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The CUckAMAS PfiiNT
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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
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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
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