Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1988 Page: 1 of 12
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American Cancer Society sets day aside for no smoking
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NOVEMBER 17,1988
see pages 2 & 4
South attains football victory see page 10
Wednesday, November 16,1988
Tarrant County Junior College
Fort Worth, Texas
Volume 1, Number 10
Students fight plan for solving nursing crunch
By Vicki Rowlls
News Editor
Nursing students on South Campus are
actively campaigning against a recent proposal
designed to help solve the current nursing short-
age by the American Medical Association
(AMA).
The proposal will create a new division of
health care personnel or a non-nurse who
would give bedside care. These new personnel
will be called registered care technologists
(RCT’s).
“The RCT’s would work with nursing
personnel and assist with bedside care at non-
managerial levels,” Dr. Alan Nelson, AMA
chairman, said in a recent report.
South Campus nursing students oppose
the proposal for several reasons, but mainly
because they feel it will fragment patient care.
At a recent convention of the Texas Stu-
dent Nursing Association in Houston, repre-
sentatives from the TCJC chapter said the
proposal was an underlying issue.
“The main purpose of the convention was
to provide workshops to help prepare students
for running for state offices, but the RCT pro-
posal was on a lot of people’s minds,” John
Allbright, TCJC chapter secretary, said.
“Nursing is so complex,” Allbright said.
“And patient care is already so fragmented —
with nurses aides, LVN’s, two-year nurses and
four-year nurses.”
“I believe this program will hurt the pa-
tient. The quality of care will go down,” he
said.
Jurisdiction of accreditation of the regis-
tered care technologist is another point of dis-
agreement.
Under the proposal, the new health care
employees would be part of a medical support
system and therefore, licensure and accredita-
tion would be from the AMA.
The Board of Nurse Examiners, however,
feels that it should have that jurisdiction.
In a recent position statement, the board
stated, “Through the Nurse Practice Act, we are
charged with the responsibility of regulating
professional nursing practice. The RCT should
be prepared to provide services that are nursing
oriented rather that medically oriented.”
“If more funding were available for nurs-
ing schools, RCTs wouldn’t be needed,”
Allbright said.
Reportedly, some nurses say that their
most important duties could be taken away with
the implementation of these technologists.
continued on page 3
Leaders gather for regional conference at NW
Workshops provide look at parliamentary procedure, memory skills
By Toni Stroud
Editor in Chief
When the gavel came down on the Region IV student
government conference, plans for the next meeting were on the
drawing board; and those who attended took new leadership
skills back to their student organizations.
About 50 students gathered on NW Campus Friday to take
part in workshops designed to help them become more effective
leaders.
Students from TCJC’s NW and South campuses, McClen-
nan Community College in Waco, and Navarro College in
Corsicana, all member schools of the Texas Junior College
Student Government Association, attended.
Before getting into the workshops, students got acquainted
by trying to fill a card with names. The card required everyone
to ask descriptive questions of each other. “
On leadership
development:
The class taught me
how to get people's
attention and keep
them interested in
meetings.
- James Kirk
It’s an icebreaking game that gets everyone talking to each
other,” Ralph Nitsch, NW Campus Student Government Asso-
ciation president, said.
Nitsch presided over a number of the day’s activities and
directed students to various workshops.
Workshop topics ranged from parliamentary procedure to
memory improvement.
Jerry Biggs, local businessman and TCJC alumnus, took
his workshop students through a mock meeting, demonstrating
throughout, how using Robert’s Rules of Order (one form of
parliamentary procedure) can make meetings run more smoothly.
“Meetings should be fun; and by using Robert’s Rules of
Order, time can be spent creatively, rather than being spent in
wondering how to handle a difficult situation,” Biggs said.
“It’s what they use in Congress and in the Senate. It’s the
way things get accomplished,” Biggs said.
Biggs agreed with one student who called parliamentary
On communication
workshop:
You start to realize
how your ideas are
coming across to other
people.
- Patricia Gomez
procedure a dull topic; but Biggs assured those who attended the
conference that, by following a regimented format, more group
business can be conducted, leaving a structure around which fun
can develop.
In two other meetings, communication skills and memory
improvement, students received advice on strengthening these
interpersonal skills.
“If you’d like to increase the quality of your life, increase
the quality of your communication,” Charles “Charley” Riley,
NW Campus coordinator of the middle management program,
said.
Riley, who led both the communication skills and the
memory improvement workshops, said the two disciplines are
closely related.
continued on page 3
On leadership
development:
We were shown how
to recruit new mem-
bers and how to get to
know our members
better.
- Cheryl Yarbrough
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