The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
Governor To Address
 Nurses Convention
Hartford to Be Scene of 37tn Session Next Week.
 Waterburian Among Round Table Leaders

Governor Robert A. Hurley of Connecticut, will address the open ing session of the thirty-seventh annual convention of the Connecti- cut State Nurses Association which will be held at the Hotel Bond, Hartford, Wednesday and Thursday' October % and 30, 1941. The pro- gram for the morning session deals with the part the registered nurse plays in state and national defense plans and Governor Hurley will dis cuss the responsibility of the regis tered nurse as a nurse and as 2 citizen.
 Caroline E. Falls, R. N., director of the Nursing Defense Program of the New York State Nurses Associa- ton, will speak on "Tfie Red Cross Nurse And National Defense"
 Marion H. Douglas president. who will preside at the meeting, will give a report on the work of the Associa- ton for the past year.
 Thomas J. Spellacy, mayor of Hartford, will welcome the group to Hartford at the opening of the se's- sion.
 Luncheon Meetings
 Two luncheon meetings will be held following the morning session At the Educational Section luncheon Professor Hubert Greaves, professor of public speaking, Yale University, will be the speaker, his subject Speech and Personality for Nurses" At the Public Health Nursing Sec- ton luncheon, Dr. P. P. Greene, F. A. 0. S., Yale University, Foreign Advisor to the Human, China, Health Department, will speak on the sub- Iect, Nursing in China and It's Re- lation to Nursing in America"
 Two section meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon. Leah M. Blaisdell, R. N., director of Per- sonnel and Practice, Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service, New York, will speak at the Public Health Nursing Section meeting on the subject Gan a Nurse Evalnate Her Own Work?"
 The program for the Educational Section will consist of three demon ytrations on nursing care; the first demonstration, "The Care of a Pa- tient in Traction" will be presented by St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing and directed by Sister Mary Madeleine Forcier, instructor in nursing arts. The second demon stration, "The Care of Patient Receiving Oxygen Therapy," will be presented by the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing. Dr. J. E. Rem finger, resident anesthetist, Hart ford Hospital, will discuss "Indi- cstions for and Practical Applica- tions of Oxygen Therapy" with Dorothy Elliott head nurse at the Hartford Hospital. demonstrating. The third demonstration, "The Care of a Patient Before and After Cas- trict Surgery" will be presented by the Yale University School of Nurs- ing under the direction of Mrs Eleanor Gill, instructor in nursing arts. The Private Duty Nursing Section will meet with the Educa- tional Section.
 Red Cross Membership
 The State Red Cross Committee and the local Red Cross committees will meet at four o'clock to further plan for increasing the enrolment I in the American Red Cross Nursing Service which is the reserve of the Army and Navy.
 Thursday morning, October 30, Is given over to section meetings. At I the Private Duty Nursing Section, n demonstration on "The Wage1l- steen Suction, and Pavex Suction Pressure Boot" will be given by IMuriel G. Dudley and Jean 8. Murphy, instructors in nursing arts at the Hartford Hospital.