The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-05-17
RED GROSS NURSE I
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 a crippled boy
In bed, or tuck pillow under his tired
knees so deftly that his pain is less
ened, and he can sleep? Can you
bathe 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 in
Brookhaven Miss, on May %, comes
q message from National Red Cross
Headquarters.
The need for organized public
health nursing In all parts Of the
United States is very urgent. This
TACT was conclusively proven by the
influenza epidemic which swept with
such terrific loss Of life over the coun'
try. II has also been brought out by
the great numbers of reflections in the
army draft. Six hundred thousand
men In the United States were unable
to serve their country In its hour OF
need because Of minor physical dis
qualifications which might have been
remedied 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 public health nurses
activities. She also does beside
nursing, visiting her patients usually
IN 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
conducts classes in Home Hygiene
and Care OF the Sick, and in Home
Dietitics, giving her classes instruc-
tion in elementary nursing procedure
and In proper selection and prepara-
ton of food-what every wife and
mother should know, and what very
few rightly understand. She watches
over expectant mothers. teaching
them how to care for themselves and
the "little newcomer" so that when
he arrives he will have more than a
possible five chances out Of seven to
live. And In every way possible she
directs the attention and the energy
Of her community into furthering
nelghborhood health.
The Department OF Nursing at Ea-
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
for higher community health If you
are interested In nursing as a profes-
sion, enter one Of the training schools
for nurses, many Of which offer schol-
Rrships, and specialize in public
health work. II you are already a
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 viii equip you for this
work. But II you are just an ordinary
wife and mother, anxious above al
else to further the health and happ..
ness OF your family. take the Red
Gross Course Of instruction. 50 that
you win have kno FIedge OF what you
can do to bring about "a healthier,
happier America Of Today and Tomor-
row.
Whatever your chQahn field may Be,
hear the message ffon Cross Ma.
tional Headquarters, KeIAune e all
these phases Of nursing which Mss
Fuller win deliver during the chautau'
qua