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The official newsletter of the Utah Nurses Association November, December 2014, January 2015 Volume 23 • Number 4

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Quarterly circulation approximately 30,000 to all RNs, LPNs, and Student Nurses in Utah.

UNA 100 Year CelebrationOur 100th anniversary….. The Utah Nurses Association

formed in January – 1914….and we met for the first time October 19, 1914…nearly one hundred years before our Centennial Banquet on October 9, 2014. Our banquet was well-attended with all of our award recipients present. We are honored to name the following outstanding nurses and their accomplishments. Please congratulate them when you see them! Or drop an email!!! Thanks to all who nominated candidates for these awards. (To be nominated was, in itself an award from the nurses who know you best.) The award decisions were difficult. We all should recognize the great nurses we work with where ever we are! Many thanks to those who volunteered to serve on the Award Committee: Amber Jackson (Chair), Nicole Lynch and Karen de la Cruz.

Vickie Baer - Outstanding Nurse Researcher (Clinical)(McKay-Dee Hospital)

Christopher De Haan - Emerging Nurse Leader (LDS Hospital)

Kevin Foy - Outstanding Wasatch Front Clinician (VA Medical Center)

Evelyn Jorgensen - Outstanding Nurse Historian (Retired Brigham Young University)

Sandra Mangum - Outstanding International Nurse Volunteer (Retired Brigham Young University)Gigi Marshall - Outstanding Nurse Educator

(Academic) (Roseman University of Health Sciences)

I. Marlene Summers - Outstanding Nurse Educator (Clinical)(McKay-Dee Hospital)

Susan Thornock - Established Nurse Leader (Weber State University School of Nursing)

Barbara Wilson - Outstanding Nurse Researcher (Academic)(University of Utah College of Nursing)

Nu Nu Chapter of STTI - Nursing Group with Outstanding Community Service (Weber State University)

Paula Julander - Lifetime Nursing Award (Retired citizen of Utah!)

Eleven Honored Nurses: (L to R) Evelyn Jorgensen, Sandra Mangum, Paula Julander, Chris De Haan, Gigi Marshall, Barbara Wilson, Kevin Foy, Amy Stegen, Susan Thornock, Marlene Summers, Vickie Baer

Paula Julander accepts Lifetime Nursing Achievement Award presented by her colleague Sheila Bittle

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2014 BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresident Kathleen Kaufman, MSN, RNPresident Elect Catherine Coverston, RN, PhD First Vice President Jody Wolfe, RN, BSN, MBASecond Vice President Peggy H. Anderson, DNP, MS, RNSecretary Alana Jacobs, PhD, APRNTreasurer Karen de la Cruz, RN, MSN, AACNP/FNP

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President’s MessageKathleen Kaufman MS, RN

This will be my last message to you as your president. I have been honored to serve as your leader for three of the past four years. I have learned a great deal about the state, our fellow nurses, and the recently reorganized A m e r i c a n N u r s e s Association, our parent organization. We have made some progress over the past two years in considering and addressing notable issues concerning nurses, nursing, and health care in Utah.

The Board of the UNA has elected to enter a new organizational model by joining with neighboring state nurses associations in Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho to form the Western States Multi-State Division. Together we will grow membership, share continuing education ventures, and learn to be ever more effective in addressing key legislative issues in each state. We have also initiated contacts with nursing leadership in specialty organizations to build stronger collaborations when needed. We have made some bylaws changes that should let us operate the UNA more effectively over distance. If you have had an interest in serving in this fall’s House of Delegates, we have asked you to contact our office to sign up for a new long distance House of Delegates through the auspices

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of the Utah Telehealth Network. We will report on the success of this effort in the next Utah Nurse.

During the past two years, the Government Relations Committee (GRC) has become more active and we have held two Nurses’ Day at the Legislature to inform and educate nurses and student nurses about current legislation. We reviewed, monitored, and, in most cases took a position on fourteen bills during the 2014 General Legislative Session. We have also taken a position in support of Medicaid expansion in Utah. The Governor’s Healthy Utah Plan is coming closer to fruition at this writing; if adopted this will give better health care access to our poorest citizens than they have ever had. We are always eager to have UNA members’ input on the GRC. Email me to join the committee or contact Lisa at the UNA office. Regularly check the legislative tab on our homepage to see what is developing in legislation and in health policy in Utah.

This year we have celebrated our association’s 100th anniversary, culminating in the banquet and conference held in early October. Please see the article and photo story on p. 5. During the banquet we honored nurses for many achievements with awards for outstanding work.

Your president attends MANY meetings to keep a finger on the pulse of health care in Utah. Interim session committees, the Health Care Reform Taskforce and SB55 Taskforce meetings, Utah Action Coalition, Utah Organization of Nurse Leaders, and Medicaid Coalition meetings have made for a busy summer with lots of note-taking. I will continue to attend many of these as well as legislative committee meetings during the interim. Thanks to all of you who attended the July 17th Health Care Reform Taskforce for the first viewing of the video, “Entitled to Life.” This seven-minute clip encompassed several powerful personal stories and professional observations about the need for Medicaid expansion.  I identified about 11 nurses in the audience. Thank you for coming and bearing witness to the importance of the Medicaid expansion issue. I hope you learned something worthwhile about the topic. UNA members will be receiving updates as the legislative session gets underway this month. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, if good people sit back and do nothing, evil will win the day.

By the time you read this, Catherine Coverston will be President of the Utah Nurses Association. She will take office in January 2015. You will hear from me periodically because I will continue to serve as the chair of the UNA’s Government Relations Committee.and serve as your eyes and ears in the Utah State Legislature. Contact me if you want to be on my special policy issue email: Kathleenonpolicy@yahoo.com.

Thanks to all UNA members who have contacted me with your ideas and comments. Your contributions have always been valued. You remind me that the nurses of Utah nurses do care about patients, nurses and health care in our pretty great state! Please keep up the communication.

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ContentThe Official Publication of the Utah Nursing Association

1 UNA 100 Year Celebration

2 President’s Message 4 A Banquet to Celebrate a Century 5 Centennial Conference Offered Something for Everyone

6 ANA’s New President Takes the Helm, Lays out Priorities

7 Nurses Day at Rio Tinto

8 Nursing Grant-in-Aid Scholarships, Utah Nurses Foundation - Guidelines

9 In Memoriam

10 Membership Application

11 History of Nursing

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UNA 100 Year Celebration

A good time was had by all at the Utah Nurses Association’s Centennial Banquet on October 9th. Approximately 100 guests filled the Ballroom at the Doubletree Inn out on Wiley Post Way. Five former presidents of the UNA joined us this evening. History marched down the hall on laminated placards from every decade of the 20th century. A variety of unique nursing uniforms from the last century set the tone in the ballroom.

Brigham Young University donated five of the best of their collection of historic uniforms – the oldest was from 1909. This long skirted and long sleeved dark blue dress with a starched white bib apron represents the early decade of professional nursing in Utah. Modern nurses and nursing students got their photos taken alongside these relics of earlier eras in Utah nursing.

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Midway through the banquet, UNA President Kathleen Kaufman offered a succinct and colorful history of the association from its inception to the present. Illustrations of early founders, early headquarters, and early challenges flickered across the screen as Kaufman told attendees about the motivations and challenges that faced the young organization back in 1914.

In 1914, the lack of licensure in Utah had allowed those not competent to be licensed in neighboring states to come to Utah to work. Rose Karous Peterson wrote the first bill for nursing licensure and got it passed through both houses of the Utah Legislature in less than two weeks—a record efficiency that may never have been met since. Ongoing healthcare concerns over the succeeding century have kept the UNA in the midst of much legislation.

Following the history presentation came the awarding of honors to eleven outstanding nurses in Utah. These nurses have gone far beyond the requirements of their actual jobs to make impacts on many, many areas from clinical and academic research and education to international humanitarian missions; and from local service to community to exemplary clinical care of patients. (Please see the article and photo on page one for details.)

The final award, a surprise to the recipient, was a Lifetime Nursing Achievement Award presented to Paula F. Julander for her sustained leadership as President and then later as Executive Director in the Utah Nurses Association; and

her long-term leadership in the Utah Legislature, first as a Representative and then as a Senator. Julander played an integral role in the significant revision of the Nurse Practice Act in the 1990s and the development and writing of the Nurse Compact Act which serves 24 states today. Paula Julander successfully followed 19 years of clinical nursing with an inspired career in government. Paula’s husband, Rod, was present to celebrate her award.

The banquet ended in the announcement of the winners of the opportunity drawing. A total of $564.25 was raised for scholarships in the fun drawing for baskets and items ranging from a framed print of Georgia O’Keefe’s Red Poppies to a scrumptious basket of Kneader’s treats and baskets of Megaplex items, hot sauces, fishing items, jams and jellies, and history of nursing books. Fun was had by all!

Past and present UNA presidents: Paula Julander, Donna Eliason, Dr. Donna Richards, Marianne Craven, Carol Ann Imhoff, and Kathleen Kaufman

Kathleen Kaufman MS, RN

Cadet Corps (1940s) and student nurse uniforms (1950s,1960s)

Rose Karous Peterson

History of nursing books in drawing

Vickie Baer receives Outstanding Clinical

Researcher Award for her work with neonates.

Evelyn Jorgensen receives the Outstanding

Historian Award for a lifetime of nursing

history!

Dr. Sandra Mangum receives the Outstanding

International Nurse Volunteer Award for

her extensive work in Guatemala and Mexico.

Display of 1949 Dee Hospital nurse, Jane

(Rocky) Lorray Rockwell Knowlton, donated by

her granddaughter, Jessica Lewis-Caporal.

I. Marlene Summers receives the Outstanding Clinical Nurse Educator Award for her inspirational work at

McKay-Dee Hospital.

Christopher De Haan receives the Emerging Nurse Leader Award for

his innovations and reorganization of the Behavioral Health Unit at LDSH.

Kevin Foy receives Outstanding Wasatch Front Clinician for his EBP

work throughout the VA and in the ED.

Gigi Marshall receives the Outstanding Academic Nurse Educator Award for

her teaching at Roseman University of Health Sciences.

Dr. Susan Thornock receives the Established Nurse Leader Award for her leadership at Weber State

University School of Nursing.

Dr. Barbara Wilson - Outstanding Academic Nurse Researcher Award for her work with women’s health and her outreach to teach direct care nurses the research process.

Amy Stegen accepts the Nursing Group with Outstanding Community Service

for the Nu Nu Chapter of STTI.

November, December 2014, January 2015 Utah Nurse • Page 5

The Centennial Conference of the Utah Nurses Association was held on October 10th. The day began with keynote speakers Dr. Elaine Sorensen Marshall of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and Dr. Barbra Mann Wall of the University of Pennsylvania who presented “Religion and Nursing in Early Utah.” They discussed the differences and many similarities between early nurses who came from and served the Latter Day Saints and the Catholics of the late 1800s in Utah.

Following the keynote, the bulk of the conference day included excellent

podium presentations on a wide range of modern nursing in the areas of clinical practice, health care policy and legislation, nursing education and leadership in nursing. There was literally something there for everyone.

During the policy and education breakout session, Francine Jensen from Utah Valley University facilitated a panel presentation of her students looking at the integration of nursing theory into their young nursing practice. More people should have heard them – these five students did an outstanding job of looking at how theory can direct clinical decision making.

We heard from Karla Huntsman from Ameritech about the elephant in the room – proprietary nursing education in the 21st century-what it is and what it is not. Vickie Baer presented results of her exciting study on decreasing the use of blood draws (and therefore decreasing the need for transfusions) on VLBW neonates by using placental blood for diagnostic studies. Dr. Beth Cole and Joan Gallegos addressed the need for more nurses to serve in boardrooms while Deb Penney looked at the barriers that still exist between many health care providers, including nurses, and the needs of their Muslim patients. Angie Adams presented the implications of establishing pre-transport training for local nurses to address the challenges of interfacility patient transports. Mindfulness in patient care and the transformational charge nurses’ effects on patient care were presented by Renee Kraczek and Kevin McEwan respectively.

Sarah Babcock Homer DNP, CPNP provided a blueprint for battling pediatric obesity that adapts to children and their parents’ learning needs. Teaching how to explain portion control, demonstrate child appropriate exercises and educate parents are all billable to insurance for treating pediatric obesity. For more information on how to implement this program in your practice; please contact sarah.homer@ihomer.net.

Mary Helen Stricklin MSN, RNC presented the implementation of a nursing professional development program at Intermountain Health Care (Southwest Region) for bedside registered nurses. Over a year’s time--each nurse works through a packet with a point system that awards one of four monetary levels as well as recognition for activities. All are compiled and presented in a professional portfolio. This has been a successful process so far for fostering professional development among IHC’s nurses. This is only a taste of the excellent presentations of the day.

Posters were also presented on numerous nursing initiatives. A sampling of multiple studies includes campaigns for informing the public about stroke symptoms, the history of nursing informatics in Utah and the frequency of errors in novice nurses during interrupted medication administration. Dr. Sharon Dingman presented nurse caring enhancements using The Caring Model –with modules to improve nurse communication and patient satisfaction.

Dr. Pam Cipriano, President of the American Nurses Association directed conference attendees to the future in her plenary session address on ”The Future of Nursing Practice in the United States.” Cipriano declared that “this is a unique time, we are changing our self-view – everyone CAN lead. Nurses want to lead in transforming health care in America!” Cipriano went on to say that nurses need to practice to the full extent of their education, and should be full partners with physicians and other healthcare professionals in redesigning health care in the United States. She noted that 2014-2016 strategic goals of the American Nurses Association are to promote a healthy work environment, develop healthy nurses and establish safe staffing as priorities in health care. She encouraged all interested to become involved in the new nursing professional issues panel of the ANA concerning RN scope of practice.

We closed the conference with an address by Robin Schaeffer, Executive Director of the Arizona Nurses Association. Schaeffer is also the leader of the Western States Multi-State Division. She spoke to the current and future collaboration between Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Colorado in the areas of continuing education and conference planning to offer more to nurses in all four states through streamlining offerings and through professional nurses’ cooperation. This concluded our trip from the past across 100 years and into the future of nursing in Utah.

Great thanks goes out to the Utah Nurses Association Board of Directors, to our office manager Lisa Trim, and especially to Dr. Sandra Haak, our Conference Director for the multifaceted success of our centennial celebration and conference!

UNA 100 Year CelebrationCentennialConferenceOfferedSomethingforEveryone!

Kathleen Kaufman MS, RN and Angela K. York SN

Keynote speakers Dr. Barbra Mann Wall and Dr. Elaine Sorensen Marshall

Joan Gallegos and Dr. Beth Cole discuss nurses in the boardroom.

Dr. Sandra Haak, Conference Chair

Kathleen Kaufman and Peg Brown present legislative update.

Active poster session discussion

Networking at lunch in atrium

Poster presenters Justin Rhees and Carolyn Scheese

Registration table with Karen de la Cruz, Peggy Anderson, Lisa Trim and

Stephen Miller

Exhibit Hall

(L to R) Robin Schaeffer, Dr. Pam Cipriano, Kathleen Kaufman, and Carol Stevens (President of Arizona Nurses Association)

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Utah Nurses Association welcomes new ANA President Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN! Cipriano was elected at the ANA Membership Assembly on June 14 to a two-year term. Here is a little more about President Cipriano and her hopes for the future of ANA and the profession.

Getting to Know ANA’s New PresidentPrior to becoming ANA president, Cipriano served as

senior director for health care management consulting at Galloway Advisory by iVantage. She also has held faculty and health system leadership positions at the University of Virginia (UVA) since 2000.

Cipriano is known nationally as a strong advocate for health care quality, and serves on a number of boards and committees for high-profile organizations, including the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission. She was the 2010-11 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine.

A longtime ANA member, Cipriano has served two terms on the ANA Board of Directors and was the recipient of the association’s 2008 Distinguished Membership Award. She acted as the inaugural editor-in-chief of American Nurse Today, ANA’s official journal, from 2006-14, and is currently a member of the Virginia Nurses Association.

Vision for the Future of ANAIn a recent conversation with The American Nurse,

Cipriano shared her vision for ANA by outlining three priorities for her presidency.

First, she will focus on ANA’s “core strengths,” which include: political advocacy, efforts around safe staffing and healthy work environments, and fighting for nurses’ rights to control their profession and practice to the full extent of their education and licensure.

Second, Dr. Cipriano will lead membership growth and retention. “I strongly believe in the old saying, ‘There’s strength in numbers,’” she said.

The third priority for her first term includes positioning nurses to exert greater influence in the transformation of health care. “It’s very important for ANA to make sure nurses are in prime positions and key decision-making groups so our voice is there at every turn,” she said.

Finally, what does President Cipriano want members around the country to keep in mind? Optimism. “We are making a number of strides,” she said. “We’re going to need all of our members...if we want to truly achieve a new direction in health care.”

To read more about President Cipriano, please visit: www.theamericannurse.org/index.php/2014/06/30/meet-anas-new-president/

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The first Nurses Day at Rio Tinto Stadium on September 6th was a lot of fun! Between 100 and 200 tickets were sold to nurses for the match. We shared the pre-game banner ceremonies with the very athletic, very young, and VERY enthusiastic Murray Soccer Club members. While the banner-carrying practice was really easy, the high wind that came up as we took the banner to the field at game time gave everyone a workout to keep the banner from literally flying away. We did manage to keep it in place for the national anthem.

Real Salt Lake did their part and defeated the FC Dallas team 2:1 with a lot of vigor, great footwork, and some very close calls. Quite a number of our group had never been to a soccer match. Even the dedicated football fans among us found the game to be fascinating. The points may not be many, but the game was continuously interesting. We are already planning for a Nurses Day at Rio Tinto next year….maybe during Nurses Week!

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Pre-game banner ceremony during national anthem

Clearing off pre-match activities at Rio Tinto

from the Board and Staff of the Utah Nurses Association

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INMEMORIAM

Sophia Mahleres Hayes passed away on June 5, 2014. She graduated from Holy Cross School of Nursing and worked as a registered nurse.

John David Krinke passed away May 30, 2014. He graduated from Westminster College with a nursing degree and was an RN at St. Marks Hospital and Intermountain Medical Center.

Naomi Margarete Erickson passed away on June 6, 2014. She graduated from nursing school and worked at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Later in life, she worked for the Red Cross and traveled throughout the state of Utah doing blood drives.

Montess Beverly Mills Gregerson passed away May 18, 2014. She graduated from the University of Utah and received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing. She worked and served St. Marks and LDS Hospitals for years.

Sidnee Colosimo Krajnc passed away June 21, 2014. She graduated from the C.E.U. Nursing program in 1975. She had a kind and loving heart which was demonstrated best through her 30 years of caring for patients in her nursing career.

Janet Elizabeth Gerber Gibson passed away June 25, 2014. Janet attended nursing school in Mesa AZ and Salt Lake City. She worked at hospitals in the Salt Lake valley, including the LDS Hospital, Cottonwood Hospital and the VA.

Moneta Fritz passed away July 3, 2014. She graduated from BYU with a nursing degree and worked many years at St. Marks Hospital. Moneta had a passion for learning and knowledge

Jean Loretta Blackburn passed away July 1, 2014. After Jean graduated from High School, she went directly into nursing school where she graduated in 1949. A visiting Doctor recruiting nurses for the Park City Miners’ Hospital was impressed with her skills and invited Jean to come to Utah she began her nursing career at the Miners’ Hospital. In time, she began working at Holy Cross Hospital in SLC where she was a surgical nurse for Dr. Alan Crandall. Her career spanned some 5 decades of selflessly giving of herself to others.

Karen Esther Skiby passed away June 25, 2014. Karen put herself through nursing school, graduating in 1980 from Weber State with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing with Honors. Then in 1987 she received her Bachelors of Science in nursing from the University of Utah.

Joyce Marie Kelley Stapley passed away July 8, 2014. She graduated from Salt Lake Nursing Academy. Joyce worked many years as a nurse at SL County, U of U, Shriners and Cottonwood Hospitals and retired after working many years for the Salt Lake Health Department where she immunized countless children.

Eleanor Sage passed away July 12, 2014. She graduated from St. Anthonys Nursing College in 1950. Eleanor and Terry settled in Lehi, Utah in 1971. She started working at American Fork Hospital in 1972 and retired in 1989.

Susan Fitts Martin passed away August 1, 2014. Susan worked at St. Mark’s Hospital for over 30 years and received the 2013 Humanitarian of the Year Award

Barbara Williams passed away July 22, 2014. Barbara graduated from the Univ. of Utah School of Nursing. She worked at the LDS Hospital as a head operating room nurse until she retired.

Glenae Turley passed away August 18, 2014. She achieved a fire science degree from UVU and spent nearly 20 fulfilling years as a Paramedic/Firefighter for West Jordan, South Jordon, AirMed and 15 years with Murray City, which became her extended family. She was honored with many awards and recognitions for her service, expertise and lifesaving skills. As if being a paramedic/firefighter was not enough, she also earned her Registered Nurse license, an accomplishment of which she was very proud.

Elsie Sanchez passed away August 15, 2014. Elsie was a nurse and had a gift for caring for others. She touched the lives of many people.

Pam R. Sainsbury Ruoti passed away August 23, 2014. She graduated from Weber State College with a degree in Nursing in 1986. After graduation, she worked at University of Utah Hospital until she retired in 2010. Her entire nursing career was spent caring for moms and babies. She loved working in the nursery the most.

Stephanie Chytraus Pond passed away July 29, 2014. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Utah State University. Stephanie later went on to complete her Nursing degree. Stephanie began her 18-year nursing career at the University of Utah Hospital and was an asset to her Labor and Delivery team with her bilingual skills and her remarkably fun, outgoing, and empathetic personality. She later became a head charge nurse of Labor and Delivery.

Brenda Christiansen passed away August 26, 2014. Brenda obtained a B.S. degree from BYU and a Bachelors degree in Nursing from Weber State. As a nurse she worked at several hospitals, home health care and hospice.

Winifred Margaret Thomas passed away September 10, 2014 at the age of 90. Winnie returned to the University of Tulsa to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1978. She worked as a nurse at Primary Children’s Medical Center from 1985-2005, she retired at the age of 82.

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Kathleen Kaufman MS, RN

Lobbyists and executive directors from many of the states gathered to discuss nursing issues that are affecting all of us. Key issues included scope of practice for all APRNs, staffing bills in some states, unlicensed personnel performing patient care activities, community paramedics, and advanced home health aides.

Susan Reinhard, representing AARP, presented the details of their proposed Family Caregiver Model – a proposal that had many concrete objections related to the accepted best practice of nursing. Michelle Artz, Director of ANA Government Affairs, also presented the concept of the “National Nurse.” This is the idea of having one nurse designated as the National Nurse – the proposal includes the idea of merging this title with the Chief Nurse of the Public Health Service. There are both practical and philosophical issues with this suggestion.

The final day of the meeting, we listened to and discussed biosimilars, medical marijuana and the ACA Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion. The discussions of all these topics has been invigorating and gives attendees information to embrace or to fight the various issues on each of our state stages. This was a valuable meeting with input from many colleagues. Join a further discussion of these many topics with the Government Relations Committee online. Contact Kathleen Kaufman by email to take part in this discussion (kathleenkaufman2008@gmail.com or Kathleenonpolicy@yahoo.com). Nurses can make a difference in policy and legislation, if we but get educated and take part! It is not rocket science….keep your patients’ best interests at heart and in mind!

The UNA is a prime advocate for nurses and for patients here in Utah. As important issues come up, we will be able to contact our members more effectively in the next year through use of a new program called “Roll Call.” Kathleen Kaufman is going to be training on this program and will share its benefits with all UNA members who seek to stay informed. (In other words, it will possibly be more articulate and comprehensive yet reasonably brief compared to some of the policy letters I have sent you in the past! Look for it in 2015 - KK)

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History of Nursing

CJ Ewell APRN and Kathleen Kaufman MS, RN

(This is the first History of Nursing in Utah column. We will publish appropriate articles as they become available. If you know of an interesting piece of history, contact the UNA office. We are interested!)

Vernal:Quiet and serene, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church has

since 1912 stood just west of an older building known as St. Paul’s Lodge. The Lodge was built to house girls from outlying rural areas who came to Vernal for their education – a unique mission for the building. A large two-story brick building with “electric lights, a furnace and a bath,” it must have been quite modern for the period. There was a large, cheerful living room with its own fireplace. Room and board cost 4 dollars a week. Non-resident students were charged one dollar for the use of bath, library and piano. The Lodge also played an important role in the development of early health care in Uintah County.

During World War I, the Lodge was a receiving station for wounded veterans returning to their Uintah Basin homes. The lodge was later sold to become one of the two privately owned hospitals in Vernal.

In 1920 Samuel and Sadie Campbell established a hospital at their home at 191 North 500 East. They moved the hospital in 1929 to St. Paul’s Lodge. Sadie had practiced as a midwife in the community and then attended the Chicago School of Nursing, becoming a Registered Nurse. In 1931 the hospital again moved to another location on 500 East, which included living quarters. In 1934 Jane Murray took over the hospital and named it Valley Hospital. In 1936 Dr. Farley Gilbert bought Valley Hospital. After a remodel, it was renamed Valley Hospital and Clinic. One of the new features was an X-ray machine, the first in the area.

During the same period, in 1925, Nettie Richens opened a private hospital on Main Street. These two hospitals later merged in the lodge building to form the Uintah Basin Hospital. The porch was enclosed to become a business office and waiting room. A small room (24’ by 24’) at the back became the surgery because it had two lighting sources – two clear windows. Later children would recall the surgery light in the back room glaring down upon them during Sunday School Class.

A delivery room was faced with a hall on which shelves held baskets for babies. Patients were housed on the second floor. “They were pulled up a steep ramp over the staircase with a pulley system to the second floor. Word

HealthCareHistoryVignettes….fromtheRoadinRuralUtahhas it that at least one unlucky patient slid right back down the ramp!” The local physician, Dr. F. G. Eskelson lived next door to the hospital.

In 1936 Doctors Clark and Bullock opened a ‘modern’ hospital in the upper floor of the Uintah Bank Building. This merged with the Uintah Basin Hospital in 1939. Uintah County bought the hospital in 1941 and renamed it Uintah County Hospital. Coming out of the Great Depression and as the nation entered World War II, the county struggled to maintain the hospital.

The mid 1940s brought a windfall in the form of a $500 trust from the estate of Wong Sing, a Chinese businessman in the area. To raise the remainder of the funds needed for a new building, some interesting strategies were used. The most unusual was the installation of 37 illegal slot machines in area businesses, something that local law enforcement and county officials ignored. The slots were placed with the understanding that all proceeds would go to the hospital building fund. Perhaps balancing that funding stream, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints donated the building site at 150 West 100 North.

The new building was completed in 1949 and the old Lodge was sold back to the Episcopal Church. It has served as a rectory and parish hall ever since. St Paul’s is now listed in the National Register as the oldest religious building in continuous use in Vernal. Renovations over the past twenty years have preserved as many historic aspects as possible. (Information significantly borrowed from “A History of St. Paul’s Parish House” brochure).

In 1980 the hospital expanded again and in 1981 was purchased by Health Corporation of America. It was then named Ashley Valley Medical Center, and continues to serve residents of Vernal and the surrounding areas.

Fort Duchesne:In the 1880s a hospital was established at Fort

Duchesne to serve Army personnel and members of the Ute and Ouray Tribes. This facility was not open to the public and closed in 1912 when the Army left the area. In 1914 the facility reopened to serve Tribal members. In 1937 a modern facility was built by the Works Progress Administration. This private hospital continued to serve the Fort Duchesne community for some years before finally closing.

Roosevelt:In 1914 Doctors Morton and Browning opened a 12 bed

private hospital in Roosevelt. Located in the eastern part of Duchesne County, this was the only hospital between Vernal and the Wasatch Front. 1937 saw Duchesne County anxious to have a public hospital. Fundraising began and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints provided 60% of the funding needed to build the Duchesne County

Hospital at the corner of 200 North and Main Street in Roosevelt. Duchesne County raised the other 40%. This building served the community for over 30 years, but demand finally outgrew the facility. In 1969 a new building was erected at 250 West 300 North and Duchesne County Hospital moved. In 1984 the building was enlarged and renamed Uintah Basin Medical Center (UBMC). In 2012 clinic offices were added to the building. UBMC is currently expanding again, a process that likely will continue into 2015.

Duchesne:Residents of the west part of Duchesne County raised

funds and built the Duchesne County Health Center in 1956. This small facility remained open until the early 1960s.

Nursing in the Uintah Basin:The Uintah Basin is particularly fortunate to

have robust Practical Nursing and Associate Degree nursing programs. Uintah Basin Applied Technology College(UBATC), which began in 1977 as Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center, sponsors the Practical Nursing program in Roosevelt. This program predated the school, having been established in 1974 by Jeanne Stringham. Utah State University Eastern campus brought an Associate Degree nursing program to Vernal in 2011.

The UBATC PN program is the beneficiary of the Helen Huish Scholarship Foundation. Helen Huish was born in 1914 and raised in Roosevelt. Helen was educated at the University of Utah and studied nursing at University of California at Los Angeles. Upon graduation, she practiced in Public Health. In 1942 she enlisted in the US Air Corp and deployed to Europe. Helen cared for Allied Troops who were wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and later was awarded the Congressional Bronze Star for her actions.

Upon resuming civilian life, Helen practiced as a Visiting Nurse in Denver and married A.B. Chapman in 1950. Helen was a friend of Jeanne Stringham, who persuaded her to establish the Scholarship at UBATC. Helen died in 1989. Generations of nurses have benefited from her generosity, as has nursing in the Uintah Basin and the State of Utah.

Sources: Reverend Connie Gordon, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,

Vernal , UtahA History of St. Paul’s Parish House, nd, (brochure)

Vernal, UtahBryan Perkins (personal communication) Duchesne, UtahUtah State Historical Society

St Pauls Lodge served as the Vernal hospital in 1929

Today St Pauls Lodge is the parish rectory and social hall

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