The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-28
DISCUSS AIMS
ANDPR0BLEMS
OF PROFESSION
Scores of Women in This
City for Convention of
N. ID. Association
DIR. HEDGER SPEAKS
Well known Chicago Woman
Physician Gives Address
at Session Today
DIR. HEDGER SPEAKS

"V AJN<JOAOu AOu&Ay
Gathered together from all over
the state to learn of the advance
ments being made in their profess
sion and to hear of the aims and
work being done by their state Or
ganization, almost hundred MEM
bers Of the North Dakota State
Nurses Association met this morning
at the opening session of the thir-
teenth annual convention in the Ma
sonic Temple and listened to the
presidents address and to talks by
DR.. Caroline Hedger of Chicago and
Mrs. Elsbeth Vaughan, r. N. of St.
Louis.
Following a musical program, Mrs.
Harry f. Morris, r. N. of jamestown
responded to addresses of welcome
by A. p. Lenhart, on behalf of the
city of Bismarck, and by DR.. J. o.
Arnson, for the Sixth District Medi-
cal Association. Miss Edith B. Pier
son. r. NJ. of Fargo, then delivered
the annual presidential address.
There is much for US to gain,"
she said. "by the renewing oil per-
sonal acquaintances and the intimate
knowledge that is received by small
er group conferences, as well as
from learning of the advancements
in our profe ession. And what ad-
vancements are being made! We no
longer think of the patient as some
one TO bring back to safety and then
to be forgotten. Everywhere nurses
are learning that in order to help
him most we must think of and in
vestigatc the social and the economic
circumstances. as we'll as the physi-
cal circumstances that involve the
sick.
81 trust, too, that we have come to
know what the State Association has
been doing and what you may do for
it. Early irA the year the directors
adopted as part of the program,
plans to increase membership in the
State Association, increase attend
ance at our State Convention, stimu-
late local organization, and encour-
age state registration. We are not
satisfied with the results and ask
your assistance in stimulating these
projects for the coming year.
1--WE are grieved too that the peo-
pie of the state, as represented by
the legislators do not see the value
of better education for our nurses.
This is something that must come
and we as an Association shall have
to continue to labor in that direc-
tion. knowing that first the people
must be educated to the true concep-
ton of the place of the nurse in her
community
DR.. Caroline Hedger of Chicago,
who is the principal speaker at. the
two-day session of the annual con-
vention. also gave an address this
morning on "Positive Health"
II am not at all satisfied with the
standards of health in the nursing
profession" said DR.. Hedger, en-
phasizing her major interest in
health for nurses. "You have all had
q tremendously expensive education;
so expensive, in fact, that a number
have broken down in health during
the process. From 81, 100 to $1,000 a
year. it is estimated, has been ex-
pended in your training, and we can
not afford to have such expensively
trained people wasted because Of
lack of health"
Scoring the negative attitude of
the training schools toward the
health of nurses, DR.. Hedger advo
Gated the adoption of a positive side.
in recognizing those nurses who do
keep we'll, instead Of soaking the
nurse when she gets sick by adding
on extra time, and making her make
up for every day she is out"
eve have got to get at some atti-
tude towards nurses and their lives
that will permit US to send outs Of
the training schools women in bet
ter condition than when they enter
ed. Many of you will be called into
the public health field, which is the
great field of the future, an educa-
tional, positive field. AS we get out
Of the training schools today we are
not equipped for that field.
~ believe there should be public
health training in our schools for
nurses; but If we cannot get that
yet, we can at least teach the nurse
standards of health, so that she
will be fit to sell the health idea to
a community, by exemplifying in her
own appearance what she stands for.
The nurse must have definite con-
cepts Of health, and most often she
has not been able to get these, be-
cause her contacts have been only
WA sick people, DR.. Hedger declar-
ed, advocating setting ideals for var
ious ages OF children through the
observation in the training school of
we'll children at various ages.
Important factors in positive
health, the speaker emphasized, were
beauty, vitality, nervous balance or
ones attitude toward life. One
should look we'll, should have the
proper proportion Of weight to
height; should be neither "too
skinny" nor "too fat" DR.. Hedger
Mrs. Elsbsth Vaughan, R. NJ. of
St. Louis, also spoke at the morn
ing session. her subject being: "The
Of the Red Cross"
Referring to the organization which
existed before the war period, and
to the changes made during the war,
Mrs. Vaughan sketched the reorgani-
zation which went into effect on
Is, 1926, by which the six
divisions which comprised the Red
Cross in the United States were con-
solidated into one main office at
and two branch offices,
one located at st. Louis and the
other at San Francisco. The St.
Louis, or Midwestern Division Of
flee. she explained, serves the seven
teen midwestern states, and the San
Franci-"" office is headquarters for i
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