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%ht ©amecock Nurses from page 1 ical problems are being mainstretuiied in to public education, the demands upon cphool nurses could increase even further, Alexander said. “The school nurse lias an autonomous position,” Alexander said. “The nurse must have a lot of knowledge about where to refer children or where to go for help in the community.” She added that a school nurse might have to repeatedly perform duties that fall outside of a nurse’s specific area of ex pertise. “The nurse is a problem solver,” Alexander said. “Sometimes, teachers send a child to the nurse every day. The nurse has to find out if a child's problem is re latcd to something that is going on at school or at home.” She believes legislation should be passed to increase funding to employ more nurses at schools. “It boils down to funding,” she said. Financial problems extend outside the nursing workforce. For low-income fam ilies, school nurses are sometimes a child’s only link to healthcare, according to Jane Anderson, a USC nursing clinical associ ate professor who teaches community health nursing “Other dian seeing a doctor in an emer gency room, the school nurse may be the only healthcare professional in touch with a child,” Anderson said In addition to providing school chil dren with immediate healthcare needs, Alexander said school nurses also provide preventative health care, such as vision and hearing screenings, and scoliosis tests. Kathy Jones Young, a USC nursing clinical instructor, said the school nurse is also responsible for working with edu cators and parents to develop teaching plans for children with special needs, as well as working directly with families. “There is an entire team effort to make sure that all issues are addressed,” Young said, adding that school nurses also refer children to healthcare outside the school system. Regardless of the added pressures, Lo quist believes school nursing might be a viable alternative for qualified individu als closer to retirement or for nurses look ing for more stable working environments. “There are definite advantages in work ing with the school system that may ap peal particularly to an aging nursing work force. Such tilings as regular hours, holidays, no weekend work and summers off are at tractive,” Loquist said. Anderson agrees that school nursing is a great career. “It is a good position for nurses who are moms,” she said. “They have a chance to be active in schools in their communi ty and have the same schedules as their children. It’s also a good opportunity for women and men in that they are making a difference in children’s lives and their ability to learn.” Anderson added that as long as learn ing is the goal of education, the nurse is a crucial part of the school system. “The school nurse plays such an im portant role in the health of a child and the child’s ability to be in the classroom to learn,” she said. Loquist agrees. “Children who aren’t healthy can’t learn.” The city/state desk can he reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. CJSC forms relationship violence program by Brandon Larrabee The Gamecock A $278,000 grant front the U.S. De partment of Justice will allow USC to better respond to relationship violence, according to officials at the universi ty's Office for Sexual Health ;pid Vio lence Prevention. The grant is being used to help run a program to deal specifically with re lationship violence, which ranges from slapping or punching to threats of vio lence or emotional abuse under univer sity guidelines. A focus of the new program is "Alternative Housing," a residential space I or students attempting to escape rela tionship violence, according to Shannon Hunnicutt, program director for Rela tionship Violence Services. The hous ing is available to both on- and off-cam pus students, Hunnicutt said. "Someone only needs to feel threat ened or to feel unsafe in their present residence," Hunnicutt said. According lo Hunnicutt, students who take advantage of the Alternative Housing option can use the housing un til they "devise a plan of action." That plan of action could include looking for a new permanent residence, attempting to get a restraining order against the stu dent's former partner, or the student sim ply taking a few days to make a decision on what to do next. Hunnicutt said the program also pro vides other services for victims of re lationship violence, including accom panying victims to the emeigency room, advocacy for victims in the criminal and student judicial systems, safety planning and academic assistance. The program also plans to start an open support group in October, which victims can join at any time. The program also helps victims of relationship violence contact universi ty offices, providing a "centralized lo cation" instead of making students vis it several separate offices, Hunnicutt said. That, according to Tricia Phaup, di rector of the Office for Sexual Health and Violence Prevention, helps students who are in a situation that "is, in and of itself, a nightmare." "We'll actually connect them, de pending on what they want to do, to the services that are out there," Phaup said. , While the university has helped stu dents get out of crisis situations in the past, according to Phaup, the new pro gram will allow the university to pro vide for residences with better condi tions. "It makes it much easier in crisis sit uations to make that transition much easier if it's needed," she said. Phaup said the program also provides for education and prevention programs on campus to help students who might commit relationship violence. "Domestic violence is a learned be havior," Phaup said. "That [preventitive education] is key to maybe changing some of these patterns of behavior that someone might have learned from their family of origin." Phaup said her office applied for the Justice Department grant in July 1999 and got word of the approval that Sep tember. After receiving full notification later, the relationship violence com mittee met in December. Through the spring and summer semesters, proto col and policies were developed, and the official policy was approved in May 2000. The office has applied for renewal of the 18-month grant and will likely hear back from the Justice Department by the end of the month, Phaup said. "We're waiting to hear on funding for the second tier," Phaup said. The Office for Sexual Health and Vi olence Prevention's Emergency number is 777-7619. The university desk can he reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Browne from page 1 proach. Brown would shrink the feder al government, end Social Security and income tax and strengthen the adher ence of government employees to-the Bill of Rights. “Browne wants to free Americans from the structure of Social Security, and allow the people to make their own decisions about their retirement,” Bab ka said. He said independent investment could return yields to investors as much as seven times what they would receive from Social Security. Also, an inde pendent investment could be inherited by an investor’s family, but unused So cial Security is absorbed back into the system, even if a person dies before ever collecting a penny. Also, Babka said Browne wanted to return to a system that accentuated states’ powers and rights. “The slates used to compete for the people through the different law and taxes they had,” Babka said. “The state you lived in used to be as impor tant as the climate. A person used to choose the state he lived in by the kind of laws and taxes it had. In that kind of system, we, as a people, would bene fit.” Browne said, if he were elected, would also repeal many gun control laws. “There are a lot of people that sup port gun control, but you don’t see any of them putting bumper stickers on their cars saying, ‘I don’t own guns.’ No one would do something that silly,” Babka said. “Criminals don’t obey gun laws. [Gun control laws] only put law-abid ing citizens at a disadvantage to pro tect themselves, their home and their families.” Browne feels “the war on drugs” and gun control laws invade personal priva cy ryore than they stop real crime. He also wants to bring all overseas U.S. troops back to America, withdraw from all international organizations and mu tual-defense treaties, and “allow other countries to manage their own affairs.” Browne would aiso end the war on drugs, which, Babka said, has turned our inner cities into a war zone. This would involve legalizing many currently out lawed drugs. “Harry Browne does not endorse die use or drugs, nor does he use them,” Bab ka said. “However, he believes you have the responsibility to run your own life.” The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockdtydesk@hotmail.com. LIFETIME MEMBER CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE CLUB 24 Hr. office #(803) 748-9171 Twenty-Six Years of trusted service to the university community. 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