Nurses' Conference to Feature Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema

              TWELVE B 9-16-72 THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL, Nurses' Conference to Feature
Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema
A three-day nurses' confer-ence
f o c u s i n g on Chronic
Bronchitis a n d emphysema
and infectious disease control
will be held at the Convention
Center here Sept. 18-20.
Sponsors of the event in-clude
Health Services and
Mental Health Administration,
Dallas Regional Office; the
Louisiana TB and Respiratory
Disease Assn.; L o u i s i a n a ' 1
State Nurses Assn.; Louisiana
Thoracic Society; LSU Medi-cal
Center, School of Medicine
i n Shreveport; Confederate
Memorial M e d i c a l Center;
and Northwestern State Uni-versity
of Louisiana, College
of Nursing.
REGISTRATION FOR the
sessions will begin at 8 a.m.
on Sept. 18, with the first
morning meeting to begin at
8:55 a.m.
Mrs. Elvia Ebarb, R.N.,
chairman of the Northwest
Louisiana Nursing Education
and Advisory Committee of
the N o r t h Louisiana Area
Council, LTRDA, will give the
opening remarks.
Alan K. Pierce, M.D., pro-fessor
of medicine, University
of Texas, Southwestern Medi-cal
School in Dallas, will
speak on "Pathophysiology of
Chronic Bronchitis and Em-physema"
at 9 a.m. He will be
followed by Mrs. Anita Fields,
R.N., instructor, MedicalHSur-gical
Nursing, OMMC, who
will discuss "Nursing Care of
the Patient with Chronic Bron-chitis
and Emphysema."
THE AFTERNOON session
will begin at 1:15 p.m. and
will include the f o 11 o w i n g
demonstrations: "Breathing
Exercises" by Mrs. Hazel
Smith, R.P.T., staff physical
therapist, Shreveport VA Hos-pital;
"Segmental Bronchial
Drainage," by Al Fielder,
c h i e f therapist, respiratory
therapy department, P & S
Hospital; "Bennett Respira-tor,"
Jon A. Brooks, district
Sales manager, Puritan-Ben-nett
Corp., SEdell.
Speakers far the afternoon
session are Daniel H. Mattson,
M.D. chief, Pulmonary Dis-eases
Section, Shreveport VA
Hospital, and Waldemar G.
Johanson Jr., M.D., assistant
professor of medicine, Univer-sity
of Texas, Southwestern
Medical School, Dallas.
DR MATTSON WILL speak
on "Inhalation Therapy in
Chronic Bronchitis and Em-physema,"
while Dr. Johan-son
Jr. will discuss the "Role
of Infection in Chronic Bron-chitis
and Emphysema."
W. Findley Raymond, exec-utive
director, LTRDA, New
Olreans, will present the day's
final remarks.
The Sept. 19 session will
begin with registration at 8
a.m. followed with welcoming
remarks by Dr. Edgar Hull,
dean, LSU Medical Center,
School of Medicine in Shreve-port;
Peggy Ledbetter, R.N.,
Ph. D.; Dean, College of
Nursing, Northwestern State
University, Natchitoches.
WILLIAM CHERRY, Y.M.
D., Regional Health Director,
HSMHA, Dallas, will preside
at the morning session, assist-ed
by John D. McCluhan, Ph.
D. director, Associate Degree
P r o g r a m , Northwestern
School State University School
of Nursing in Shleveport.
Morning speakers and their
subjects are Dr. Bettina C.
Hilman, chairman, Infectious
Disease Control Committee,
CMMC, "Role of the Infec-tious
Disease Control Commit-tee
in the Hospital"; and
Bette Pitte. R.N. Nurse enide-miologist,
Illinois M a s o n i c
Medical Center, Chicago Ill.
"The Role of the Infection
Control Nurse in Surveilance
of Nosocomial Infections".
A SYMPOSIUM on "Me-chanical
Vehicles and Noso-comial
Infections" will begin
at 11 a.m. with G e o r g e
Thornton, M.D,FACP assist-ant
clinical professor of medi-cine.
Yale University School
of Medicine, W a t e r b u r y ,
Conn., as moderator.
Participants will i n c 1 u de
Alan K. Pierce, M.D. Profes-sor
of Medicine. University of
Texas. Southwestern Medical
School in Dallas; John V.
Bennett, M.D.. chief. Bacte-rial
Disease Branch, Commi-cal
Disease Center Atlanta,
Ga.; Raymond Turner, M.D.,
D e p a r t m e n t of Urology,
CMMC; Lee Scott, R.N.. as-sistant
director, Infectious
Disease Control, Charay Hos-pital
of Louisiana, New Or-leans.
Anita Fields, R.N. J. W. Johnson, M.D.
Eleanor Scroggins, R.N. Mrs Hazel Smith, R.P.T.
Janet Stratton, R.N. Al Fielder
"LABORATORY AND Con-trol
of Nosommial Infections
and Tuberculosis" will be
topic for the afternoon sympo-sium.
Participants and their
topics will be Frances Ogasa-wara,
special consultant to the
TB program — National Tub-ercllosis
& Respiratory Dis-ease
Assn., New York City,
"Tuberculosis Control in Gen-eral
Hospitals"; and Louise
McFarland, M. T., M.S.. Eni-demiology.
Charity Hospital,
New Orleans, "The Role of
the Epidemiologist and the
Laboratory Surveillance o f
Nosocomial Infections.'"
Dr. Johanson Jr. will serve
as moderator for that sympo-sium
while Dr. Thornton will
be molerator for the 3:45 p.m.
meeting entitled, "How to
Handle Outbreaks of Infection
in the Hospital." Among those
participating on this panel will
be J u a n Gershanik, M.D.,
Neonatologist, C M M C, who
will discuss "Nursery and
J. J. Gershanik, M.D.
Outbreaks of Staphyloccal In-fections.'"
WEDNESDAY I» SET aside
for the following workshops:
—"B a s i c E pidemiology,
Host Agent Relationships, iso-lation
Techniques and Tuber-culosis
Aspects," Lee Scott,
R.N., New Orleans; Frances
Ogasawara, N.Y., N.Y.; Mrs.
Ann Rambin, M.S.; Arnold
Oberle, M.S., Mrs. Sue Crow,
R.N.
—"How to Set Up Infectious
Disease Control Proerem* '
Be te Pitts, R.N., Chicago.
111.; Mary, Lou Lane. P.N..
nurse consultant HSMHA, Dal-las.
— "Care of Ventilators. Res-piratory
Inhalation Thersny
Equipment, Suction Machines
and Tracheotomies," Ronald
B. George, M.D.. chief. Pul-monary
Disease LSU School
of Medicine in Shreveport;
Bettina C. Hilman, M.D.,
Department of Pediatrics Mi-crobiology
and Immunology,
LSU School o! Medicine in
Shrevepor .
—SPECIAL PROBLSMS of
Infection in HemodiaLvsis Pa-tients."
James W. Johnson,
M.D.,' assistant professor of
medicine, LSU; Mrs. Janet
Stratton, head nurse, Renal
Unit, CMMC.
—"Operating Room anl In-fectious
Disease Control" —
Eleanor S c r o g g i n s , RjN.,
nurse supervisor, operating
room, OMMC; Ivy Baldwin,
R .N., supervisor, operating
room, Bossier City General
Hospital; E l l a Schellinger,
R.N., T.E. Schumpert Memo-rial
Hospital.
John Thornberg
Frances Ogasawara