Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Page: 8 of 20
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Cljerokeeaif Herald ■ thecherokeeari.com
RUSK STATE HOSPITAL
SFA nursing students use social
learning grant for hospital patients f
By Glenda Bruce
Special Contributor
A community partners
breakfa st was held at Stephen
F. Austin State University
(SFA) Sept. 1.
The breakfast enabledcom-
munity agencies to discover
new ways to enlist student
volunteers to help with events
through service learning.
Service learning provides
students with opportunities
to apply what they learn in
the classroom to real world
issues in the community.
Jamie Bouldin, assistant
director for leadership and
service, detailed the grant
program offered by the Office
of Student Affairs Programs
for faculty to access funding
for worthy service learning
projects,
Deborah Ellisor, a clini-
cal instructor in the DeWitt
School of Nursing, gave a
presentation on how 70 SFA
Nursing students used the
grant last spring to help host
birthday parties for more than
•$00 patients at Rusk State
Hospital.
The goals for the, students
were to develop empathy for
mentally ill patients, use
therapeutic communication
skills, overcome biases and
fears about the mentally ill,
maintain therapeutic bound-
aries when interacting with
patients in a locked setting,
identify socio-economic issues
affecting care of mentally
ill, improve quality of life
for mentally ill patients and
promote the image of the
School of Nursing and the
university,
The students were given
an inside look at mental ill-
ness and an opportunity to
utilize their therapeutic com-
munication skills, while also
improving the quality of life
for mentally ill patients.
"You don't realize the re-
sources and skills your stu-
dents have until you give
them a challenge like this",
Ms. Elhsor said.
The student evaluations of
the project were 100 percent
favorable.
>- New
Summerfield
FFA officers
include (from
left) Cade
Wilkerson,
Ryan Weaver,
Ashley
Byrom - FFA
sweetheart,
Ramie Weaver,
April Pond
and Jonathon
Palacios. Not
pictured is
Arnulfo Aguilar.
i
Harvey Cotten
Lexington Place Success
Bridging the gap from hospital to home"
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Harvey Cotten began his rehabilitation upon admission to Lexington Place in June with significant
impairments with most ADL's and ambulation. Through lots of hard work and consistent motivation
to return home, he showed good improvement in all areas of his rehabilitation program. Mr. Cotten
was very happy when he was able to walk down our long hall to the vending machine in order to
purchase his own, much loved strawberry drink. He was also very excited to dress himself with
minimal assistance from staff. Being able to dress himself was a big accomplishment and spurred
him onward to the last few challenges he had to overcome in order to return home. His family
was happy to see improved use of his left arm which had decreased in strength and use in recent
months. "I appreciate you making me do this", Mr. Cotten told our therapy assistants. Mr. Cotten
was a pleasure to work with and kept us humming to his requested ' good ole country music' while
he worked through his rehab program each day. He returned home last week to continue his daily
lifestyle and enjoy his family. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Cotten for trusting that Lexington Place
could make a difference in your life.
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Shay Bckenrod, PTA, Harvey Cotten & Mike Moore, COTA
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330 Bagley Rd., Rusk • 903-683-5438
Debbie Ellisor, nursing instructor at the DeWitt School
of Nursing at Stephen F. Austin State University, gave a
presentation at a community partners breakfast about
the 70 SFA nursing students who used a service learn-
ing grant to help host birthday parties for more than 300
patients at Rusk State Hospital.
One student wrote: "This
really opened my eyes to
a whole other world, and
touched me in a way, that asa
nurse, I know that lean make
a difference in some small
way, one person at a time, by
just giving my time.''
The SFA Nursing Program
has been given another grant
for this year and will be host-
ing birthday parties for RSI 1
patients in October.
Mrs. Bruce is director of
community relations at Busk
State Hospital.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY
I had to laugh when I was asked to say a few words about CH. I would never have thought that
the term "say a few words'' would ever be used in a sentence that referred to CH. Someone told
me that whenever I hear some wild story about CH to never forget that SS% of them were true.
Since getting to know CH I have come to believe that the other SI were probably not too far
off target.
I did not know.CH for a long time but I did learn a lot about who he Was. He told me of the time
that he and his buddies asked if they could swim in a pond on a farmer's land. (I did not ever
get CH to agree that what he called "a bunch of buddies" then would be called a gang now.) The
farmer told them that he did not mind but the pond was, infested with snakes. A few days later
they went back to the man and had him come down to the pond with them. They showed a 1 ft.
high pile of snakes that they had gotten out of the pond. They really enjoyed swimming there that
summer. Growing up he had worked hard with his Daddy to help support their family. He took his
father to dialysis treatment and helped care for his father as he died from renal disease.
He was very proud of his service to his country during the Korean War. I asked him if he had
ever been wounded. He told me 41/2 times. I asked how could you get 111 a wound. He said he
had been shot twice and been wounded by mortar file and bayoneted once. He was also beaten
by enemy captors. The 5th time was in a battle; he felt pain in his leg and saw he was bleeding.
Since he did not know what hit him, he only took credit for 1/2 of a wound for that one. He earned
a Silver Star for manning a machine gun by himself and using it to stop an enemy attack. He
saved many lives and he held their position. I asked him what he was thinking when he did that.
He told me that if he had thought about it, he would not have done it.
CH built 9SIS of the roads, dams and lakes in this part of Texas or at least he seemed to think he
did. I can tell you the right way to build any road, dam or lake you could want to build. I can tell
you where there is a good truck stop, speed traps to watch out for, how to miss a weight station,
where I could get a ice cold beer, and where the best honkey tonks were from here to California
and from here to Mew York. He did a lot of research on the honkey tonk part.
CH loved his family and would do anything to help a family member. He loved his children and
to have them back put so much happiness into his life. Even after being taken advantage of by
others, CH never lost the eyes of innocence he had when he looked at family.
He was the most ruthless checker player I have ever met. There were times that I did not jump one
of his checkers out of fear for my physical health. He loved strawberry malts, always complained
about his "gov't issued" false teeth but was too cheap to get a new set, old westerns channel,
military channel. Find a Word and playing Solitaire on a computer. He also seemed to enjoy talk-
ing. We got along so well because he talked and I listened.
CH was not perfect, none of us, are. He and I would get into telling each other "what was I
thinking" stories. He sure could always do me one better. One of the funniest things he told me
about happened in Little Rock, Ark. CH had put a six pack of beer on the top of his truck and
all the sudden somebody reached over and grabbed the six pack. The first reaction by anybody
would be to think that somebody was stealing the beer. So CH knocked the guy out, First problem
there, was that there was a city ordinance that prohibited having beer in sight at night. Second
problem, is that guy who grabbed the beer and CH knocked out was the Chief of Police from
Little Rock, Tennessee.
CH made some pretty bad choices in his life. He has showed me that you take the rubble that we
create in our lives with our mistakes and use it to hide behind or use it to build something better
that what we had before. CH learned to be a builder and how to make the best of any situation.
Claude H Lenard went through his life in many different role's. He was a husband, father, soldier,
son, grandfather and brother. He lived and did the best he could at those times.
He was my friend and I miss him greatly but also am very grateful that I knew him.
CH, You have served well and did the best that you could to fight the good fight. Your term of
enlistment is up. Soldier, Time to go home.
^ I Written by Marcus Hassell i ^
A fitting tribute for his 79th Birthday (9/23)
We love you and miss you
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