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5 The CUckAMAS PfiiNT WedNEsdAy, M ay 50, 2001 -■ . Margaret Bate will ’ease into retirement’ Editor's note: Three longtime nursing instructors - Arlene Jurgens, Pat Krumm and Marga ret Bate - are retiring. Two are featured here; read about Jurgens in next week's edition of The Print. major change.” Along with her roles at the col lege, Bates works on-call at Wil lamette Falls hospital as an instruc tor for in-service programs and at times in the obstetrics (OB) depart ment delivering babies. DIANA SCRIVNER Bates says she has always been Editor-in-Chief interested in nursing. “It is some British born Margaret Bates, Al thing I always wanted to do,” she lied Health coordinator and nurs said. “I started into a nursing pro ing instructor who will retire in gram in England run by the army June, has seen much change since called a cadet program.” She began the program when she first came to the college as a she was 15 years old, her junior student in 1973. Bates became a part time instruc year in High School. During this tor at the college in 1978 teaching time, she lived in a nurse home for in the Medical Assistant Program a year going to school during the doing clinicals for the nursing pro day and working as a nurse at night. She got hands-on experi gram. ence and train “I enjoy nursing ing from this. so much and I enjoy ...s. After graduat teaching the same,” "I enjoy nursing ing from high she said. “But it has school, she never felt like a job to so much and I went to St. me. I’ve really en James Hospital joyed being part of enjoy teaching the University of this Clackamas Com same." Leeds to earn munity College fam Margaret Bate her Registered ily. It’s just been very Allied Health Coordinator Nursing (RN) great.” certificate. Bates became a Upon gradua fulltime instructor in 1980 and served in that role until tion, she worked as a nurse in 1987. When the Allied Health and home care. Nursing departments separated irif “I was kind of like the back up. 1987, she became the Allied Heath We have nurse mid-wives in En coordinator. Allied Health encom gland that do home deliveries,” she passes the EMT program and the said. “They would deliver on one medical assistants program. Al day and I would go the next day though she took over this role, she and take care of the mother, if nec also serves as a nursing instruc essary, and the baby. It was an interesting job.” tor. Bates came to the United States Some of the changes that Bates has seen at the college include in 1964 with her husband and 3 chil moving from Clairmont to the main dren, Peter now 34, David 31, and campus, moving the nursing lab Andrew 27. She began working at Wil twice and dividing the nursing de partment into two levels - first year lamette palls Hospital in 1968 in the Critical Care Unit (CCU). While Level 1 and second year Level 2. “Our whole teaching methods in working, she attended school at nursing have changed,” said Clackamas from 1973 -1976. She Bates. “We use the critical care then transferred to Linfield College thinking model where we actually and received her BA in 1979 and don’t lecture at all. Students work masters of education in 1990. “Most of the time I just feel real on scenarios in groups and test-» ing in groups. That has been a fulfilled with nursing,” she said. LIESL MUGGLI / Clackamas Print Margaret Bate, Allied Health Coordinator and nursing instructor, stands In front of an ambulance which was recently bought by the Allied Health Department. On behalf of her department, Bate purchased the ambulance from Sprague Ambulance in Eastern Oregon for $500. The ambulance comes completely equipped and will be used to train EMT students. The ambulance will help students learn hands-on skills that they can't learn in the classroom including; working in a small space and on the move, and performing other emergency procedures. “As an instructor, it’s a real warm fuzzy feeling when you see stu dents grow so much in the two years that they are here and see them off on their own and so con fident.” Bates said that she is not quite sure she wants to retire straight out, so she will teach a clinical at the hospital next fall and ease into retirement. “As far as recreation, we have a Congratulations!!! ’•'•s^jtaduating students of the 2001 nursing program. I wish you the very best in the future— Myrna Reed Summer Work 50-year-old company with over 400 locations nationally has part time openings in customer service & retail If you want outstanding preparation for any career and over 23 academic programs of study to choose from, then Warner Pacific College is the community for you. 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