The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-02-13

Ministering to the sick and needy
is the objective of a bedside nurs-
ing project set up under WPA. The
Or oject is under the direct super
vision of the Minnesota Depart
ment of Health. Countrywide pro-
jects have been set up in Stearns,
Meeker, and Kandiyohi at the pre-
sent time. If properly qualified
people from the WPA certified
files are available in other coun-
ties, similar projects will be organ
lied, according to Mrs. Henet Kauf-
mann, Supervisor of Women's and
Professional Projects.
Two registered nurses and one
household aid make up the person
mel for Stearns county. Three aids
are at work out of Litchfield in
Meeker county. Household aids are
being assigned to work out of Will
mar in Kandiyohi county. Regis
tered nurses are put on these pro-
jects whenever possible.
These people are prepared to
care for needy people who are I'M
able to pay for nursing services.
Requests for this bedside nursing
service must be made through reg
ular physicians of the county in
which the patient lives. When the
needy patient requires professional
nursing, one of the registered nur-
ses is sent out by the attending
doctor. The household aid, who is
not a registered nurse, is sent out
by the physician in charge to
homes where there is illness and
where there is need for housekeep-
ing services. The physician in
charge makes his call for either a
nurse or a household aid through
the local Nurses Registery.
Standards are to be of a high
calibre. The project will meet the
requirements of the State Nursing
Association regulations, Mrs. Kauf-
mann said.
1t is hoped that this project will
lead eventually to a permanent Wis
iting nurses association. The Min
nesota Department of Health will
hold Institutes for the personnel
assigned to these projects.
All persons must be certified
through the proper channel before
they can be assigned to the project
Nurses are to provide evidence OF
being legally registered to practice
nursing under a nurses practice
law. Household aids shall supply
written recommendations from lie.
censed physicians and a registered
nurse certifying to them, ability in
caring for the sick who are not In
need of specialized nursing care.
A local advisory committee with
representation from medical anc
nursing association, local relief or
CARNATIONS, and interested lay
people will be chosen to direct WPA
nursing projects in communitie:
where people wish to avail them
selves of the service and where
there are no active nursing advis
DRY committees. The State Depart
ment of Health Will assist in thi
organization of such committees.
Nurses and household aids viii
report to the attending physician!
at the completion of their services
When not employed in privat,
homes, these WPA nurses and aid.
may assist in county wards of 10
cal hospitals or other institution!
where the sick are housed.
WPA workers have been assign
ed to work in the County Auditor
office in Kandiyohi and Seearni
counties under projects set up IL
st. Cloud and Willmar. These pro
jects come under the direction o
Mrs. Henet Kaufman, Supervise
of Women's and Professional Pro
jects.
County records will be filed, pu
into shape, and brought up to dat
by these WPA workers. Mendin,
and cleaning will be done II the oil,
records are in need Of such at
tention.
County budgets provide no funt
J for this work so that 1t would re
main undone II this WPA projec
had not been set up. Salaries o
these file clerks will be paid II
federal funds.