Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — BUREAU OF NURSING OUTLINES QUUALIFICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AND INSTRUCTORS. [ARTICLE]

BUREAU OF NURSING OUTLINES QUUALIFICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AND INSTRUCTORS.

BECAUSE of the confusion arts Ing in regard to the qualifications of Red Cross nurses In public health service, the Division Bureau of Nursing announces the regulations for that service. In order to be appointed to this work a nurse must be enrolled for active service in the Red Cross; must be registered in the state; must have had at least eight months’ experience in supervised public health work, or have taken a course in public health nunsing. She may be recommended by -a chapter but all nursing appointments are made by the Bureau of Nursing of the Lake Division. The nurse is urged to apply for work In the community in which she lives because a knowledge of local conditions is valuable. This part of the Red Cross peacetime service to humanity is purposely restricted to rural districts or to towns having a population of about thirty thousand where the need is greatest. It is conducted by the Bureau of Public Health nursing which is a bureau of the Department of Nursing of the organization which sent overseas 24,000 nurses to help win the war and now launches a nation-wide fight against preventable disease.