Spilyay Tymoo
Page 2 November 19,1982
Students learn health care in nurses’s aide training
by Marsha Shewczyk
The care of people occupies,
many professions. Sometimes
th a t care m eans m erely
providing meals for an elderly
person but many times what is
required is direct medical
assistance. Providing that care
properly and professionally is
important.
The nurses aide training
course offered by Central
Oregon Community College
through the Warm Springs
community education program
is concerned with teaching the
basics of nursing assistance.
The principles learned can be
applied to patients in acute care
facilities such as Mt. View
Hospital in Madras or in the
homes of those needing care.
M any of the students
enrolled in the nurses aid
training class in Warm Springs
are not interested in working in
a hospital although they are
trained for that. Some feel the
knowledge gained through the
course is applicable to the field
in which they currently work.
Nurses aide student Evelyn
N e q u a te w a w o rk s as a
counselor at the Warm Springs
family counseling center. For
her, the nurse's aid course helps
her “ regain knowledge, in
the medical field” she has
forgotten, she says.
At times her job requires her
to go into the hospital to see a
client while dealing with crisis
problems. With the class, she
adds, she is able to get a “better
understanding of what the
patients go through in the
PRACTICING TECHNIQUE—Nurse's aid training instructor D avid Travins, R.N. assists
students Evelyn Nequatewa (left) and Shirley Smith (right) wi refining their blood pressure reading
technique.
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
hospital.” She also feels the training necessary to complete the patient, the class is geared
class is a challenge.
the course is useful knowledge for p atien t care in any
Another health field worker for home care, such as lifting situations. Each patient is
who find the nurse’s aide patients properly and taking different adding a unique
training course to be of value is pulse and blood pressure element to thé job. Nursing,
community health representa readings. “Eliza relates that the itself, if fulfilling in that it is, a
tive Eliza Brown. In her job she class is “really, really good.” way to help comfort and care
for people.
goes into the home for health
Although the nurses aide
Training as a nurse's aideis
care.
generally assists the nurse by not limited to women. Through
Much of the in-hospital taking over the routine care of the years the profession of
nursing has changed from one
basically composed of women
to one where men are now
entering and seeing it as
challenging.
F ro m th e n u rse s aide
certification many people go on
to become certified as a
licensed practical nurse and
even on to get the certificate of
a reg istered n u rse. The
involvement in patient care, of
course, gets more intense as
education in the field increases.
Course instructor David
Travins is a registered nurse
and director of nurses at Mt.
View hospital. His hope is that
some of the nurses aid training
students will pursue employ
ment at Mt. View Hospital.
Mt. View Hospital operates
for local people from both
Madras and Warm Springs. It
would be good to have some
Warm Springs people helping
with the care of patients,
Travins feels. Having Warm
Springs people involved with
the hospital directly would also
help improve communications
between the two communities
and the medical facility.
Travins emphasizes, Mt. View
hospital is “our” hospital. It
operates for everyone.
The ten students who are
enrolled in the nurses aide
training class in Warm Springs
include: Shirley Smith, Joanna
Lytle, Florene Scott, Eliza
Brown, Angelina Stacona, Fay
Hurtado, Relda Ross, Lenora
Starr, Sharon Bean and Evelyn
Nequatewa.
Law library fascinates students
by Pat Leno
To spend one of autumn’s
last sunny warm days in a
library researching a point of
law would not appeal to most
people. But for six of the twelve
members of Angie De La
Torre’s Introduction to Indian
law it was considered one of the
major highlights of the fall-
term class.
Row after row of books
greeted the students as they
entered the law library at the
Lewis and Clark Northwestern
Law School in Portland. For
most of the students it was their
first time in a law library but
they all had a single goal and
that was to research a point of
Indian law for term papers.
Instructor De La Torre said
the students were eager to get to
the business at hand and
following a briefing by a law
student from the college on the
use of the many systems offered
in doing law research, they
p ro c e e d e d w ith “ g re a ty
enthusiam .’’ The students
spent an entire afternoon at the
library.
The three-credit college
course is offered through
Central Oregon Community
College as a part of the Warm
Springs A dult E ducation
program. It is being offered
during the 1982 fall term to the
people in the Warm Springs
area. At present the class
consists of twelve people from
the community who have one
common interest to study
Indian Law. The students come
from many walks of life—a
policeman, a high school
student, a mill worker, a legal
aid person, a newspaper
reporter and a tree thinning
officer to name just a few.
The class has been an
introduction to law in general.
It goes into the unique
re la tio n sh ip betw een the
F ed era l g o v ern m en t and
Indian tribes, which is defined
as a “trust relationship.” Issues
of ju risd ictio n in Indian
Country, tribal sovereignty, the
American Indian Civil rights,
Act, Public Law -280, water,
land, hunting and fishing rights
have been focused on in the
class sessions.
According to De La Torre
the turnout of the students at
the library was a real surprise
because of the distance (109
miles one way). “ I was
surprised at how well the
students liked the law library
and, doing the actual research
itself,” stated De La Torre.
“Perhaps out of this class will
come an Indian Lawyer, you
can never tell,” speculated De
La Torre.
Those attending the class
held at the law library were
W a lte r “ Spud L angnese,
George Stevenson, Richard
Tohet, Randy Smith, Michael
Frank and Pat Leno.
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