The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-04-11
HEALTH BULLETIN
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there will be more Public Health
nurses employed by Cities, School
Boards, large industrial and other
organizations for the promotion OF
Public Health amongst the people.
Ely is not behind modern ideas In
this respect in that we have had a
school nurse for several years and
have now a city nurse both of whom
are doing Public Health work in It's
broad application. In order that
there may be better understanding
of what the Public Health nurse is
and what are her duties / am here
with giving definition of her as de-
fined by the National Organization
of Public Health Nurses. =
THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE.
What is a Public Health Nurse?
She is "a graduate nurse doing
any form of work in which the
health of the Public is concerned,
and in which her training as nurse
comes into play and is recognized as
a valuable part of her equipment"
She may be an infant welfare
nurse, a school nurse, a tubercu-
losis nurse, an industrial nurse, a
district or visiting nurse. If she
is working alone in small COM
munity or in a rural district, she
may combine these functions.
THE INFANT WELFARE NURSE
makes a systematic, regularly timed
visits to babies in the community,
keeping a watchful eye on their
progress, ready with the needed ad-
vice when they fall i'll with colds,
Group, bronchitis pneumonia or con-
tagious diseases. During the try
ing periods of teething and weaving;
and in the excessive heat, she gives
constant oversight and is always
urgent that the mothers seek advice
from the physician before illness. Res
comes acute. She holds weekly con-
ferences when mothers bring their
little ones to be weighed and ex-
amined by doctor, and helps them
understand his advices about feed
ings and simple treatments. She
holds mothers meetings or talks to
mothers clubs about the care and
feeding of children.
She visits the children under
school age whose interests are too
often lost sight of in the face of
the more pressing needs of the little
babies. Between the ages of two
and five, bones are soft and easily
bent; delicate stomachs are subjected
too often to the diet of adults, and
Indigestion develops which paves the
way for more: serious disturbances
later in life. Failure to care for the
first teeth causes decay, resulting in
increased liability to infectious dis
ease, poor second teeth, and i'm
paired digestion. Children are more
susceptible and most exposed to the
communicable diseases and the COM
plications of the communicable dis
ease, such as pneumonia, weak hearts,
kidney trouble, deafness, impaired
vision and tuberculosis; all take
their toll of child life and vigor to a
large extent before children reach
school age.
THE SCHOOL NURSE assists
the school doctor in his med
ical inspection of the children. She
carries home his advice to the parents
Of any child who is not perfectly
well, explains what the trouble is and
what may be done to relieve it. She
instructs the child with a weak back
in those exercises which will make
him strong and straight. She helps
the mother plan the right dietary fo1
an undernourished child. She seeks
to remove the causes of eye strain
and headache by securing better
lighting and ventilation. She holds
frequent inspections of the children
to discover unclean heads, decayed
teeth, and other conditions which in.
terfere with good health, good tenn.
per and good school work, she teach.
es the children to work for good
health at home and at school.
THE TUBERCULOSIS NURSE
assists the. doctor at clinics, to which
she has persuaded suspected case.
and those who have been exposed tc
the diseases to come. She visit:
clinic patients in their homes, show
ing the families how to carry out
the doctors orders for the care Of
the patient, and the protection Of
the rest of the family. She give.
nursing care to those who are con
fined to bed while she is making ar
rangements for their removal to hos
pital or sanatorium. She seeks tt
get aid for those unable to work
in short, she is guide, philosopher anc
friend to the victims of this mos
dreaded and most universal of dis
eases, and endeavors to protect the
health of all who through their daily
contact are exposed to it.
THE INDUSTRIALsNURSE look.
after the health of the workers in 1
factory, store, mime, or mill. She
attends to the little accidents ano
injuries that occur during the days
work, and also co-operates with the