Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-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 a 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 Tor your services now.
Through the Red Cross nurse who will
speak on the Redpath Chautauqua IN
Okolona, Miss, on June II, comes
message from National Red Cross
Headquarters.
The need for organized public
health nursing in all parts Of the
United States is very urgent. THU
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
army draft. Six hundred thousand
men in the United States were unable
to serve their country in its hour oil
need because of minor physical dis
qualifications which might have been
remedied had compulsory school ex
animation and medical and nursing
attention been recognized policy oil
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
N an automobile and giving them
hourly nursing care. This Service Ia
particularly valuable in rural districts
where the attention of graduate nurses
is almost impossible to secure. She
conducts classes in Home HygisIe
and Care Of the Sick, and in Elop-
Dietitics, giving her classes i':Strur-
ton in elementary nursing procedure
and in proper selection Snd prepare
ton Of food--what ?. cry wife and
mother should kDsw, 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
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
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
for higher community health. If you
are interested in nursing as a profess
sion, enter one of the training schools
for nurses, many of which offer schol'
Rrships, and specialize in public
health work If you are already a
graduate nurse. and anxious to enter
this field, the Red Cross has 500, 900
available at National Headquarters in
Public Health Scholarship and loan
funds which win equip you for this
work But If 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 nave knowledge OF what you
can do to bring about "a healthier,
happier America of Today and Toner
row" g.
whatever your chosen field may be-
hear the message from Red Cross Ma
tlonal Headquarters, relating to all
these phases Of nursing which Miss
Fuller will deliver during tho ChautaR
qua.