A Tour of the Wellness Center at Point Loma Nazarene University
By Jean Benthien, M.S.N., C.R.N.P., Director of Health Services, Point
Loma Nazarene University Wellness Center, San Diego, CA
About the Author:
Jean Benthien CRNP, MSN is a San Diego native. She and her husband
live a short two blocks from campus. Jean received her BSN from San Diego
State many years ago and an MSN from the University of San Diego in 1986.
She is a California licensed Nurse Practitioner and a nationally certified
College Health Nurse. Jean has been the Director of Health Services
at Point Loma Nazarene University since 1977 and has seen many changes.
She is active in local, regional and national professional organizations
and serves on several boards. She is recognized as having expertise in
small college health services and has been instrumental in development of
standards and policies for such services. With her daughters married
and living in Redwood City and Seattle, Jean enjoys frequent plane trips.
Reading, gardening, antiquing and traveling are her favorite things to do.
Jean is grateful to the Lord for the privilege and gift of a profession
that puts her in contact with so many wonderful students.
Hi, I am Jean Benthien, CRNP, Director of Health Services at Point
Loma Nazarene University (PLNU)Wellness
Center. This article will introduce you to our new (1 year old)
Wellness Center, but first I would like to give you a bit of history of the campus and the health
service.
To procede on the tour of the Wellness Center,
complete
with pictures
of the following areas, simply click on the following selections:
Hope you have enjoyed your tour of our Wellness Center. It has brought us
great joy. Issues of cleanliness, confidentiality, professional
standards, and livability have been met with this facility. Counseling
and Health Services have learned to work together as a team and become one
unit. Visibility and credibility have been enhanced. Visit anytime and
we will treat you to Starbucks coffee served next door!
Be sure to visit us also on our web site:
www.ptloma.edu/studentdevelopment/wellnesscenter/
Unlike the Wellness Center, the web site will always be under
construction and changing often! My email address is
jbenthie@ptloma.edu if you have
any comments or questions.
Editor's Note:
I had the privilege of visiting the Wellness Center at Point Loma when
the
ACHA meeting was held in San Diego in June 1998. The spectacular sunset
view of the vast Pacific ocean is a memory I cherish. I found the entire
campus to be beautiful and inspiring.
On the lawn near the road by the Commons building is
an impressive bronze metal sculpture of Jesus calling Peter. The
boat, the nets, the reaching hand of Jesus, and the facial expressions of
the characters portrayed in this sculpture are extraordinary. Like the
sunset on the Pacific Ocean, it is something I want to keep in my
memory.
Jean's new health center is every nurse
director's dream...and then some! But as I reflect on the tour of her
health center, and the wonderful dinner and hospitality we were shown,
what impressed me the most was the warm welcome and hospitality we
received from Jean and her staff.
I
think that one of the most important things we can offer
to students in college health is a warm, welcoming, caring atmosphere
whenever they come into the health center--whether the building is old or
new. The new building at Point Loma adds credibility, visibility and
professional atmosphere to a health care setting which already features a
welcoming, educated, and caring professional staff...who have a special
calling. In my opinion, it just
doesn't get any better than that!
Congratulations, Jean, on your new Wellness Center, and on 22
dedicated and wonderful years of caring service in college health!
--Carol Mulvihill, BSN, RN-C, Editor of Connections Quarterly
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