Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Nurses mum on drug administration errors Winnipeg free press. Thursday. August 15. A Wall of silence has descended around the Manitoba nursing profession with regard to accusations of faulty drug administration by nurses made Friday at the can Adian pharmaceutical association convention in Winnipeg. Or. Kenneth Barker of the University of Arkansas speaking to the convention. Said that in a study of two american hospitals he conducted one of every six doses of medication was Faul tily administered by the nursing staff. With one exception replies of from Winnipeg general hospitals and the Manitoba association of registered1 nurses when Aske about the accusation. The Only nursing director t comment at this time Patrici scorer of children s Hospital said that is certainly not our experience that the ratio is any thing like one in there is she said the occasional error in drug Nistra son but this was due to the Manjan Factor and in the order no administering and recording of. The drug there were Many opportunities for mistakes. Nurses she said had often caught the pharmacists in errors. Although we have never been under such close observation i am sure the situation is nothing As she official at the Manitoba association of registered nurses said that the not prepared to comment at this time but were holding a Confer ence later this week to discuss the problem and prepare a state ment. Nursing directors at Winnipeg general and St. Boniface Hospi tals said they had not read the statement in Friday s free press and would not comment on those press for control on Wood alcohol the Canadian pharmaceutical association is to press for fed eral action to prevent the uncontrolled Sale of Methyl hydrate Wood alcohol and it Jias urged its members to emphasize to the i folic the dangers of smoking. Resolutions to this effect were adopted by the association at its annual meeting at the Marl Borough hotel thursday. The meeting was the final session of the association s 58th annual convention. Jack Litvack Public relations same Sla Ould apply at other places of Purchase. The association resolved that if it were unable to obtain any significant Federal action in this regard each provincial association urged in the Public in Terest to press for provincial legislation to exercise this con Resolution dealing with chairman of the Manitoba pharmaceutical association elaborated on the Resolution dealing with Wood alcohol. Although re Tail druggists Are required by Law to record sales of Wood Ai Cohol in their Poison registers it is sold freely at other outlets like hardware he said. Wood alcohol is dangerous and can cause blindness if taken in any Quantity. It is used generally As a solvent or the association Felt that if it were necessary for druggists to sign for these purchases the tool. The smoking says that the Canadian pharmaceutical association recognizes a definite link has been hoodlum9 priest Dies St. Louis a _ Rev Charles Dismas Clark 62-year old hoodlum priest who helped rehabilitate about sex convicts died of a heart attack today. He had been a patient Jet St. Mary s Hospital for the last 19 Days. The Jesuit priest so strongly in the Basic Good of Man that lie adopted his raid die name in Honor of the Good thief who died on the Cross be Side Christ he also gave that name to his rehabilitation Cen tre Dismas House located in a 91 year old former school building near downtown St. Louis. About former convicts passed through the Centre an average of about 500 each year since he started the father Dismas Clark foundation in 1959 the Centre handles about 60 sex established Between incidence of certain illnesses and the use of tobacco. Consequently in the interest of Public health the association urged its members to support programs which informed the Public of the dangers to health resulting from the excessive us of tobacco. In another Resolution the association urged its members to support or explore every Legisla Tive Means to establish standards of practice in pharmacy. In this regard or. Litvack said that Manitoba already Hac bylaws controlling the or minimal standards for the practice pharmacy but some other Vinces had yet to adopt similar aws. Members of the association vere also urged to subscribe to debentures of or which had now been authorized for the establishment of a can Adian Institute of pharmacy. Grounds. I would like to see the study on which he based his said the director of nurses at in Winnipeg general Hospital. Head nurses at Grace Hospital and Victoria Hospital had both read the article but refused to comment. Both said that they did not want to get themselves or then Hospital involved in any Way. Nursing director at the Miseri Cordia Hospital was unavailable for comment. More about Joudry continued from Page 1 More about Strauss continued from Page 1 convicts at a time. Friends up up to Purchase the old school building. In Bonn he was considered to be trying to use the possibility of he treaty increasing communist East Germany prestige As an emotional lever. Despite or. Strauss efforts Germany will agree to the Reaty and sign Ernest Maonica chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Bunde Stag said wednesday. Sellers takes off on scandal new York up _ a Long playing Peter Sellers record a taking the Profumo affair and other features of British life goes on Sale Here Friday. But a sketch fun at tie Royal family won t be on it. A spokesman for London rec ords incorporated subsidiary of British Decca limited said the sketch had been dropped be cause Advance reports had caused a number of protests. The record entitled foot Bri Tannia will be distributed in Canada by London records of Canada limited Montreal the spokesman Here said. But he said it still has not been desolate isolation if we do not sign we will go not into splendid isolation but desolate he added. One of or. Strauss arguments is that West Germany already has announced nuclear weapons. He cites a German declaration of 1954 to the Western euro Pean Union which says Germany will not undertake to manufacture on its territory any atomic Che Mical or biological weapons. But despite what or. Straus says this declaration does not go As far As the treaty. The treaty ays that signing nations under Ake to refrain from causing encouraging or in any Way participating in weapons testing. Under the simpler 1954 Declara Ion. West Germany could for example manufacture nuclear de vices in a foreign country such As Egypt or France or it could contribute funds toward French nuclear research. Will cited whether the record be sold in Britain. 9 besides Sellers a British actor and comedian the record features comedian Singer an Thony Newley Newley s wife actress Joan Collins and Dan Massey 29, son of Canadian born actor Raymond Massey. Plays Prince Philip Massey played the part of Prince Philip in the deleted Sec Tion a Takeoff on the incident in which Prince Charles was re ported to have drunk a Glass of Cherry Brandy in a scottish pub. Sellers who says that Only a prude could be offended by the record does a satire of prime minister Mac Iuan s re port to the House of commons on the Profumo matter. At one Point the prime min ister asked to give assurances that there has been no Security leak says operating in this country is one of the finest secret services in lie belongs to the when the uproar subsides he adds proudly that they could t have possibly have done such a Fine Job without the help of the British secret service. Columbia is second to Brazil in production and exports of cof fee. Los Angeles times ghost Gar protest filed away members of the Winnipeg p lice Coit Mission wednesday Quie by filed away a letter from Winnipeg resident who Sai ghost cars used by the cite police had no place in a demo cratic e. L. Weiss of 1150 Mach a Avenue said in a letter to Mayo Stephen Juba chairman of the commission that the use of the unmarked police cars was contrary to the Canadian Bui o rights. The Leitter urged that City coun cil. Reconsider the use of the cars for traffic duty or otherwise. Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey a com Mission member said that a a recent newspaper editorial the use of ghost cars had improved traffic in the they Are a Good the Alderman said. It the letter from or. Weiss said we should not be subject to continual secret surveillance traffic or otherwise by any police j orce. No doubt some people will say that this is the Only Way to control motorists. Such a belief is Frong because this is Only say ing the end justifies the Means which is communist doctrine pure and simple and has no place ill a democratic society the police commission had the letter filed As information. He said his wife wrote 45 major literary works dictated to her by the spirits of Shakespeare Shaw and Tols they hoped to sell the works to cover the Cost of the House renovations and to establish a new world religion. But none of the been sold. Steele said he his wife and two children came to Britain from Canada in 1957. They had lost Money on plays they produced Here. Questioned about miss Jou dry s playwriting output Steele said As far As i know it has never happened before in his wife took the plays Down in longhand from the voices she heard he said. She can produce a full length stage play in a week which is dictated to her by her spirit the official receiver said in the cold room of an offi Cial receiver s office this seems a tall it May seem arrant non but the works Are there for anyone who wants to read Steele said. The Case was put Over until oct. 24. On Csc miss Joudry 41, once one of the highest paid radio writers in the ., became a Model after her family moved to Montreal from spirit River. Later she went to Toronto where she wrote and acted in radio plays. In 1946 she was signed to write the Aldrich family a radio comedy series Broad cast from new York. Teach me How to cry one of several plays she wrote for a Csc sunday night series later became her first stage play and was produced in new York and London after it won honors at the Cana Dian Dominion drama Festi Val. The play was staged in Winnipeg by the Manitoba theatre Centre several seasons ago. Steele son of Toronto seed merchant r. C. Steele worked As a photographer and theatrical producer be fore the couple came to eng land. More about treaty continued from Page 1 hat the soviet Union should agree to measures for reducing tie possibility of conflict Over Berlin and for limiting the dangers of Surprise attack. Those were essentially the two positions that were explored and developed in Russia last week when Rusk conferred with Gromyko and Khrushchev. The main impression Rusk brought Back about his talks with the soviet officials was that Khrushchev is not urgently pressing for a non aggression Deal at this time. Breathing spell Authorities Are Uncertain Why Khrushchev wanted this breathing spell in the East West exchanges although they Wel come it. One speculation is that a needs time to assess the state of his conflict with red China another is that he wanted to be sure that the United states would ratify the est ban pact which is undergo ing hearings in the Senate for eign relations committee. It could mean Khrushchev recognizes that the United states my Britain need a few weeks n which to talk with their Al lies about the non aggression proposal. Khrushchev s proposed non aggression treaty is highly controversial within the Western Al Ance. 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