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Santa Anas,
fires destroy
25 homes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
dreaded Santa Ana winds raked the
region Thursday with gusts up to 80
mph, fanning fires that destroyed 25
homes and damaging Rose Parade
floats.
About two dozen homes and
buildings also were damaged by the,
blazes but no serious injuries were
reported, authorities said. Gusts
toppled six trucks on highways to
the east and cut power to more than
300,000 people.
"We lost everything — the house,
the cars,” said Dan Hanlon, 49, of La
Verne, who fled with his wife. "We
were lucky to get out. We had to
drive through flames."
Generated by high pressure over
Idaho and a low over Baja Califor
nia, winds swept much of California
and Nevada but were most destruc
tive in the lx>s Angeles basin and to
the east where they roar down from
the desert through the mountain
ranges and become known jis the
Santa Anas.
Fifteen homes burned up and five
commercial buildings were damaged
in Baldwin Park, 20 miles northeast
of Los Angeles, when 75 mph gusts
snapped power lines shortly after
mianight and ignited a fife at Allan
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DALLAS (AP) — American Medi
cal Association officials said that de
spite objections by some nurses’
groups, they will carry out plans to
set up training for a new category of
worker to perform chores such as
emptying bedpans and delivering
meals.
The decision about “registered
care technologists" was made
Wednesday by the association’s 422-
member House of Delegates, the
group's policy-making body.
-Lucille Joel, president of the
American Nurses Association, told
an AM A House of Delegates com
mittee Monday that her organization
would not cooperate.
Joel and other nursing leaders
have argued that RCTs, trained to
provide bedside care such as emp
tying bedpans or delivering meals,
would onlv duplicate work already
performed by nurses aides and li
censed vocational nurses.
Hospitals should instead hire
more workers to stock cabinets and
perform other tasks unrelated to pa
tient care that have fallen upon
nurses, Joel said.
But Dr. James Sammons, exec
utive vice president of the AMA,
said Wednesday that just because the
nurses association doesn’t want to
cooperate doesn’t mean nurses don’t
want to.
“I’m sorry Lucille said that, be
cause she now has driven the wedge
even deeper," Sammons said at a
news conference after the final ses
sion of the House of Delegates semi
annual meeting in Dallas.
“An RGT is not a nurse.” said
AMA trustee Dr. Joseph Painter, a
vice president of M.p. Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston. “It’s not
meant to be a nurse, and it’s not
meant to replace a nurse.”
An RCT advisory committee
made up of doctors, nurses and hos
pital officials will convene in Jan
uary. Painter said the first pilot pro
gram should begin by mid-1989.
While the AMA delegates agreed
that they must investigate short-term
and long-term solutions to the na
tional nursing shortage, the New
York delegation proposed dropping
any reference to RC.Ts.
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Abuse
Continued from page 1)
tity. Wilkins said she can’t recall a
case where the plaintiff s name was
revealed.
“After receiving the referral, the
caseworker writes up a report and
determines how serious an abuse it
is,” Wilkins said.
“If we believe that the child is in
immediate danger,” she said, “then
the case is a priority one and accord
ing to state guidelines we have to see
the family within 24 hours. How
ever, our unit policy is to go immedi
ately after receiving the call.”
If the caseworker believes the
child is in danger, but not immediate
danger, it is a priority two case and
the caseworker has 10 days to see the
family.
Age has a lot to do with how se
rious an abuse is.
“For instance, if we get a call on an
infant who has a black eye, we go
right away, but a 16-year-old with a
black eye we can make a priority
two,” Wilkins said.
“Infants and up to school age have
no way of protecting themselves.
These are the reports we have to act
on immediately, she said.
Wilkins said evemhing the DHS
does is a two-man deWsion.
After receiving a referral, if the
caseworker believes that the child is
in immediate danger, she calls her
supervisor and a decision is made on
what to do.
“If we believe the parent isn’t able
to protect the child and that the child
is going to be hurt further, we will
remove the child from the home,”
she said. <
“When we remove a child from
the home, we present the parents
with a formal notification telling why
we believe it is necessary and inform
theparents to get a lawyer.”
The next working day after case
workers remove a child, they must
appear in court with an affidavit stat
ing why the removal was necessary.
If the judge decides that there are
grounds for a removal, a hearing is
set.
If the state wins the hearing, the
DHS decides whether or not the
child should remain under DHS care
or enter foster care.
Also decided on by the DHS are
the specific visiting times for the par
ents.
Wilkins said that after a trial pe
riod of about six months, she will re
view the case and if all the stipula
tions are met, the child can be
returned to the home.
“There’s not a better place for a
child to be than with (he family, if
that family is able to protect the
child,” Wilkins said.
Other agencies that receive re
ports of child abuse are churches,
the police department, Mental
Heahn and Mental Retardation,
Family Outreach, Family Awareness
and Friends of the Family.
However, these agencies are re
quired by law to report cases of child
abuse or neglect to DHS.
Family Outreach and Family
Awareness work in the community
in a preventive effort to combat child
abuse and neglect.
Julie Buffington, a child protec
tive service specialist working with
Family Outreach, works with high-
risk families.
“If someone reports a case to
DHS, but no abuse or neglect has oc
curred, they refer it to us or another
agenev,” Buffington said.
If the family wants help, Buffing
ton assigns a volunteer. She said ev
ery four out of 10 want help.
All of Family Outreach’s services
are provided by volunteers. The vol
unteers have criminal and back
ground checks done on them and go
utrough an extensive 18-hour train
ing program.
\
The volunteers work with the
family as a teacher and role model in
the home.
“For instance, right now we are
working with a 14-year-old mother,
so the volunteer is really just teach
ing her how to be a mother,” Buf
fington said.
If someone can work with the
family before any serious problems
occur, usually an abusive situation
can be avoided, she said. k
“Prevention is the key,” she said.
Molly Archer, a caseworker with
Family Awareness, said she teaches
parents there is a difference between
discipline and punishment.
“Many parents I deal with are
good people," Archer said. “They
just get frustrated with a child and
don’t know what to do.
“A child pushes the parents too
far and they strike out at the child.
Something that might be said at this
p>int is T wish you were never
oorn.’”
T he average parent thinks child
abuse is battering the child, she said.
The parent doesn’t see the emo
tional abuse or understand it.
“Many families I work with have
other problems beside parenting
problems, such as budgeting money
or running the household. Archer
said. “I try to work with those prob
lems also, in an effort to alleviate
some of the pressures put on the
family.”
However, she said that sometimes
she is unable to get with the family
before an abuse occurs and she has
to call DHS.
“I had a parent call and tell me she
was having problems with her child,"
Archer said. “Halfway through the
conversation, the lady let go of the
telephone and I could hear her beat
ing the child.”
Illegal netting
decreases
in Texas bays
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Ille
gal gill-netting of fish in coastal bays
has decreased drastically since Sept.
1, when a new state regulation took
effect banning all nets in salt water
according to a state agency.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart
ment Figures for a comparison of
October 1987 and October 1988
show an 81 percent decline in the
amount of illegal netting seized, said
Jim Robertson, supervisor of coastal
Taw enforcement with the agency in
Austin.
Records show 30,900 feet of gill
nets were confiscated during that
month of 1987, compared to 5,800
feet in October 1988.
Robertson said the illegal netting
appears to have declined because of
a combination of the netting ban and
a one-year sting operation centered
at Port Lavaca that culminated last
July.
Parks and Wildlife filed 287 cases
statewide against fishermen, restau
rants and wholesale businesses for il
legally purchasing or selling redfish
and speckled trout.
Commercial fishing of redfish
and speckled trout is il&gal in Texas.
Outlaw fishermen appear to be
setting fewer nets and fish markets
are wary of buving speckled trout or
red fish, Robertson told the Corpus
Ch risti Culler- Times.
Gill nets contain meshes that allow
the head of a fish to enter, but en
tangle it as it tries to withdraw. I ^
Gary Young, a game warden at
the agency's Corpus Christ i law en
forcement office, said one result of
the netting ban has been for 6s her-
men to switch to setting trollines.
Trotlines are legal in Texas but
far less efficient than gill nets.
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