NURSING TODAY NEWS ITEMS CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION RECEIVES $10,000 ENDOWMENT FUND Continuing Nursing Education at UBC has received a major bequest from the estate of the late Logan M. Findlay of Surrey, B.C. The estate left $10,000 to the B.C. Lung Association with the stipulation that the funds be used to support programs and projects for nursing education. The Lung Association then requested UBC Continuing Nursing Education to collaborate with it to meet the terms of this bequest. Capital from the bequest will be held in trust in an appropriately named endowment fund. Interest from the fund will be used by the division to support programs in continuing nursing education related to respiratory nursing care. Logan Findlay was born and raised in Saskatchewan, one of nine chilren of a pioneering family that originally came from Illinois. He moved to B.C. to farm in the 1940s. His own university studies were in business administration. He died in 1981 at the age of 82. The bequest was made in memory of his wife, Helen, a nurse who had worked with tuberculosis patients and who was one of the first nurses to work in a mobile x-ray van for the early detection and prevention of TB. She was actively involved with the B.C. Lung Association and participated in its activities and gatherings until her death in 1973. Edna Findlay, a relative, told the School of Nursing that Mr. Findlay left the bequest to the B.C. Lung Association as a tribute to his wife. The two had particularly valued the nursing role in prevention and appreciated the "personal touch" qualities characteristic of nurses. They placed value on education for nurses and particularly on respiratory nursing, since this was the area in which Mrs. Findlay was interested. An advisory committee with two persons from the School of Nursing and two from the Lung Association has been set up to administer the funds. The Director of Continuing Nursing Education will be one of the School's representatives on the committee. SECOND "UBC NURSING RESEARCH DAY" PLANNED Last year's UBC Nursing Research Day was such a success that faculty have planned a second similar event for Friday, May 10, 1985. The day offers an opportunity for nurses from hospitals and other School of Nursing University of British Columbia IRC 338, 2194 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Glennis Zilm, editor Volume 6, Number 3 February, 1985 Page 1 health agencies in the area to hear reports of research in nursing being carried out on the campus by nursing faculty and graduate students. Dr. Joy Winkler, chairman of the School's Research Committee, said invitations are being extended to all agencies who take students from the School and to other health facilities in the Lower Mainland. Faculty and MSN students have been asked to submit abstracts of recently completed research to the Committee. The Committee will then arrange a schedule of reports for the day. Last year, more than 165 nurses, mainly from outside the UBC community, attended. INTERNATIONAL NURSING VISITOR Dr. Rebecca Bergman, a noted international nursing visitor, will make a presentation to School of Nursing faculty and students on Friday, March 1, 1985, from 12:30 - 1:30 pm. Dr. Bergman is visiting professor, Oregon Health Sciences University, chairperson, department of nursing at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and a former vice-president of the International Council of Nurses. She is on a brief visit to Vancouver and has agreed to discuss evaluation of health care of the aged. The formal presentation will be held in ACU G279 and will be followed by a coffee session in the Faculty Lounge to allow faculty members and graduate students an opportunity to meet informally with this distinguished nursing leader. CAUSN GROUP AT UBC REVITALIZED The UBC chapter of the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing has taken on a new lease of life for the 1984-85 academic year. The group, for which membership had dwindled, now has 28 members from among the UBC faculty. Cheryl Entwistle has been named the official UBC representative to Western Region CAUSN and will chair monthly meetings at UBC. These likely will be held at noon of the first Thursday of each month. A major chore for the group will be coordination and planning for the Western RegionTJAUSN meeting to be held at UBC in February 1986. The theme sugqeted for this meeting is "Innovation in Nursing Education — The Imaginative Future." All UBC Nursing faculty are urged to take part in the group. Membership includes a subscription to Nursing Papers, the only nursing research journal to be published in Canada. Information on meetings and on membership can be obtained from Cheryl Entwistle. NURSE EDUCATORS' CONFERENCE The UBC School of Nursing was well represented in planning for the Nurse Educators' Conference scheduled for Saturday March 2, 1985. Joan Brumwell, Margaret Campbell, Roberta Hewat, Olive Simpson and page 2 Sheila Stanton were on the 16-member committee, as was MSN student Pamela Shenton. The conference, to be held at the Vancouver General Hospital Residence, provides an opportunity for nurse educators in B.C. Schools of Nursing to begin to work together to plan for baccalaureate preparation as entry to practice by the year 2000. Such preparation has been endorsed by the Canadian Nurses Association and the Registered Nurses' Association of B.C. The meeting will open with an informal wine and cheese reception and registration on Friday evening, March 1. Representatives from all schools of nursing in the province are expected to attend to share their views on issues relating to the implimentation of the position. Prof. Anne Wyness of UBC will provide the conference summary at the end of the day. UBC School of Nursing faculty members are urged to attend and to make their views known. Further information about the program can be obtained from any of the planning committee members. MORE ON MSN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS The last issue of Nursing Today provided information on two of the four scholarships awarded in the Master of Science in Nursing Program. This month, we give background on the remaining two scholarships — in case you know someone who might want to provide support to the School of Nursing and its students in this way. Unfortunately, these two MSN Scholarships are not particularly large nor self-sustaining and need a great deal more support. We hope the information provided here will stimulate interest (and principal, tool). Although graduate students welcome almost any money to assist them through the programs, these funds cannot sustain students in today's harsh financial climate. For example, the basic UBC fee for first-year graduate students in 1984-85 was about $1,820. The Mabel Johnson Scholarship in Nursing is an annual award based on interest from a fund established in 1968 from the estate of Mabel Johnson, a graduate of the class of 1928. The first award from her generous gift of $4,000 was made in 1969 and has been made each year since. The School is attempting to obtain more information about Mabel Johnson. The award in 1984 was made to Angela D. Henderson. The UBC Nursing Division Golden Jubilee Scholarship is derived from a fund started by nursing alumni and was originally intended to help a student work on the thesis during the summer rather than go to work. This fund, says Professor Emerita Beth McCann, now chairman of the Nursing Alumni Division's scholarship committee, was originally announced in 1969 at the Golden Jubilee banquet. At first, it was provided as an annual prize through funds raised by the alumni, but in 1977 it became an annual scholarship of $1,000 — although the fund did not yet have enough money to be self-sustaining. In 1983, the scholarship was endowed (meaning that the principal is invested and only the interest from the fund will be used for the scholarship). The fund at the moment contains only about $6,500. page 3 UBC NURSING STUDENTS ATTEND CUNSA CONFERENCE Five UBC nursing students attended the Canadian University Nursing Students Association (CUNSA) conference in Ottawa in early February. Leah Shapira, Gail Jeffrey, Shirla Kennedy, Julie Duhame and Daphne Covernton all report that the conference was exciting, interesting and informative. Ginette Rodger, Executive Director of the Canadian Nurses Association, gave a thought-provoking keynote address on emerging trends of specialization in nursing practice, the theme of this year's conference. Dr. Josephine Flaherty, principal nursing officer with Health and Welfare Canada, also spoke with humor and humility on the profession of nursing. The UBC delegates played an active role in discussion during the regional and national business meetings. The organization seems to be moving ahead, having just become incorporated and instituted a new constitution. The Association is begining to concern itself with social issues. The delegates said informal interaction with other students was probably one of the most valuable parts of the conference, and praised the opportunities to compare programs and facilities. Delegates now will bring reports on activities back to UBC and hope to encourage more students to attend next year's conference in Fredericton. — Daphne Covernton BSN Student and CUNSA Delegate FACULTY NEWS Connie Canam was interviewed by CBC Television during the International Congress on Women's Health Issues held in Halifax last fall. The taped interview has since appeared on the national CBC network as part of the "Women and Work" series. Cheryl Entwistle attended the conference and annual meeting of Western Region, Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing in Edmonton February 17-19. As representative of the UBC Branch of Western Region CAUSN, she extended the formal invitation for the next annual meeting and conference to be held at UBC in February 1986. Virginia Hayes has taken a special 50 per cent joint appointment as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pediatric Oncology with the B.C. Children's Fospital. The appointment, which began January 1, is for a six-month term. She is continuing her faculty responsibilities at UBC on a part-time basis. Dan Jones and Suzanne Flannery were guest speakers at the January meeting of the RNABC's Nursing Research Interest Group in Vancouver. They reported on their recent research project on "How Head Nurses View Students." Marilyn Mardiros presented a paper on primary health care for Canada's indigenous peoples at the Sixth Annual Congress of the Pan page 4 // American Federation of Nursing Professionals in Managua, Nicaragua in December. Helen Niskala, Carole Robinson and Sally Thorne were speakers at the "Research and You" conference in Edmonton February 8-9. The conference was sponsored by the Nursing Research and Scholarly Activities Committee of the University of Alberta Hospitals. The papers were, respectively, "A Strategy to Assess Competencies and s, Skills Valid in Psychiatric Nursing," "Humanizing Health Care ( with Chronic Illness is Involved" and "The Family Cancer Experience." Joy Winkler has recently been awarded funding under a Social Sciences and Humanities "New Faculty" grant for research into stress in native Indians' experience in communicating with nurses in urban health care settings. IN PRINT "Health Needs Researched" (an article describing the coordinated research program on health of immigrant women of JOAN ANDERSON, HELEN ELFERT and JUDY LYNAM). RNABC News, Vol. 17, No. 1, January/February 1985, pp. 20-23. Lesley Weatherston, ELAINE CARTY, ALISON RICE, Dorothy Tier. "Hospital-based Midwifery: Meeting the Needs of Childbearing Women." The Canadian Nurse, Vol. 81, No. 1, January 1985, pp. 35-37. CLARISSA P. GREEN. "An Exchange of Feelings." Disabled USA, 1984 (2), pp. 8-10. ROBERTA J. HEWAT. "More Effective Education for Breastfeeding Women." The Canadian Nurse, Vol. 81, No. 1, January 1985, pp. 38-40. CAROL JILLINGS. "viewing the Patient's Psychosocial Needs." Critical Care Nurse, Vol. 4, No. 6, November/December 1984, p. 36-38. GLORIA JOACHIM. "Acupressure: A Self-Help Technique for Relieving Headache Pain." The Canadian Nurse, Vol. 80, No. 11, December 1984, pp. 38-40. J.E. Knox and VIRGINIA HAYES. "Hospital Related Stress in Parents of Children with Cancer." Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cancer Nursing. Melbourne, Australia, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1984, pp. 102-108. GEMMA VAN AMELSVOORT JONES and ELLEN ZEISS (4th-year students). "Encouraging Reminiscing in the Institutional Setting." Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 1984, pp. 6-7. GLENNIS ZILM. Book Review. Canada's Mental Health, Vol. 32, No. 4, December 1984, p. 19. page 5 COMING EVENTS Thursday, March 28, 1985 — Research Colloquium sponsored by the School of Nursing's Research Committee will hear a presentation by Clarissa P. Green, principal investigator for "Project Family Focus." Her address will be "Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway?" and will involve an overview of how families reorganize daily routines and activities after the diagnosis of cancer is made. Saturday, April 20, 1985 — 3rd Annual Nursing Research Workshop, sponsored by the Nursing Research Interest Group of the RNABC- Keynote speaker is Dr. Joan Anderson, professor, School of Nursing, UBC, on "Trends in Nursing Research." Other speakers include Ruth Elliott, currently on leave from the School of Nursing to complete her doctorate, and Dr. Steve Milstein, PhD, a --consultant in experimental design, measurement and evalution of resarch. Further information from NRIG or through Margaret Klinger at^228-7439. May 1-3, 1985 — Annual Meeting of the Registered Nurses' Association of B.C. Theme of the meeting is "Are You Ready for the Challenge?" Keynote address will be given by Carole Brown, RN, MN, former clinical nurse specialist at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. She will speak on "Does the Grange Enquiry Affect You?" Meeting will be held in Vancouver at the Holiday Inn Harborside. Full information from the RNABC. CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th National Transcultural Nursing Society Conference, to be held October 9-11, 1985, in San Diego, has issued a call for abstracts. These should relate to the conference theme: "Transcultural Nursing — A Futuristic Field of Health Care." Deadline for abstracts is March 30, 1985. Abstracts are invited by the sponsors of the International Nursing Research Conference being planned for Edmonton Alberta in May 1986. Theme for the conference is "New Frontiers in Nursing Research" and abstracts must be submitted to the Review Panel at the University of Alberta between April 1, 1985 and August 31, 1985. A new professional journal, The Journal for Pediatric Nursing, to be edited through the School of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles, has issued a call for manuscripts. Articles and papers should apply to professionals who work with the ill and/or hospitalized child. Information related to these calls for abstracts, papers or manuscripts is available on the Faculty Bulletin Board or, if necessary, you may call Glennis Zilm at 228-2922 or 531-3606. * * * * * Deadline for the April issue of Nursing Today is March 26, 1985.