1974_09 The Daily Collegian September 1974

              2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN        Thursday, September 26, 1974
Why it isnt necessary to go to nursing school
. credit   for   stuff like Medl
fo become a registered nurse
By Martin Ktlgore
Currently there are at least
three methods to qualify for the
state board exams for registered
nurses which don't requtrt
graduation or even attendance at
a Nursing School. They are:
through proper experience as a
military corpsman, via the State
University of New York's external degree program, and through
the «20 unit bypass" of the California State Nursing Act.
Taking the most Implausible
first, If you served as a 91C In
the Army or Its equivalent from
the Navy or Air Force, you are
qualified to take the State Boards
right now. You can only practice
In this state unless you can get
another state to endorse your
license after you've gotlen some
experience.
that you
an LVN I could have gone directly In and opted for Europe If It
weren't for my hypertension and
was In the medics for three years
can sit for the LVN boards.
The State University of New
York Is developing an external
degree in Nursing. It Is equivalent to an A.A., and qualifies you
ststs of paying a $50 registration fee, passing a CLEP, four
written exams and avpractlcal.
The program Is set to start this
, and they will allow you
Isfy
j  CLEP a
ven the writ
gents External Degree, The
University of the State of New
York, c/o State Education Department, Room 1924, 99 Washington Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12210.
This   degriie  sets   you  up   to
qualify you to work for the Veteran's administration, or another
Federal agency. At any rate, I
once spent a winter In New York
and I postulate that It Is possible
to live a complete, satisfying life
there. (I think.)
The last route requires you to
be an LVN (Licensed Vocational
Nurse). Virtually anyone who
served three years as a medic
can qualify for the LVN hoards.
The bookstore sells books which
will prime you for the state LVN
boards which are pretty simple
and straightforward.
Assuming you have an LVN
license, you then require 20 units
of credit In clinical nursing
courses, and ten units of nursing
prerequisites. The requirements
are spelled out In section 1435.5
of Ihe California Nurse Practice
n the
LETTERS TO THE
Is this progress?
»ses and modern technology
e have neglected one (hint;,
!ourVllce°nseUVk.
EDITOR
same people you apply to -
Board of Nurse Education and
Nurse Registration, 1020 N St.,
Sacramento, Ca   95814.
Very   well,   how  can  you   get
stuff like Medical-
Surgical Nursing, or OB >
of those courses green-carded?
Simple, you challenge them. If
you're enrolled at CSUF and
you've got the prerequisites yo\i
can challenge 30 unlts/from Fundamentals of Nursing, (Med-Surg
I and II, Obstetrical, Pediatric,
and psychiatric Nursing. I .challenged them all except Med-Surg
II (spring of '74), and found them
not too difficult. The texts are
all In the bookstores along with
notes and old exams floating
around every where and It's really
hard to see how one can miss
(N.B. If you do miss It counts
as an F).
Med-Surg I and Fundamentals
of Nursing challenge exams were
teacher-made here at CSUF.
Med-Surg I was a rehash of an
old final and was kind of tricky
because I hadn't yet seen the old
final. Fundamentals was exactly
that. The remainder oftheexams
are standardized U.S. tests put
out by the National League of
Nursing. To pass them you have
to exceed the 50th U.S. percentile.
That percentile Includes all the
Cartoon
contest
Twenty-five dollars and
publication tn the Dally Collegian Is the prize for the
cartoon Judged best by the
editorial tn The Datly Collegian's first annual cartoon
Deadline for submissions
Is midnight, Oct. 7 and entries should be turned In to
the Collegian office In Keats
Campus Building.
Cartoons must be single-
frame and drawn In black Ink
on unllned white paper. Subject matter is unlimited.
wide (the smart ones and lots of
the dumb ones).
I had been working out of "Mos-
by's Comprehensive Review of
Nursing" and "Saunder's Self-
Evaluation of Nursing Competence,* both of which are on
hand. When I was consistently
knocking down 80 percent of their
test questions, I was more than
adequately set up for the CSUF
challenges. If I had failed any
one of them I planned to enroll
at   Hayward   and   have  another
Women's philosophies are borrowed
from many other cultures, says prof
the advent of the n
This, coupled with the runny
iesserls jud a constant shortage
>f drinks, leads lo a dlsappolnt-
ng Situation where ap|ietltes .ire
nurdered every meal.
Many students feel that they
lave !>een misled I
evlnq tl
Studies   at   CSC.   Sonoma   spoke
said the philosophy ol
ters From Prison'," Wilson said.
•Except for my grandmother
all the rest of the philosophers
were men. It scared the hell out
of me. And that's what started
me in Women's Studies.*
One philosopher on women, she
said, IsTillieOlsen.Olsenwrites
,   Wilson
t   Dl
Torn a
to greater numhera
but It has become a slow, mis-
guided process. The cafeterl;
administration did Utile to lead
the new systems and changes tc
the students, leading to a vas
confusion and breakdown of con
like   the   ones   h.
used to say and from the "values" found in rookt>ooks.
•I knew she (her grandmother)
lot-that we have lost."
Wilson said she found si
the philosophies of women through
"painful" and 'prolonged* d
The food Itself h
also
with students having no selection of quantity and type. Meals,
drinks and desserts from my ob-
f  the   main cause
of how she would he accepted as
a woman teacher Inanareadominated by male teachers.
i said.
In  teaching,  Wilson said that
she used the talents learned *ln
The type of education thatpeo-
the type that trains
openness.
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On Women's
said it is the 'liveliest, most
exciting place" on most college
campuses. But, she said, lt does
not belong  Just  to  the unlver-
•The real Women's Studies Is
happening off In somebody's living room," she said. It Is happening 'anytime two women get
together to talk."
Wilson also said that she would
have left the world In the men's
hands If everything had been going right. But, she said, "everything has not been going right."
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Week of Concern' seeks end to Indochina conflicts
Several on campus events are
scheduled for next week as part
of   CSUF's   observation   of an
International Week of Concern,
Paris  peace  agreement, and to
sponsored by  the  United Cam
call for Ihe release of political
paign  to  End   Me War In Indo-
prisoners   held   In  South  Viet
nam." said Mabey.
•There .are three themes for
Al Rlate, who was a prisoner
the week,4 said Assistant Profes-
*o» of Philosophy Rendell Mabey,
years,  will  talk  about  his  ex
one of the coordinators of next
periences and the continuing war
In Vietnam Monday at noon In the
classical dancer.
Honors grading policy
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age   doubled,   going   from  3.26
percent In 1954 to 7.60 percent
In 1973.
The request for a repeal of the
withdrawal policy specifies the
formation of a review committee
to recommend future policy.
It calls the present policy that
requires students seeking withdrawal from the university after
the census date get signatures of
approval from the Individual Instructors and Ihe department
head or the dean 'unnecessarily
detailed" and "bureaucratic nonsense.' The statement goes onto
single class, a student would not
the   University  however  legltl-
! the r
r the «
The chancellor tightened the
withdrawal procedure In 1973
In an attempt to reduce the number of withdrawals occurring after the census date. The number
of students enrolled at the census
date partially determines how
much money the university receives.
The unofficial ^;*53^|^^gji^»^'" Fly with u
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CU Lounge. Rlate was one of the
anti-war POW's who was accused
of collaboratton with the enemy.
Charges against him were later
dropped.
Appearing in the lounge Monday with Rlate will be folkslnger
and actress- Holly Near. She appeared In the movie "Slaughterhouse Five* and will sing songs
she composed about Vietnam and
Both Rtate and Near will appear Monday at 8 p.m. at tbe
Wild Blue Yonder at Fulton and
Olive Avenues.
•Vietnam: SttllAmerlca's War,'
a film, will be shown Tuesday at
8 p.m. in Science 221.
The slide show -Women in
Vietnam* will be shown at noon
lnSRl-25.
Jane and David Barton, who
FriendsSer-
The Bartons spent two years
working In hospitals In South
Vietnam and will speak on the
situation there and the condition
of 200,000 political prisoners
held In South Vietnam.
Literature tables will be set up
In   the   Free   Speech   Area  all
Child development   Campus police seek assailant
program awaits
Ford's signature
State approval of the child development program at the CSUF
Day Care Center has guaranteed
the center a hefty appropriation
center will be reimbursed for
Us food-for-needy-chlldren program depends upon president
Ford.
Until the President signs the
1974-75 appropriation for thej
Special Food Service Program
for Children, the FSC Association's request for financing will
remain In a "suspense file." according^ James E. Waters of the
California  Department  of Edu-
The President's signature
would assure California of federal funds to be used to reimburse the Individual centers
sponsoring the programs.
The status of the Child Day
Care Center and Its rood program
will he discussed at tomorrow's
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the FSC Association. The
meeting will he held In College
Union 304 at 2 p.m.
Campus police are still searching for the unidentified assailant
of a CSUF student.
The assailant sent his vtctlm
to Fresno Community Hospital
Monday night from Injuries suffered during a fracas In the men's
The fracas broke out over control of , a loose ball during a
"friendly* basketball game, CSUF
police said.
The injured student, Martin
McBrlde, received multiple Injuries. He was released from the
hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Police said that they do not
know who the assailant was, but
they are sure they will find him.
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Placement Office.
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