Page 4, Portland Observer, October 29, 1986
Rejected From Nursing School 20 Yrs
Ago Because She Was Black
Loretta Ganter always knew she
would be a nurse
Society, how
ever, did not make it easy Despite
her qualifications, she was turned
down by a leading Portland, Oregon
nursing program
Ms Ganter is
black, and the hospital did not per
mit blacks into its dormitories
the hospital
Today, she reflects on the change
in nursing roles "Our input as nur
ses is appreciated now
Today's
nurse must understand that medi
cine is also a business He or she
should be prepared ,o review finan
ce*. attend planning meetings, and
have opinions about corporate stra
tegy "
On a typical walk down a corridor
of the Oregon Surgery Center, Ms.
her four year program to become an
RN. At the same time. Ms Ganter
raised two son* with her husband,
Charles (the Ganters have been
married for 26 years!
Ironically. Ms Ganter s career
was launched at the very hospital
that had at first turned her down
During her 15 year tenure, she be
came the firs, black nurse in Ore
gon to head a surgical nurstng team
She also served as a consultant to
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Ganter stops to say hello to an el
derly cataract patient, reassures the
mother of a young boy in knee sur
gory, directs one of her nurses to an
operating room, and is approached
by the administrator for her opinion
on a revised monthly budget
"The days of simply handing the
doctor a sponge are behind us."
says Ms. Ganter "As the face of
medicine keeps changing, so will
the face of nursing "
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Loretta G anter. head nurse at
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1 hat was 20 years ago Today,
Ms Ganter is head nurse at the Ore
gon Surgery Center, the first free
standing outpatient surgery unit in
Portland, which she helped to de
sign in 1983 "In today's world this
isn't an unusual thing for a nurse to
be asked to do," says Ms Ganter,
who has seen many changes in her
profession over the years as well as
a reduction of racial preiudice
My high school advisor actually
told me to give up," she recalls
"She said, 'You have to be realistic,
Loretta,' and told me that maybe I
could be an LVN (licensed vocation
al nurse). Well, I ignored her 'reali
stu advice I always knew I wanted
to lie a full fledged registered nurse,
and that was what I was going to
be.”
Her dreams proved more realistic
than stie was told After being tor
tied down, stie unrolled in another
school to become an LVN, and
worked full time while completing
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Enrollment for the ,986 summer
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1 otal headcount revealed tha t
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summer session, compared to 3.859
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time equivalency number FTE was
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mer of ,984
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