A brawny, sunbronzed Tarzan of a man held his hands in front of his eyes. They were good solid hands, the kind that take to work. His legs were hard and muscular, his feet sturdy, the kind that should steadily climb an oil rig.
They had climbed an oil rig out in the Gulf. But no more. An accident on the job had sent this man to Ochsner Foundation hospital, paralyzed from the waist down.
I The man lay in a ward, no longer gregarious but wondering: "What does half a man do for a living? What does a wife think ... and his children? What are those nurses down the hall talking about? perhaps, how he was a future charity case."
The nurses down the hall were talking about his kind, yes. They were "the team"—a head nurse, a practical nurse, an orderly, an aid and a student.
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They were trying to figure Ways to approach this man, to
get him to talk about the way he felt, trying to suit themselves to his needs.
Listening were 35 nurses from Louisiana hospitals, in town to learn about team nursing.
They were attending a five-day workshop which ended Friday sponsored by Louisiana State uniyersity department of nursing and Louisiana State Nurses' Association at LSU school of medicine.
After hearing about this relatively new concept designed to co-ordinate all levels of nursing to benefit individual patients, these nurses went to Foundation hospital, the state's demonstration center for team nursing.
Miss Veronica Majchrzak, assistant professor of nursing at LSU, and Miss Eleanor Logan, supervisor at Ochsner, are conducting the workshop.
