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Syphilis in relation to public health
Get PDFOne of the most outstanding dangers to public health, family, and physical health of this modern day is the prevalence of syphilis. The combat of preventing the progress and continued spreading of this communicable disease stands out as one of the big problems that we in public health work must attempt to solve. The prevention of venereal disease has long been a fight carried on in the name of law, personal rights and religion. The difficulties arising in this particular type of disease seem often unsurmountable, however with and intelligent and persistent campaign the end will be successful
The Indian Health Service
Get PDFThis paper details the history, purpose and challenges faced by the Indian Health Service since its inception
School nursing past and present
Get PDFThis paper discusses the history and development of School Nursing in Europe and the United States
Public health nursing
Get PDFPublic health nursing is the oldest branch of nursing in the world. The word nursing itself is derived from the Latin “nutrio,” meaning to nourish. Since the infant, child, young adolescent must have a nourishing diet, adequate care and supervision to reach strong, healthy, happy adulthood, we find that mothers were the first public health nurses. From this we might expect to find maternity or child welfare as the basis of preventative nursing. Instead, we find the old law of mutual aid asserting, and the foundation is laid on the visiting of the poor and sick poor. We are able now to trace the slow progress of public health nursing through the years, oftentimes almost completely submerged by ignorance and superstition up to the present-day programs.
The history and development of the science of surgery
Get PDFIn approaching this subject it should be realized to what extent one could be led in investigating the matter. To really cover the field properly, it would take a much greater length of time than we have to give. Surgery itself as a science had not always been known separately. It is very closely connected with Medicine. Different branches of study are important in order to fully comprehend the extensiveness of the topic. Anatomy is vital, because without it one could not expect to do successful work in surgery. Physiology is necessary to understand the mechanism of the various systems of the body and the importance an organ plays in this function. Pathology is essential in order to be able to recognize disease tissue of the viscera. Bacteriology is important so that one knows the effect of bacteria on organic tissue
The visiting Nurse Association
Get PDFWe sometimes forget that not everyone who is ill does go or can afford to go to a hospital to be cared for by a doctor and nurses. There are many people needing nursing care in the home. But through lack of instruction and helping hand with difficult procedures their friends or family are unable to care for them. Others need only slight attention and then they could carry on for themselves. Mothers with infants come under this classification. It is this countless number of people and more that the visiting nurse can and does help. She is the one that gives bedside care to those who cannot afford full-time care and teaches the prevention of diseases. We likewise do not realize the many cases of illness that are prevented through the educational program of Well Baby Clinics, Contact Clinics, Immunization Clinics, posters and pamphlets. The field is great, but the public needs educated to the possibilities yet attainable through more support and recognition.
Immunity
Get PDFThe subject of immunity covers a vast field of work, a work that I will endeavor to narrate in an elementary manner. The doings of the beneficial and injurious microbes, and incidentally, man, struggle to obtain mastery over his microscopic friends and foes.
Public health aspect of maternity nursing
No full textThe task of what can be done to reduce maternal deaths requires individual, group and community cooperation. Primarily, men and women must learn to know what constitutes good. Into partum and good obstetrical service, and they must be persuaded to demand it. As they do so, their very demand will create the supply.
A study of the problem of the handicapped child in Oregon and the facilities that are available for their care, treatment and rehabilitation
No full textThis is a study which grew out of a need felt by myself in the study of the field of orthopedic nursing. Such a statement requires a demonstration of the relationship of the subject of orthopedics to the problem under discussion
The patient as a person
No full textOn the following pages I have attempted to emphasize the extreme necessity of consideration of the patient as an individual, a sick person, in our institutions and nursing fields of today. Where there is physical disturbance, there is usually mental disturbance, and where there is mental illness there is often physical illness. Much of the material for the foundation of this paper was gathered from literature of the medical and nursing profession, other material from association and observation. I also correlated the direct and indirect effects of environment, heredity, association and education to the patient's reactions to medical aid and his acceptance of the situation which he finds himself.