November

Upcoming Events: Thursday, November 21st at 7:00pm Thanksgiving Party at Carol Lavender’s House—bring a can of food or hygiene items to donate! November 27th-29th Thanksgiving Holiday! ☺ December 10th at 3:00pm Open SNA board meeting. Please come with your ideas on how to improve SNA. This counts as professionalism credit! December 16th-20th

FINALS!! Good luck! Be watching for e-mails detailing further

BYU College of Nursing Celebrates 50 Years

The BYU College of Nursing celebrated its 50th anniversary on October 17, 18, and 19. Packed with fun and interesting activities, the celebration was a complete success.

The conference began with President Bateman giving an in-depth look at the painting "Christ Healing at Bethesda," a gift to the College by the Alumni Association. That was followed by a number of different presentations including a distinguished panel, honored alumna Sandra Rogers, Dean Marshall, a fashion show (that sent many rolling in the aisles), and a video walk through the history of the College of Nursing. Vending and recruiting booths were also present throughout the conference. (Don't forget to buy your new BYU Nursing t-shirt!)

At the Alumni luncheon, Intermountain Health Care awarded the College an impressive gift of $50,000. They expressed their thanks to the College, faculty, and students for our wonderful work and service.

Finally, the weekend was capped by the CoN/SNA float winning the Dean’s Award for best college float at the homecoming parade! Ben Boyer, SNA President

BYU College of Nursing Choir

The BYU College of Nursing choir for the 50th Anniversary Celebration was truly an inspiration! The new verses written by Susan Evans McCloud definitely captured the spirit of nursing. Through many early morning practices, the choir was able to learn the piece and present it with the Spirit at the celebration. We would like to thank all those who participated in the choir and

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Stethoscoop BYU STUDENT NURSES’ ASSOCIATION

Favorite Faculty Spotlight This year’s winners of the students’ favorite teacher voting were

Carol Lavender and Paul Blad. Most of us have had the wonderful opportunity of attending a class taught by them. Some of us, including myself, have also had clinical with them and have been able to get to know them a little better. For those of you who don’t know them as well, let me give a spill about them both.

Paul lives way down in Kanosh, a city of only 490 people. He is a husband and father of 7 children, 2 of which are currently serving missions with another on the way. He is very i l d i ti d l t t h i P l i tl M j i th Ai F

Homecoming Parade Thanks to all of those that participated in the Homecoming Parade and decorating the float. On Oct. 18th BYU-SNA sponsored a pizza and float decorating party at Carol Lavender’s house. In keeping with the theme of the 50th Anniversary of the College of Nursing, students dressed in nursing uniforms from the early 1900’s to the present, and cars were donated for the parade from 1953 and 2002. Thanks to Carol Lavender, we even had students dressed as “injured” patients to the give the crowd a taste of what we do. We had so much fun, partly due to the number of people that turned out for the

Favorite Faculty Continued… Paul loves coaching high school baseball and little league basketball and football. At school, Paul applies the same principles of coaching as he teaches various peri-op classes with BYU nursing, which he feels is his final step as a teacher. Paul feels that his roles as a nurse and teacher, and all of the steps leading up to them, have greatly blessed his life. He has no desire to do anything else. I took Paul’s peri-op class almost one year ago at LDS Hospital. When we finished with his clinical rotation, I think all the students in our class wanted to work in the emergency room. His love for this type of nursing flowed to all of us (Thanks!).

Carol Lavender, more commonly known as “The Purple Lady,” has come all the way from Texas (the other great state) to bless our lives here in the college of nursing. She loves working with geriatric populations and is always pushing the college to give more time to the geriatric clinical component. Carol is also one of the faculty advisors for the BYU-SNA. Her enthusiasm for SNA and her love for fun have brightened our association. She generously offers her time, talents, and her home☺ to the students. Additionally, she helped the SNA make a good amount of money at our last convention by selling sterling-silver jewelry that she made. Carol

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Mentor of the Month WE NEED YOUR INPUT! The faculty and administration of the college would like to recognize nurses in your clinical sites that you found to be especially helpful, caring, a good role model, an excellent teacher or any other special quality you identified. Simply email your suggestion and a short paragraph of why the nurse was special to Carol Lavender or Joann Abegglen. The nurse will receive a gift and be invited to a special luncheon. YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL FOR THIS RECOGNITION PROGRAM TO WORK!

SNA Holiday & Service Party On Thursday, November 21st we will be having our Holiday Party. It is from 7-9 p.m. at Carol Lavender's house. Everyone is invited (even if you are not a SNA member), and significant others are also invited. To get into the party you need to bring either a canned food item or a hygiene product. You will get extra door prize tickets for bringing more items (each item equals another ticket). SNA will be providing a delicious dinner. The dinner will be buffet style so you can come and go as you please. We will also have a couple of service projects set up in Carol's house for people to work on (quilt tying, putting Christmas ornaments together…). We will also be selling the new college tee shirts and jewelry at the party so bring your money. Come enjoy a free dinner and opportunity to mingle with your fellow nursing friends and professors in a non-school environment! Also, on Monday, December 2nd we need people to help decorate a Christmas tree for the Festival of Trees. The decorating will take place at South Towne Expo Center all day on the 2nd. There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board in the NLC if you would like to help do this service project. All proceeds from the tree go to Primary Children's Center.

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BYU STUDENT NURSES' ASSOCIATION

We are student nurses working together to enhance our educational experiences through student involvement and service opportunities as we are guided by the

Spirit. We are the future! E-mail comments, submissions to: stethoscoop@byu.edu

NEW COLLEGE OF NURSING TEE SHIRTS This semester the Student Nurses' Association has ordered new tee shirts. Realizing that the majority of nursing students are female, we decided to order girly (fitted) tees as well as our normal men's tees. The men's t-shirts are navy, and the girly t-shirts are white and come in two different styles. All the shirts have the new design and logo on them. The SNA sold quite a few shirts at the 50th Anniversary Conference and are continuing to sell them. Contact David Keller or any SNA member to buy one. The shirts sell for $18; SNA members can buy them for $15. Show your nursing pride and buy a shirt! Heather Sheffield, SNA Publicity Director