Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-05-29
RED CROSS NURSE
At CHAuTAUQUA
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 head
ache. or the pain of stiff congested
muscles? Can you turn crippled BOY
in bed, or tuck pillow under his tired
! knees so deity that his pain is less
| ened and he can sleep? Can you
| battle a 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 Chautauqua II
| bOXfOrd, Miss, on June ), comes mes
! Fage from National Red Cross Head
quarters.
The need for organized public
Health nursing in all parts of the
! limited States is very urgent. inns
| iact was conclusively proven by the
| I'M. lanza epidemic which swept with
! Buch terrific loss of life over the coun
try. 1t has also been brow Il out by
! 1.-The great numbers Of rejcct1-.a III the
nrmy draft. Six hundred thousand
| men in the United States Wee unable
! TO serve their country in is hour OF
alned because of minor PHI steal dis
qualifications which might have been
| femedied had compulsory school eX
| animation and medical and nursing
| attention been a recognized policy OF
! the nation some years ago.
| School nursing is but one OF the
many phases of a public health nurses
activities. She also does beside
nursing, visiting her patients usually
On an automobile and giving them
/ hourly nursing care. This service Is
particularly valuable in rural districts
where the attention Of graduate nurses
is almost impossible to secure. She
seonducts classes in Home Hygiene
and Care Of the Sick, and in Home
Dietitics. giving her classes instruc
ton in elementary nursing procedure
| and III proper selection and prepare
tion of food-what every wife and
4, mother should know, and what very
few rightly understand. She watches
pver expectant mothers, teaching
them how to care for themselves and
the little newcomer" so that when
he arrives he will have more than
possible five chances out of seven tc
| live And in every way possible she
directs the attention and the energy
of her community into furtherins
neighborhood health.
The Department Of Nursing at Ma.
tional Red Cross Headquarters
through it's representative on the Red
path Chautauqua Miss Fuller, is urg'
ing every woman and girl in the
United States to join in this crusade
for higher community health. If 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 If you are already q
| graduate nurse, and anxious to enter
this field, the Red Cross has 100000
available at National Headquarters in
Public Health Scholarship and loan
funds which will equip you for this
work But il you are just an ordinary
| WlI6 anu lHOtHeI, dHAiouo ooo'o GA
else to further the health and happt'
ness Of your family, take the Red
Cross Course of instruction. so that
YOU will nave 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 dar.ng thc Chautau
qua.