Nurses Advocate Team Approach At Mercy St Luke Units
Mercy hospital staff discuss evolving nursing care highlighting team nursing and closer supervision under RN leaders. They note past practices in surgical patients with long stays and risks like emboli, contrasting with modern, patient centered, team driven care planned for Mercy’s new facility.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Towor
Paul Kartman
Kartman
Mercy
Mabel Mottet
R.N
Cie
Medical progress reshapes hospital care in 1968
In 1968, 73 098 days were spent by 9 548 residents of Jinn and adjacent counties in St Luke’s and Mercy hospitals with improvements in surgical mortality and rehabilitation. Nursing advances, early ambulation, and new diets improved patient comfort, obstetrics, and recovery prospects while stroke and cardiovascular care emphasized rehabilitation and discharge within a week.
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St. Luke's
Mercy Hospitals
Jinn
Rure
Soviets End Publication of Zpravy Propaganda Sheet
The Soviet army announced it will discontinue Zpravy Affairs, the propaganda sheet circulated by Russia’s state media. The move followed liberal and Czechoslovak officials under Dubcek, soon replaced by Husak. Zpravy had planned to publish until Moscow’s own press failures allowed change.
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Prague
Rusa
Alesander Dubcek
Gustav Husak
Zpravy
Husak
Fiettiostovassia
Israeli Raid Into Jordan Narrows Gaps in 36 Hour Offensive
Israeli forces carried out a rapid operation in Jordan over 36 hours, killing three Arabs, destroying 12 houses, and conducting two air strikes. Commandos half a mile from the Jordan River penetrated deep into Jordan for the first time in nine months, targeting Wadi Jabis where saboteurs were active. An Israeli spokesman said the village was abandoned and casualty reports stood without Israeli losses.
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Associated Posse
Israel
Jordan
Jordan River
Wadi Jabis
Conservatives sweep British town halls in local elections
In England and Wales Conservatives gained 630 seats and 17 town councils while Labour lost 600 plus posts, dropping to control of 25 councils. The result weakens Labour’s national prospects though Wilson remains party leader as calls for change subside.
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London
Britain
Wilson
House of Commons
Labor Party
Wilsart
England
Wales
Labor
Scotland
National Health Service
Jasipetine
Metropolitan Accepts Rocky's Art Collection
Gov. Rockefeller announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art will absorb the 3,000 piece collection from the Museum of Primitive Art. A new wing, named for his son Michael who died on a New Guinea expedition, will house the collection, reflecting Rockefeller’s 35 years of collecting primitives.
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New York
Rofeller
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Primitive Art
Rockefeller
Metropolitan
Michael
New Guinea
Why Rubber Got Its Name in Early Science Curiosity
UPI reports that in 1770 English scientist Dr Joseph Priestley used hardened latex to erase pencil marks and coined the term rubbier, inspiring the later word rubber as a material name per the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers.
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New York
UPI
International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc
Joseph Priestley
Scout-O-Rama Set for Hawkeye Downs This Saturday
The annual Scout-O-Rama sponsored by Hawkeye Area Council 172 of the Boy Scouts will be held Saturday from 2 until 6 p.m. at Hawkeye Downs. Scouts from Linn and Benton counties and portions of Iowa counties will participate.
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Hawkeye Area
Somerville Receives Duke Grant For Graduate Study
Cedar Rapids resident Paul Somerville wins a $5,000 endowment from Duke University Durham North Carolina for graduate study. Son of Rev and Mrs Paul Wesley Somerville 850 Twenty-ninth NE he will graduate soon from Morningside College Bronx City where he majored in philosophy and belonged to Blue Key and Who's Who. After Duke he plans church related social services work.
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Paul Somerville
Cedar Rapids
Duke University
Durham
N. C
Somerville
Paul Wesley Somerville
Morningside College
Bronx City
Morningside
Blue Key
Honorary
Society For
Duke
Culver Urges ICC Block Hawkeye Rail Discontinuance
Congressman Culver urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to stop the Illinois Central from ending the Hawkeye passenger service from Dubuque to Sioux City. He warned the move would end east west passenger rail in northern Iowa and called for a full investigation into bus substitute plans and future regional transport needs.
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Washington
Joh Culver
Interstate Commence Commission
Ilingis Central
Long
Tthe
Ilinois Central
Dubuque
Sioux City
Unis
Train Discontinuance Sparks Debate On Illinois Route
In a review of transportation trends last decade IllinoisCentral and related lines face scrutiny with a 60 percent air transport shift and rail service declines cited. Culver repeats calls for integrated transit linking passenger trains with highways amid safety and police concerns.
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Illinois, Central
Iin
Culver
Danny Thomas
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