Miss Dorothy Mendow of New Orleans was named "Student Nurse of Louisiana" Monday night at the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses convention banquet.
The convention opened earlier in the day at the Jung hotel. It will continue through Wednesday.
Miss*Mendow was selected on the basis of all-round ability in nursing. She is a senior at the Louisiana State university school of nursing with a B-plus scholastic average.
TALKS GIVEN
The selecting board of judges, composed of physicians, nurses and religious leaders, also found she possessed required qualities of honesty, loyalty, leadership and dependability, they said.
Delegates from Louisiana's 12 nursing schools at the banquet heard campaign addresses from the nominees for LASN offices. The election is to be held Tuesday and the winners announced Wednesday.
The annual convention opened with a board meeting and registration fbllowed by the first business meeting. LASN president Judy LaNasa, R.N.,. who presided, said revision of the constitution was discussed.
HYPNOSIS AIRED
Later the convention was addressed by Dr. Esmond Fatter, resident physician at Mercy hospital, and Miss Marie Qverheu, clinical instructor in psychiatric nursing at DePaul hospital.
Dr. Fatter spoke on ''Hypnosis" explaining the power of suggestion in healing and comforting patients.
"Keep an open mind, investigate, study" he urged future nurses. "The sharpest tool that you have in nursing is yourself as a person."
Miss Overhue spoke on the need and rewards of psychiatric nursing. PHOTO: THE STUDENT NURSE OF LOUISIANA, as named Monday
night during the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses convention here, is Miss Dorothy Mendow (right) of New Orleans. She was presented a cup by Miss Judy LaNasa, association president, at a banquet in the Jung hotel.
