The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-05
RED CROSS NOTES.
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Public Health Nurses Needed.
Twenty thousand public health
nurses are needed in America. The
Red Cross is making every effort to
supply accredited nurses to the COM
munities ready to use them, but it is
essential that only such nurses as
have had the prescribed public health
training be used.
The Red Cross has provided for a
scholarship fund for giving to eradu-
ate nurses the necessary training
which shall fit them for public health
work, and all nurses desiring to enter
this field may do so without lnaseflal
loss either of time Or Ct money.
To conduct systematic public
health nursing successfully special
technical instruction is needed and
the Red Cross feels that community
anterest can not be fully served un-
less nurses having this instruction
are used for public health work.
At the general federation of Wo-
mems clubs which met at Asheville,
N. c., during June, several States de-
cided to raise club scholarships for
this purpose. Among these States it
is interesting to note South Carolina
listed as one, the federation of that
State having voted four scholarships
for public health nursing; three of
which are to be given through the
State department of nursing.
Newly Appointed Field Representa-
tives.
The Red Cross division department
of nursing has made some recent val
liable additions to it's personnel with
a view to increasing the interest in
public health work and also to pro-
noting health education through
nursing classes held throughout the
division.
A newly appointed field represen-
tative is Miss Ruth A. E. Adamson.
who will visit the chapters through
out the division in the interest of
public health nurse for each locali-
ty. Miss Adamson is graduate of
Johns Hopkins hospital, has seen SER
vice abroad with the Hopkins unit
during the war and for several years
after graduation from the Johns
Hopkins Training school for nurses
was actively engaged in the depart
ment of hospital social service.
A second worker in this same field,
who has been added to the depart
ment of nursing is Miss Virginia Ma
son Gibbes of Columbia, S. c., a Red
Cross nurse herself, who has been
associated with the town and coun-
try nursing service in the regional
territory of Illinois and North Caro-
lima, and who has had the very val
liable experience derived from pub
lie health course taken in Toronto,
Canada, with the Victorian Order.
Miss ,Gibbes received special permis-
sion from the American Red Crsos to
undertake trip for the Victorian
Order and the experience gained by
her in the Canadian field, when she
visited some .62 different towns, has
proven to be educational in the high
est degree.
A graduate of Roper City hospital,
Charleston, Miss Gibbes is Southern
woman who understands the needs
of her present territory, this under
standing having been strengthened
by. her work during 1917 and 1918
in the government cantonment zone
surrounding Camp Jackson.
1t is safe to predict that the work
of both Miss Gibbes and Miss Adam
son will add materially to the eff
cheney of the health organization. in
the Southern division.
The work of field representative
consists of reaching each chapter in
given territory; directing the work
of. the nursing committee, encourag-
ing the work of the school nurse and
emphasizing particularly the value of
follow up visits to interest the
mothers in the necessary corrective
measures; in short educating COM
munity to the great benefit to be de-
rived from the regular service of a
public health nurse and thus promot-
ing community health through the
recognized channels of sanitation,
preventive measures and public
nealth supervision.
Mrs. L. w. Floyd,
Publicity Chairman.
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