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Core progran Hy .UI)ITII NIEWIADOMSKI USC's bid for federal funds to assists in building the $2 million Williams-Brice Nursing Facility has been approved, but ground breaking ceremonies will not begin until the amount of funding is known, according to M2jorie E. Sanderson, dean of the College of Nursing. Legislation for federal funding was provided by the Nurse Training Act of 1971 which awards funds competitively on the basis of need, program offerings and projected trends for the future of the school. The key issue, Dean Sanderson said, "is how up-to-date * .'-. M :. a FAT th lsrosan ut Slook t e "athim ' toD Sf his personal choice, e Snd.out ha - 1324 MAIN -m ~ Faiher's Day is J z revelant 0i irsIg s is the program in preparing people to meet with the health problems of today?" Planning for the five-story structure began in January 1971, when USC received a gift of $500,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Martha Williams Brice designated for the construction of a new College of Nursing farility. The complex which will displace the Presbyterian Student Center on the corner of Green and Pickens streets, will house the associate, baccalaureate and master's degree nursing programs. It replaces facilities in Carolina Coliseum and McCutchen House L.C. Uphouse & Com any EFFERSON SQUAR SUITE 315 803-254-1379 Full Marketing 29ement Financial Se ERLY ADV es with a touch of genius les, the emphatic ones, y patterned ones. To be e the one tie that won't sy". And will look like very day he wears it. lirom 1td. 252-0043 une 18th. chool fu and adds audio-tutorial labs, behavioral labs, expanded office and classroom space and an auditorium. The new facility will operate on the philosophy of being "where the ideal of commitment to service is strengthened," Dean Sanderson said. In keeping with the spirit of renovation and expansion, the College is also revamping its curriculum which according to l)ean Sanderson, "is now directed toward the involvement of patient and family in health care problems" in contrast to the traditional view of taking care of a sick patient. 3 t E rvlces [ICE: 0O * nds ap The new curriculum will com >ine old concepts with those elevant to the problems of modern ociety and eliminate much of the luplication of subject matter found n the old curriculum. Instead of reaking courses into traditional types" of nursing such as 'ediatric, Medical-Surgical etc., vhich often repeated iasic prin iples in nursing the cores will enter around nursing relative to amilial structure and develop r ent. Only 25 per cent of Regis calaureate degrees. The cores are: the growing amily. including children up to ige ten; the maturing family, ncluding a period up until the -hildren leave home: the aging amily including people from their orties and fifties until their death nd clinical practice with each age roup. The core courses are upper division courses which can only be taken after lower level requirements, including courses in arts and sciences and an in roduction to clinical nursing taken he summer following the sop iomore year, are completed. students will take three hours of Alective credit with each core, Ahich Dean Sanderson "en :ourages them to consider as a ninor." Each semester's studies will nclude four main areas of study; he growth and development and ealth maintenance of each core; >athology, characteristic disease patterns of each core; nursing rocesses -- theories that relate to athological conditions in that age roup and practice in providing are and using the skills learned in ther courses. Even in pre-admission in Ph ! Studeni TOES 5 P.M. 'til SPEC STEAK I $1 The best steak at the besti potato or French fries, tossi COME AS YOU AR E 548 KNOX A BBOT T BUSH RIVER ROA 4510 DEVINE= STREE proved terviews, Dean Sanderson said, "We're encouraging all our girls to set their sights on graduate study. Only 25 per cent of Registered Nurses hold baccalaureate degrees and it is from that group that you have to get nurses and with master's and doctoral degrees to provide the leadership core for nursing care in society." "Studies have shown," she said, "that nurses with the , bac calaureate degree who don't continue graduate study tend to tered Nurses hold bac carry out the same functions as the non-degree registered nurses." Non-degree RN's "are prepared to work primarily in restrictive situations such as hospitals and only 12 per cent of health care needs are met in hospitals." Dean Sanderson said. Degree RN's on the other hand, "begin to work with families groups and agencies related to health care." In ad dition, leadership in the nursing profession comes from the ranks of th: degree RNs, she said. Nurses working in health care agencies are expected to obtain a Master's degree to qualify for leadership positions. Getting a degree and moving immediately into an ad ministrative. teaching or super visory position is not the main goal, [)ean Sanderson said. "We encourage our graduates to have a period of time when they actually practice. Degree nurses have been taught things in terms of psycho social patient needs that two-year program students don't get. Manipulative skills can be taught in 10 per cent of the time of cognitive skills and to have a nursing course with depth, a person must have the academic credentials." WSA 'Night DAY Closing IAL DINNER 19 With Student ID rice. Served with baked ed salad and bread. NO TIPPING RBA DRIVE IN CAYCE D-JUST OFF 1-26 T- EAST COLUMIAA