The 1970s
100 Years of Texas Nursing Magazine
Texas Nursing—Excellence in Editorial Content
Texas Nursing, August 1974
In 1974 Texas Nursing was honored by the American Journal of Nursing Company's publication competition for excellence in both editorial content and appearance.
TEXAS NURSING, TNA’S OFFICIAL PUBLICATION collected two awards in the American Journal of Nursing Company’s 1974 publications competition. The announcement was made in San Francisco prior to the ANA convention.
Cited for “excellence of total editorial content” and for “excellence of appearance,” the Texas publication competed against 15 other large state nurses associations. State associations are divided into three competitive groups according to membership totals; Texas was grouped among those with large memberships, Group 1.
Winning the “best feature article” award in Group 1 was the Massachusetts Nurses’ Association Bulletin.
President Dorothy Pettigrew and Fran Board, executive director, received the awards on behalf of TNA from Arthur Coladarci, AJN Awards Committee chairman, at a pre-convention banquet.
Judges for the competition included executives and editors of national publishing firms and magazines. TN
No-Smoking Policy Becoming A Habit
Texas Nursing, August 1973
WITHIN THE PAST YEAR, TNA, as an organization, has cleared the air on its position on the smoking and health issue.
Last fall, TNA became a member of the Texas Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, a voluntary group concerned with the problem of tobacco use in its affect on human health. Jeannette Nehring (District 7) was recently appointed as TNA’s representative to TICSH.
A no-smoking policy during board meetings is observed by TNA directors. This continued the policy established by the previous board.
More recently, TNA members at convention in Dallas overwhelmingly approved a resolution on smoking and health to “accept the responsibility to act in an exemplary role to reduce the smoking rate, first within the nursing profession, and ultimately in the general population. At the same convention, the general assembly area had a designated smoker’s section.
TNA’s membership has taken positive action based on the latest evidence. With increasing seriousness the evidence continues to mount.
Heavy smoking is taking an especially deadly heart toll among younger women, Dr. David M. Spain, a Brooklyn researcher reported in a recent American Health Association newsletter.
Autopsy studies twenty years ago showed that men under 51 years of age to be 12 times more vulnerable to sudden heart death than women within the same age bracket. The latest findings, from autopsies performed between 1967 and 1971, show that ratio has narrowed to 4 to 1.
Until the last decade or so, Dr. Spain explained, it was rare for women up to age 50, who were free of the risk factor associated with heart disease—such as diabetes, excess levels of blood fats and high blood pressure—to die suddenly from heart attacks. In the intervening years, however, there has been a significant increase in heavier cigarette smoking by women without any concomitant increase in the presence of other risk factors.
Consequently, Dr. Spain maintains that the fact women are now catching up to men in the incidence of sudden, unexpected death from heart attack seems to be attributable chiefly to the increase use of cigarettes among females. TN
1973 TNA Convention Draws a Crowd
Membership Campaigns to Uniforms
Clips from the 1970s provide a glimpse into TNA activities from membership campaigns to district board of directors meetings and even advertisements in Texas Nursing for uniforms and shoes.
