Professor - Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing

jjMiss Leininger Is Head
Of New Nursing Council
The appointment of Miss
Madeleine Leininger, assistant
professor in the University of
Cincinnati College of Nursing
and Health, and director of the
advanced program in psychiatric
nursing at UC, as chairman of
the recently organiz·ed local In­
·terdivisional Council on Psychiatric·
and Menta!' Health Nursing,
was announced yesterday.
This gi;oup was organized to
pr.ovide more effective nursing
care for mentally ill patients.
' ,Other officers are Miss Janet
Hawley, administrator of nursing
service at Rollman Receiving
Hospital, vice chairman; Miss
Helen Plogsted, head nurse, UC
College of Nursing and Health,
secretary; Dr. Charles Hofling;
assistant professor of psychiatry,
UC College of Medicine, and
Miss Helen Hayward, secretary
of the Mental Health Council,
-executive committee.
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Professor At UC
Wins Fellowship
ing and the Child Guidance
Home.
With UC since 1954, Miss
Leininger r e c e i v e d her
bachelor of science in 1950
from Mt. St. Scholastica COllege,
Atchison, Kans., and her
MISS · MADELEINE LEIN- number of these docto11al master of science in nursing
INGER, associate profess?r of fellowships each year. i.t: 1953 from ,catholic 'l!nivern.ursing
a.r:d .health, Umver- Miss Leininger is chairman sity of Amenca, Washmgt?E·
sity of cmcm- . . . ./"

UC Child Nursing Pioneers
By Dee Stuerenberg groups to cope with or under- opportunity to a · nurse, both Since 1943, when. the fir~ t
Enquire1· Reporter stand the behavior patterns of financially anc~ in the field of gra.duate program m psych!-
. . . work." Salaries are compa- atr1c nursmg ever offer,ed to
A NEW GATEW.t\Y has ~en the emotmnally disturbed child. rable to those offered to any- nurses was opened at the
opened to wo~en .m nursm~, Under the specialized course, one holding a master's degree. Catholic University of Amerand
.the rout.e ~s VI3: the Um- a year and a half is devoted The nurse can go into research, ica, the profession has made
vers1ty . of Cmcmnati's College solely to the study of children. teaching, consultation or active 1
great strides in providing more
of Nursmg and Health. During the first six months the work with the children. "Herl and better opportunitie·s for
Unde_r the d.ir~ction of Miss normal child is observed' and fie~d. is unlimited," feels Miss women in n~rsing, .Particularly
Madeleme Lemmger of the studied extensively in ever~ Lemmger. · UC women m nur.smg.
nurses' graduate school of UC, .stage of development. The ~-~--·
a graduate cou!'se in child psy- last year is spent in the newlychiatric
nursing was launched established Chi 1 d Guidance
in September at the college. Center, where intensive work
UC is one of the first schools is done with emotionally disin
the country to offer such a tut~bed youngsters. The work
program.
leads to a master's degree.
National attention has been "The demand for child psyfocused
on the school as it pre- chiatric nurses within the next
pares nurses to work as clinical few .Years w!ll be . t~emend~~s,"
specialists with emotionally dis- contu~ued M1ss ~mmger. We
turbed children in residential are first begmmng to prepare
treatment centel'S. for t~1is de.mand." She add.ed
"Treatment of the emotional- that ~n C?hm al?ne three child
ly disturbed child is as old as psych~atr~c ~OS)=lltals are under
psychiatry" ·stated the UC pro- constiuctJO:l, m Dayton, Co-
" ' . lumbus and Cleveland. Many
f~ssor, bu~. the approach IS en- requests for information on
t1rel;y new.. .
the courses here have been
M1ss Lemmger went on to received from all over the
say that up to th!s time, their country by the college.
care was placced m the hands "As the program becomes
~f regular nurses, non-profes- more widely known and more
swnal attendants and volunteer nurses learn of its existence "
workel'S. The main problem el!- Miss Leininger declared, "e~countered
has been the rapid rollment will increase."
turnover in staff members due "The progracm," she con-I
to the inability of these three tinued, "offers a wide scope of
. ....
MISS MADELEINE LEININGER
• • • heads new branch in nursing

WOrkshop Set
F N
11;4-tj -lf~O
1
or urses
nursing and health, is chairman
of the workshop, assisted
by Dr. Othilda Krug,
Child Guidance Home Director
and UC associate professor
of psychiatry; Miss Helen
sutton, uc assistant professor
of nursing and health, and
Miss Mary Ann Hertz, uc
graduate student in psychiatric
nursing.
THE PROGRAM is focused
on clinical nursing problems
of emotionally d i s t u r b e d
SlJTTON LEININGER children. Special training re-
A SELECTED 100 nurses quirements for this field are
from Ohio, Kentucky, Ind- comparatively recently recogiana,
Michigan, nunois, and nized.
Tennessee will attend a pi- "Until recently little trainoneering
child psychiatric ing has been devoted to dealnursing
workshop in Cincin- ing directly with behavior
nati May 27 and 28. problems through the actual
The first such program in daily care of emotionally disthis
region, the workshop is turbed children," Dr. Krug
sponsored by the University commented. She has pioof
Cincinnati College of Nurs- neered in expanding the
ing and Health's graduate traini~g o.~ nu;ses and psyprogram
in psychiatric nurs- chiatr~sts m this special area
ing and the Child Guidance for children.
Home joint activity of the "Youngsters cannot be
Jewish Hospital uc depart- treated as 'miniature' adult~,''
ment of psychiatry, and Dr. Krug said. "Their special
community Chest, with sup- needs and problems as !e·
port from the Ohio division vealed through their behav10r
of mental hygiene. must be understood and
Miss Madeleine Leninger, handled on the spot.
uc associate professor of "THE MANAGEMENT of
disturbed behavior in appropriate
concrete tangible ways
around everyday activities is
· especially therapeutic since
the grown-up is then communicating
with the child on
his own level through helpful
actions and deeds-which
speak louder than words. For
this type of therapeutic work
w i t h children, specialized
training and experience are
imperative." ,
UC's training program in
child psychiatric nursing is
one of only three of this kind
in the nation and the first in
this area.
Others are at
Wayne State University, Detroit,
and Boston University.
t The workshop will specif- ~
! ically aid nurses who are
l now working with emo­
: tionally disturbed children in
state hospitals and institutions,
and also graduate students
in adult and child psychiatric
nursing training.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP
In this group are members of the planning committee for the
two-day psychiatric nursing institute and workshop to be held
Thursday and Friday at the Cincinnati Veterans Administration
Hospital. Left to right af'e Miss Gertrude Chereskavich,
assistant chief of nursing education at the hospital; Mrs.
Florence Hennessey, chief of nursing service at the hospital;
Miss Clara M. Gilchrist, associate professor of nursing, and
director of graduate. nurse programs in the UC College of
Nursing and .Health, and Miss Madeleine Leininger, assistant
professor of nursing and director of advanced program in
psychiatric nursing in the UC college. The college and VA
hospital nursing service are co-sponsors of the program.
Institute And Workshop Set
For Leaders In Psychiatry
Local and visiting experts professor of nursing, Ohio State
will contribute to a regional University Sct1ool of Nursing,
Columbus; Mrs. Boggs Mann,
two-day psychiatric nursing in- UC instructor in psychiatric sostitute
and workshop to be cial work; Miss Charlotte Bursponsored
by the UC College of · pee, acting occupational therap­
Nursing and Health and the ist in psychiatry, Cincinnati
Cincinnati Veterans Adminis- General Hospital, and Miss Avis
tration Hospital Nursing Serv- Haley, nursing service chief,
ice Thursday and Friday at the Ft. Thomas VA hospital; Dr.
hospital. "Helping The Nurse Murray Tiegar, assistant chief
Grow With The Changing Con- of clinical psychology at the
cepts In Dynamic Psychiatric Cincinnati VA hospital; Mrs.
Nursing" will be the theme of Almira Ockerman, associate
the institute.
professor of nursing at UC and
Speakers will be: Dr. Maur- nursing service director at Genice
Levine, director of the Uni- eral Hospital; Dr. Harold Hiatt,
versity of· Cincinnati's depart- assistant professor of psychiament
of psychiatry; Dr. W. try at UC and psychiatric serv­
Dortald Ross, associate profes- ice chief at the VA hospital;
sor of psychiatry, UC; Miss Miss Madeline Leininger, UC as­
Olga Weiss, associate editor of sistant professor of nursing;
the Nursing Outlook, New York Miss Florence Harvey, assist­
City; Dr. Stanley Kaplan, ·di- ant professor of nursing at
rector of the psychosomatic di- Ohio State University School
vision of the UC departments of Nursing; Sister Marie Fideof
psychiatry and medicine. lis, psychiatric service supervi-
Group session leaders will be sor, Good Samaritan Hospital;
Dr. Charles Hofling, UC assist- Miss Gertrude Chereskavich,
ant professor of psychiatry; nursing education assistant
Miss Eleanor Lewis, associate chief at the VA Hospital.

Reprinted from The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, Thursday, May 7, 1959
UC Lists Staff Changes,
2 Major Appointments
Two major faculty appointments
and a number
of staff chang€s have been
announced by the University
of Cincinnati.
Peter Hugh Nash, a specialist
in city planning, has
been named to head the
new UC department of
geography. John P. Pauls,
authority on Slavic languages,
will be UC's first
associate professor of Russian
languages and literatures.
The appointments are
effective Sept. 1.
Honorary emeritus titles
have been bestowed on Dr.
Julien E. Benjamin, professor
emeritus of clinical
medicine, and Chesley M.
Hutchings, professor emer·
itus of romance languages
and literatures.
With departments indicated , these
promotions will go into effect Sept. 1:
McMicken College of Arts and Scl­
~nces--Rollin W. Workman (philosophy)
and Roderick J. Senter (psychology),
from Instructor to assistant professor;
Alfred B. Kristofferson (psychology),
from assistant professor to associate
Professor.
College Of Law-William B. Jeffrey
Jr., from asociate professor and law
librarian to professor and law librarian.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
-Ferdinand D. Bedard, from assistant
professor to associate professor; Campbell
Crockett, from associate professor
and assistant dean to professor and as­
>istant dean: Arno Jaeger and Carl A.
Lu de ke, from associate professor to
professor.
College of Business Administration­
Robert E. Dillon and Wayne S. Overmyer.
from associate professor to profes­
•or; John M. Kuhlman, from assistant
professor to associate professor.
Wo~~~leH. 8 Jo~~s E~~~~~ 0 A;;;;B~!~ne~e:~~
Leonard F. Swilt, from assistant profes·
sor to associate professor; Frank E.
Liguori and Nancy Nunnally, from associate
professor to professor.
College of Engineering-Widen Taba·
koff (aeronautical) and David Mazkewitsch
(engineering graphics), from In·
structor to assistant professor{· Nathan
Gilbert (chemical and meta lurgical),
from associate - professor to professor;
Michael Hoch' (chemical and metallurigig~nka~~r~~~
JovJli~~~elp~~1~~).ni;;di.; aans~
sistant professor to associate professor.
Department of Co-ordination and Placement-John
R. Martin and Graham w.
Smith, from instructor to assistant professor:
Raymond W. Renn, from associate
professor to professor.
College of Nursing and Health-Chris·
tine Whitney (biological and physical sciences),
from assistant to dean, and assistant
professor to assistant to dean,
and associate -professor: M. Corinne
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