The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-29
RED CROSS NURSE
At CRAUTAUQUA.
MISS STELLA FULLER, OFFICIAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RED
CROSS DEPARTMENT OF NURS.
ING, WILL SPEAK ON PUBLIC
HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM.

| Have you strong hands, firm cool
fingers which can rub away a head.
ache, or the pain of stiff congested
muscles? Can you turn crippled boy
/ In bed, or tuck a pillow under his tired
knees so deity that his pain is less
ened, and he can sleep? Can you
battle patient in bed. and then rub
| him with alcohol to reduce his fever?
For if you have these faculties. or
even the desire to develop Them, the
Red Cross Department OF Nursing is
! calling for your services now
Through the Red Cross nurse who will
speak on the Redpath ChaItauqua in
| Slidell, La. on May Il, comes mes
sage from National Red Cross Head
quarters.
The need for organized public
health Nursing in IL parts of the
| United States is very urgent. This
fact was conclusively proven By the
influenza epidemic which swept with
such terrific loss Of life over the coun-
try. 1t has also been brought out by
the great numbers of reflections in the
Lrmy draft Six hundred thousand
men in the United States were unabla
to serve their country in its hour ct
need because of minor physical dis
qualifications which might have been
remedied had compulsory school ex.
animation and medical and nursing
n
tho nation some years ago.
School nursing is but one OF the
many phases Of . public health nurses
eetivtttes. She also does beside
nsrsine. visiting her patients usually
n "a automobile and giving them
hourly nursing care. This service IL
particularly valuable in rural districts
where the attention OF graduate nurses
b almest impossible to secure. She
conducts classes in Home Hygiene
and Care OF the Sick, and In Home
piettucs, giving her classes instruc-
ton Ia elementary nursing procedure
and In proper selection and prepare.
ten Of food-vhat every wife and
mother should know, and what very
sew rightly understand. She watches
over expeetant mothers, teaching
them how to care for themselves and
The little newcomer" 30 that when
he arrives he will have more than .
possible five chances out OF seven to
live. And in every way possible she
directs the attention and the energy
of her community into furthertng
neighborhood health.
The Department OF Nursing at Ma
tional Red Cross Headquarters
through its representative on the Red
path Chautauqua, Miss Fuller, is urg-
ing every woman and girl in the
United States to join in this crusade
tor higher community health. II you
are interested in nursing as profes.
sion. enter one Of the training schools
for nurses, many of which offer schol-
arships, and specialize in public
health work. II you are already :
graduate nurse, and anxious to enter
this field, the Red Cross has 100000
available at National Headquarters ID
/ uUlAC 110dAlA 0SAOAol oLip oAO AoAAA
funds which will equip you for this
work. But il you are just an ordinary
wife and mother, anxious above all
else to further the health and happi-
ness of your family, take the Red
Cross Course of instruction, so that
you will have knowledge of what you
can do to bring about "a healthier,
happier America of Today and Tomor.
row."
Whatever your chosen field may be.
hear the message from Red Cross Ma
tional Headquarters, relating to all
these phases of nursing which Miss
Fuller will deliver during the Chautau.
qua.
vvnere He ls.
NJ wonder what has become Of the