European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Army regulation on nurses outdated i am currently serving my tour of duty in saudi Arabia and am pleased that i can be kept abreast of the volatile world situation through your informative a newspaper. I was however disturbed by a recent article that stated that there is a Usa eur wide shortage of both registered and licensed practical nurses. A col. Nancy Nooney nursing consultant for the 7th medical come stated be Feinha Quot there Are nurses our _ there we could Call either she is not looking hard enough or the shortage is Novas bad As she Clairys i tend to believe the former rather than the latter. Please allow me to explain k. A Quot a y my wife is a registered nurse who received her nursing degree from an in North Carolina and subsequently passed her bar exam. Like Many army wives up her steady Job in North Carolina a Quot where there is also a critical nursing shortage a to come with me to Germany. R a a she applied to the fran Kfaft civilian personnel office a a a and was twice turned Down because she is a Canadian citizen with a degree from an american College it seems to me that she shul be Able to practice a nursing in an american military Hospital. A a a -. A a a a 1 a Quot i. A a a a. A a a a a. A a a. A a a a. A a a a a a a a a. A a r a if there is a regulation that is keeping my wife and. Others like her from coming to the Aid of our struggling medical support system then it is High time that. Regulation be altered. A any help you and your staff could provide in this matter will be greatly appreciated if not by my wife and myself. Then certainly by the Many soldiers arid family members who Are being deprived of proper medical care because of an outdated and close minded army regulation. A staff sgt Daniel r. Willey operation desert storm col. Nancy to Fooney 7th medical come nursing consultant replies a. This is a problem which we have addressed several v times during meetings with Usa eur. The difficulty. Seems to be that your wife is not a . Citizen and therefore is not eligible to be hired into the . Program which is restricted to u. S. Citizens. Your wife has spouse preference but Only for local National positions. A based on the fact that the German medical Law does. Not permit delegating certain functions to nurses the collective Tariff agreement Tai which applies to non-. Citizens must be structured accordingly. I am sorry that my reply cannot be More favourable but it is unrealistic to believe that Germany will alter its medical Law at this time. A a in addition even though there Are vacant professional nurse positions Many facilities Frankfurt has consistently been Able to keep its positions to write us readers action line is the readers Quot court of last resort Quot striving to answer some of the questions about life overseas in a military environment or questions about policies and guidelines when other avenues for answers Are not readily available. If you have a question and Don t know where to turn for the answer write to readers action line a othe stars and stripes. Apo 09211-4211. Alt letters must be signed and preference will be Given to those seeking information of general interest to our readers. By Caroline e. Mayer v Washington Post a a Gow no. 3 ambles into the milking parlor at Fulton md., and slowly takes her place inthe first stand by the door. While country music blares overhead the Holstein puzzles the Metal pol next to her head and patiently Waits to be milked. It is a Calm and peaceful scene a perhaps one of the few that can be found in the . Milk Industry. Stung by studies that have raised concerns Over milk s safety Hurt by nutritional concerns that have dampened consumption and bruised by Competition from soft drinks and bottled water. Milk has lost its innocence. A v. The simple and quiet times Are Long gone for what has often been called nature s most perfect for one thing Dairy Farmers and milk processors now Are gearing up to launch aggressive and sophisticated marketing campaigns to get Consumers to drink More milk a a. A a we can no longer assume every consumer wants to drink milk says Cynthia Carson chief executive officer of the National Dairy Board a congressionally approved organization that uses Dairy Farmer Money to promote the consumption of milk and other Dairy products. A the Industry needs to be More aggressive As at the same time Industry officials As Well As Federal and state regulators Are scrambling the Way they have monitored milk safety All these years in the United on the one hand state regulators Are upgrading their inspections of Dairy farms to ensure that Farmers Are not misusing drugs in treating their cows additionally. They Are running considerably More Laboratory tests to spot cases where drugs have been used improperly and per spa illegally. A. A a a meanwhile the Federal government is getting More a involved too. Up to now the food and drug administration has monitored the state tests but conducted no routine a Laboratory exams of its own. _ but under pressure from consumer groups and Congress the Fra next week will begin testing once a week for 11 different drug residues on five samples collected. Randomly from around the the Only thing in the milk Industry that has t changed significantly Over the past few years is the cow but that could happen too if the f a approves the use of a genetically eng metered growth hormone designed log increase a cow s milk production. The Fra had hoped to Rule on to re hormone a called Bovine Soma Tropin or but for Short a in Early 1991, but now Agency officials say a a Quot decision is about a year away. A. A a. With each passing Day however the controversy Over but seems to escalate As charges and counter charges swirl not Only Over the question of the drug s safety for both cows and their milk but also Over its Impact on Dairy farming. Some opponents charge that but would increase milk supplies push Down prices arid As a result drive some of the Small less efficient family farms out of business. A. Cow no. 3 seems oblivious to All this turmoil. Along with 17 other members of its Herd at Maple Lawn farms inc., she just stands quietly m the milking parlor waiting to be milked. For years we be treated milk As a commodity there was the feeling that there was a great big homogeneous society waiting for homogenized milk a says Carson of the National Dairy Board. A a we Felt there were plenty of Consumers and if there were not enough Consumers then the government would Purchase the milk Quot through its Price support program but times have changed and significantly at that Carson notes. I for one thing due to the Federal budget crunch the. Government is shelling out far less for Dairy Price supports in 1990, the last fiscal year for instance the government. A a spent about $480 million two years before that however a amps Wes booties the amount was almost three times As much a $1.3 billion. But that was Small compared with 1986 when the government spent $2.3 billion in Dairy Price supports. Equally significant is the shift in what kind of milk. Consumers Are drinking. For years Consumers Only wanted whole no but in 1989, As concerns about fat mounted american Consumers for the first time drank More now fat than whole milk. A a a on a per capita basis Consumers in the United states drank 92 pounds of whole milk and 95.5 pounds of Tow fat. Milk. Although Consumers to did to drink by the Glass and. Buy by the gallon the milk Industry measures its product in pounds for those who care 1 gallon weighs about 8.6 pounds with the exact weight depending on fat Content meanwhile there was a Steep increase in the. A a consumption of skim milk which Consumers had Long considered an inferior product. In 1989 the latest figures available Consumers drank 20.1 pounds of skim milk per capita a 24 percent increase from 1988 and nearly double the 10.6 pounds per capita consumed in 1983. What concerns the milk Industry is that in the shift to Low 0f non Terniuk Many Consumers have simply Cut out milk entirely. Page 16 the stars and stripes saturday february 16, 1991
