The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications

The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications - A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign

During eight successive years the writer has been engaged in special tuberculosis work, first as field nurse of the Visiting Nurse Association of Baltimore, later as organizer and director of the Tuberculosis Division of the Baltimore Health Department. Entering the field in the pioneer days of 1905, she has seen the work pass through the struggling stages of private enterprise into the well organized, almost automatic grooves of the city machinery. This continuity of service has been an experience of unique value. During this period we have walked into and backed out of many blind alleys or No Thoroughfares, and have acquired wisdom through the loss of infinite time, effort, and money. Although the material for the following pages was gathered in Baltimore, and is therefore, strictly speaking, of a local character, yet since practically all of the conditions indicated or dealt with are common to all towns and cities, this need not limit the application of the ideas and principles set forth. xviIt is also hoped that though the work of tuberculosis nursing is dealt with chiefly as done under the auspices of a Visiting Nurse Association, or as part of the work of a City Health Department, what is here presented will be of value to nurses working under private associations, and to private associations themselves. Therefore, in presenting this book to the publicto nurses, physicians, social workers, anti-tuberculosis associations, and all those engaged in public health workthe writer has two objects in view. First, to offer a working model by which any community can gain some idea as to how to organize and conduct tuberculosis work; second, to offer conclusions, gained through practical experience, as to the nurses part in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. The object of the anti-tuberculosis campaign is the eradication of tuberculosis. Our experience has been to prove that the simplest and most direct method of controlling this disease is through the segregationthe voluntary segregationof the distributor, and that to remove the patient from an environment where he is dangerous to one where he is harmless is the function of the public health nurse. This is her chief and foremost duty, and all others are subsidiary to it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67640
Author: La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
Release Date: Mar 17, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons
Publication Date: 1915
Publisher Country: United States