RT Journal
T1 THe nurse in public health.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD August 31
VO 93
IS 9
SP 716
OP 717
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710090056040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710090056040
AB The author is the assistant director of the division of medical education of the Rockefeller Foundation. She has spent twenty-five years in public health nursing. Her points of view are: 1. The demand for the public health nurse has arisen out of the development of preventive medicine. 2. The function of the public health nurse is to teach members of the family how to care for the sick under the direction of the family physician and prevent illness among themselves. The practical application of these ideals as carried out by the Frontier Nursing Service in the mountains of Kentucky and in the mountainous regions of the Southern states, and as they are being applied by some of the health demonstrations, is described. The Boston Instructive District Nursing Association is discussed in more detail. The author believes that Boston has one of the most efficient nursing organizations. Public health nursing in