Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-31
HEALTHNUR',S''EE;
!. GUARDS
FROM DISEASE
Unassuming Efforts in Va
ried Activities is Lot Of
Westinghouse

The public health nurse is tho
guardian against disease in a COM
munity. not especially the fighting
force against a disease when it has
actually become a fact, according to
DR.. Robert oleson Of. the public
health service. of Grand Forks, who
has been assigned to North Dakota
for a survey of it's health conditions.
Many people are not vet CONVEX
SAINT with the duties or accomplish
ments of the. public health nurse y
says n. Oleson in discussing the work
Of the public REPRESENTATIVE. Never
Itheless this guardian of the public
health holds a %position of highest
trust n utility. that of preventing
unnecessary sickness and premature
death. What does the public health
nurse do? You may have caught a
glimpse of her cheerful ,countenanoe
when she passed your ON in her
"universal' car and wondered. Or
you may have wondered as she strobe
along In her business-like way width
er she vas bound.
Duties Of Nurse.
1.-THE nurse lectures to- school chill
dren. expounding the principles of
personal hygiene and right living.
Moreover, she addresses meetings of
mothers, explaining the reasons and
purposes of prenatal care as we'll as
the essentials for, baby health. She
guards the health of your child and
mine in the. public schools by making
regular inspection of all children,
thereby detecting sickness in the early
stages before it has an opportunity
to spread. OnelN of her important
duties is to search for remediable de-
fects, followed by recommendations
that advice and assistance he sought
Of the family physician.
"The- public health nurses% also ae.
sists physicians and health Officers in
SECURING cultures from the noses and
throats of persons suspected of har-
boring the treacherous diphtherla
bacillus, which exacts it's cruel toll in
sickness and death during the wintei
months. She also inspects arms 70,
evidences of vaccination against
smallpox, urging the vaccination OF
persons who have not been recently
and successfully protected.
Health Center. Z
THE nurse is also an advocate. Of
the community health center. tc
which may. come persons iny need oil
appropriate physical examination anG
advice as to treatment. She make:
V'o1to ~ A1AosS NIlHs IubNi
culosis and other diseases. encourag
ing. advising and emphasizing witt
constant fidelity the necessity for ad
herence to- the attending physician.
instructions. Thee and many adul.
tional services the public health nuVse
performs quietly and unobtrusivel,
yet insistently. Z
occasionally in a 'pinch'the pub
lie health nurse acts as handy man
and does actual bedside nursing. How
ever she is essentially a %preventer o
sickness rather than one who care
for the i'll and as such as an extensiv,
field OF activity. To have "a person
with the qualifications mentioned Il
a community asset which. can scarcel.
be- measured. North Dakota has to,
feW. public nurses. More communit1e
need to be aroused to a sense OF ap
probation Of what can be done towar,
safeguarding the public health. A
the message of health becomes NOR,
widely distributed and understood tn
unnecessary toll exacted by prevent
able disease will inevitably grow less
The public school nurse is obviousl,
one Of the most valuable agencies il
attaining this end"