'General duty nurse' chosen: Miss Betty Aucoin Is Honored with Award

              A 23-year-old staff nurse at Foundation hospital is the "Gen­eral Duty Nurse of the Year" in the New Orleans area,
She is Miss Betty Aucoin, who was presented the "General Duty Nurse of the Year" award Mon­day night at an award banquet at the Louisiana State university medical school.
Miss Aucoin, who has been a professional nurse since her grad­uation from the LSU department 3f nursing in 1960, was judged the outstanding general duty nurse among staff nurses in 10 New Orleans hospitals.
The    judging    was    done    by a committee of professional nurs­ing leaders  in New Orleans. 10  NOMINATED
Ten staff nurses from 10 New Orleans hospitals were nominated for the title of "General Duty Nurse of the Year" by speciaL nurse selection committees of their hospitals. Miss Aucoin was [named the outstanding general duty nurse based on the func­tions, standards and qualifications of general duty nurses as out­lined by the American Nurses' Association and the Louisiana State Nurses' Association,
Miss Aucoin received the award Monday night from Miss Veroni­ca Majchrzak, assistant professor of nursing at the LSU depart­ment of nursing and chairman of the final selection committee.
She also received a corsage, a loving cup, a book on nursing, an American Nurses' Association pin, a key to the city of New Orleans, and gifts of clothes, uniforms, jewelry and gift certificates from New Orleans merchants.
FKOM LAFAYETTE
Miss Aucoin is from Lafayette,, La. She joined the Ochsner Foun­dation hospital nursing staff in 1961 and formerly was a staff nurse at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital, Lafayette.
Special guests at the banquet were Dr. Thomas L. Harvey, rep­resenting the New Orleans Hos­pital Council; Dr. Richard L. Buck, Orleans Parish Medical So-j ciety; Miss Julie Carnahan of | New Orleans, secretary of the American Nurses' Association; Miss Myrtle A, Olstad, board of directors, Louisiana State Nurses' Association; Miss Sue Arnoult, president of the New Orleans Dis­trict Nurses' Association; Mrs. Eveleyn Stumborg, president of the New Orleans* League for Nurs­ing; directors of nursing services of New Orleans hospitals, and city councilman James F. Fitz-morris Jr., who presented Miss Aucoin a key of the city.
NOMINEES LISTED •
Nominees were: Mrs. Millie! Mundt, Mercy hospital; Miss Bar­bara Steib, DePaul; Miss Rowena Reine, -Hotel Dieu; Miss Lx^ona Exposito, EENT; Mrs. Goldie Ba­ker Huegenal, Charity; Miss Ann Bragg, Southern Baptist; Mrs. Barbara Napthly, Touro infirm­ary; Miss Helen R. Bourgeois, US Public Health Service, and Mrs. Theresa A. Walker, Veter­ans Administration hospital.
Miniature loving cups were pre­sented to the nine runnersup by Miss Majchrzak,
The competition was sponsored by the district to encourage gen­eral duty nurses to increase their professional development and to create public and professional in­terest in the quality and quantity or general duty nursing.   Miss Veronica Thompson, staff  nurse at Veterans hospital, served as chairman of the competition. PHOTO: PRESENTING a trophy to Miss Betty Aucoin (right), New Orleans' "General Duty Nurse of the Year," is Miss Veronica Majchrzak, assistant professor of nuTsing at Louisiana State university and chairman of the final selection committee. A member of the Ochsner Foundation hospital nursing staff, Miss Aucoin was selected from 10 nominees from 10 New Orleans hospitals.