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Beverly Hugo talks with Karen Brewster on March 15, 2005 in Fairbanks, Alaska about...
1) Background information and becoming a health aide.
birthdate\ birthplace\ Fairbanks\ parents -- Edwardsen, Charlie and Mary\ siblings -- number of\ childhood -- Barrow\ boarding school -- Mt Edgecumbe\ Hugo, Patrick -- husband\ Anaktuvuk Pass -- moved to\ Hugo, Jeffery -- first son\ son -- illness\ Anaktuvuk Pass -- conditions\ health aide -- becoming\ health aide -- training\ supervisor -- Leavitt, Sonya\ Barrow\ training -- completion\ basic tools\ communication system -- ham radio\ Tanana Hospital -- care center|
2) Communication systems used between health aides and doctors.
communication system -- satellite phone\ school\ telephone -- medical traffic\ Dr. James, William\ Tanana\ Elterman, Dr. Floyd\ Brown, Dr. George\ supplies -- Tanana\ Anchorage -- Alaska Area CHAP Program\ Burgess, Dr. Rob\ Dr. Whitaker -- CHA manual\ school -- freeze-up\ Anaktuvuk Pass -- no clinic\ manual -- guide\ emergency situation -- ham radio\ satellite phone -- Nunamiut store\ woman -- giving birth\ Tanana Hospital|
3) The beginning of the Anaktuvuk Pass Clinic and becoming a health aide.
North Slope Borough -- Mayor\ Hopson, Eben\ Anaktuvuk Pass\ clinic -- beginning\ clinic -- conditions\ water -- running\ telephone\ equipment\ supplies\ salary\ caregiver -- quality\ sister\ accident -- chainsaw\ mother -- educator\ God -- faith in\ Gates of the Arctic National Park -- hikers\ National Park Service -- employees\ North Slope Borough -- employees\ help -- providing to everyone|
4) Rescues and helping people when they needed it.
rescue missions\ Chandler Lake -- hikers\ weather -- bad\ mountains -- helicopter\ fear\ treatment -- at clinic\ hiker -- Indiana\ Gates of the Arctic National Park\ woman -- diabetic\ illness\ diagnosis\ Anaktuvuk Pass -- clinic\ illness -- treatment\ treatment -- IV\ patient -- non-beneficiary\ people -- service to\ airplane -- charter\ helicopter -- lack of fuel\ Bunce, Dr. Michael\ prayer\ airplane -- Nenana Fuel Company\ rescue -- medivac\ Fairbanks\ children -- carry with\ people -- helping|
5) Combining the lengthy Health Aide training and her family responsibilities.
parents\ Barrow\ childcare\ son\ training -- health aide\ training -- length of\ training -- Anchorage\ training -- hands-on\ babies -- delivering\ baby delivery -- emergency call\ experience -- use of\ emergency -- kits\ husband -- support of|
6) Dealing with death.
death -- first encounter\ death -- elderly gentleman\ small girl -- SIDS\ police\ Barrow\ conflict -- releasing the body\ patients -- knowing\ village -- being from|
7) Working with doctors and differences in diagnoses.
daughter -- birth\ Barrow -- stayed in\ mother -- young\ Anaktuvuk Pass\ baby -- sick\ health aides -- alternate\ doctor -- on-call\ baby -- difficulty breathing\ mistreatment -- parents accused of\ doctor -- conflict with\ family -- knowledge of\ baby -- brought in for immediate care\ Tanana\ Department of Children-Youth Services\ baby -- medical records\ disease -- bowel obstruction\ [Hirsch-Schprung] disease\ disease -- intestinal disorder|
8) Taking care of terminal patients in the village and dealing with suicide in villages.
patient care\ patients -- Cancer\ patients -- stay at home\ death -- peaceful\ hospital\ death -- die alone\ care -- home\ care -- family\ patient -- young cancer\ tragedy\ prayer\ suicide\ cases -- hardest\ faith\ suicide -- bad solution to a temporary problem\ suicide -- effect of\ community\ counseling\ death -- alcohol related|
9) Counseling training she received while she was a health aide.
death -- dealing with\ grief\ counseling\ workshop -- Kubler Ross, Elizabeth\ grief -- traditional practices\ children -- no favorites\ infant mortality -- rate of\ love\ child -- lose of\ health aide -- job\ employment -- length of\ training\ school -- Physicians Assistant\ Tanana Hospital -- closure\ Fairbanks Memorial Hospital\ care -- quality of\ care -- specialists\ medical care -- Tanana Chiefs Conference\ care -- assessment of\ Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center, Fairbanks\ staff -- Athabascan|
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