Cone Hospital review [June, 1978]

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Vol. XII No. 3
June 3978
A/an Cone Heads Board
Alan W. Cone
Ceasar Cone
Walter W. King, Jr.
ANNUAL TRUSTEES
MEETING
Mr. Ceasar Cone, who has served as a trustee of the
hospital since 1944 and as President of the Board of Trustees
since 1971, announced his retirement as President and as a
member of the Board of Trustees at the Annual Trustees
meeting May 3. Succeeding him as President is Mr. Alan W.
Cone, a Trustee of the hospital since 1970. Mr. Walter W.
King, Jr. was appointed for a three-year term to succeed Mr.
Ceasar Cone as a member of the Board.
Other officers elected at the meeting were Vice-President.
Mr. Edwin F. Lucas, Jr.; Secretary, Mr. Harold L. Bettis:
Treasurer. Mr. Howard Holderness; Assistant Treasurer, Mr.
Donal Mitchell; Assistant Secretaries, Mr. V. Gregg Watters
and Mr. T. Marvin Goldman.
Trustees re-elected for a three-year term were Mrs. Britt
M. Armfield, Dr. Isaac H. Miller, Jr. and Mrs. Robert B.
Taylor.
Dr. Edward P. Benbow, Jr. was re-appointed by the
Guilford County Medical Society for a three-year term.
Other members of the hospital's Board of Trustees are Dr.
Rod M. Buie, Jr., Mr. Benjamin Cone, Jr., Mr. N. P. Hayes,
Mr. William L. Hemphill, Mrs. Lewis S. Morris, Mr. Louis
C. Stephens, Jr. and Mr. Charles L. Weill, Jr.
HOSPITAL RECEIVES
TWO-YEAR ACCREDITATION
The  hospital was recently accredited for a two-year
period by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals This accreditation was a result of a recent on-site survey
by field representatives of the Joint Commission's
ital Accreditation Program.
Accreditation indicates that the hospital has chosen to
ate according to standards set by the J.C.A.H. and that
lospital has, in the main, met these standards. Moses
Hospital has been fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation since it opened in 1953.
PRIMARY NURSING IN
MOSES CONE HOSPITAL
Mr.   Gene   Tranbarger,   Director  of
Nursing, announced that he expects to
initiate an improved method of patient
care — called Primary Nursing — in the
'^tr  . '..     jh        hospital by late summer,  1978.  "This
^P1 r^&     system," Mr. Tranbarger said, "utilizes
the knowledge and skill of the nurse and
puts the nurse back at the patient's bedside."
A planning committee for Primary Nursing, chaired by
Candy Colglazier, R. N., and made up of staff nurses representing all nursing units and all three shifts, including representatives from the LPN group, the head nurse group, the
supervisory nurse group, nursing administration and patient
education nurses, has been meeting to define the Primary
Nursing concept for the hospital and to establish goals for a
higher standard of nursing care.
The committee has defined Primary Nursing as "a means of
delivering nursing care wherein the nursing care for a specific
patient is under the continuous guidance of one professional
nurse from admission to discharge."
Miss Colglazier explained that the primary nurse will study all available information on the patient and talk with him
or her soon after admission. From the
charted information and from what she
or he has learned from the patient himself, the primary nurse will evaluate the
patient's needs and draw up a plan of care which will be
followed throughout the patient's hospital stay.
Registered and licensed practical nurses working as primary
nursing associates, will help to carry out the plan of care.
Nursing assistants will also be included in this plan.
Currently, several people are involved in providing nursing
care for one patient. For example, a patient may receive his
medication from one nurse, another person gives his meals,
another may change his bed linens, and others may take care
of the many different needs. The primary nurse would personally be responsible and accountable to see that all medications, treatments and any other part of his hospital stay are
done according to the patient's individualized plan of care.
Mr. Tranbarger said there is much work yet to be done
before Primary Nursing can be established. Manuals and job
descriptions must be revised and staffing and scheduling
charts must be drawn up. He hopes to increase the nursing
staff by filling vacant positions and decreasing turnover, and
these new nurses as well as personnel presently working in
Nursing Department will attend Primary Nursing educational
classes.
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