NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY OF HEALTH DIGITAL COLLECTION Tar Heel Nurse Volume 2 (1940) DOCUMENT NO. NCHH-39-002 || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). For more information about the collection, or to search other volumes, please visit: || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || PRE3IDEFT'S iESoAGE Vfe have just entered a New Year and a new decade. Throughout the world there is much strife and suffering, but in our ovm peaceful country we are very fortunate. Ue have much time and opportunity for thought and improvement, i'ay every nurse in North Carolina keep in close touch with the activities of her profession and its organiza­ tions by reading regularly our official organ. The American Journal of Nursing. This^ I believe, will give each one of us a better understanding of professional problems and will enable us to ^vork together for a vranderful year in 1940. — I'jrs. llarie 3. Mo ell THE HEART OF THE PRIVATE DUTY NURSE It is hardly probable that the public is avjare of the number of days and nights the private duty nurse stands at the bedside of critically ill patients trying to alleviate their suffering by giving them the most skilled and sympathetic care that is vdthin their power. In the November, 1939 issue of the American Journal of llursing, this statement can be found, "First six months of 1939 fortjr-seven regist­ ries reported the sum of .^12,2^0 given as free nursing service."— Not a small sum' A survey of our state shows that private duty nurses have had more days of employment during the past year in practically the entire state, more hourly nursing -alls in certain sections, S-hour duty instituted in several districts, and that registry fees and fee schedules for patients is relatively the same for the state. OUR SUi.i-'ZER COURSES FOR REGI3TIRED FJRSE3 The Education Committee is June 13 to July 20, happy to announce that Hiss ^ o x ' Those in need of financial Beatrice Ritter who has taught assistance to take the course our courses in Nursing Educa­ and v:ho moot certain require­ tion at the University of North ments and can furnish satisfact­ Carolina, Chapel Hill, during ory endorsement to a note may the summer session for the last vnr’ite the chairman of the tvjo years vjill be our visiting committee for information. instructor again this year. See the last page of the The courses have been arranged Nov^s Let.tcr for complete infor­ for the first summer session, mation. 'iTTlT- Committee E. A. Kelley Largaret I. Pinkerton ITellic I. Roop Lrs. Uarie B. Noell,exof£MD Ruth Pannill Edna L. Heinzerling,exoffidD Bessie L. Chapman, Chairman ^ PUBLIC HEALTH SECTION The program coiru'oittee of the Public Health Section of tht= North Carolina State Murses’ Association met in Raleigh December 9, 1939^ to make plans for their program at the State Convention. Lembers present v/erc Theodosia Flud, chairman^ Llabel Patton, Flora \.'akefieldj Amy Fisher, and Alma Kee, secretary, Josephine Daniel and Edna L; Heinzerling attended in an exofficio capacitj^. Lsny interesting tonics were presented for the State prograin, but tho final decision v;ill not be made until after the meeting of the Advisory Council. Josephine Daniel, consultant in Public Health Nursing S:;rvico, Division of County Health VJork with the North Carolina State Board of Health, Raleigh, accepted a similar position v,dth tho Oklcihoma State Health Department, Oklahoma City. Amy Fisher, supervising nurse of tho Durham County Health Department v;as selected to succeed lliss Daniel. ^-yHAT ALUiiNAE ASSOCIATIONS DID IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1939 It is estimated that there are 1009 members and that there were 120 meetings hel held. Topics Used for Educational Programs Red Cross, llusic and Dr-imatics, The Value of a Nurse in a Community, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Studj'- of Parliamentary Lav;s, Case Studios, Ney; Developments in 1 Medicine and Surgery, \.'-:.ys and Means of i^akin,^ Honey Rummage sales, silver teas, sponsoring picture shows, benefit bridge parties, bingo parties. Activities Delegates sent to State meetings; magazines, American Journ:il of Nursing, ctnd books to students and sick nurses; milk to underoriviledged childrcii; Christmas baskets to the poor; sick nurses hospitalised; duos paid for sick nurses; Chase doll to school; mimeographing machine to school; donations to iViary Levris Wyche Fund and to help add ;vings to tvio hospitals;, flovrers, checks, sunshine bags and personal gifts to sick nurses; check to Cojrimunity Chest Fund and tho Ashevillo Orthopedic Home; donations to Red Cross supply rooms and Needle li.'ork Guild; bandage scissors for affi­ liating class; memorial gifts, wedding gifts and gifts to now babies; Alumnae Bulletin published; districts, fresrimen, and senior classes entertained; gifts to outstanding nurset of graduating classes; new furnishings for nurses' homes and super­ intendents of nurses' rooms- Dulce Alumnae presented an oil portrait of Bessie B. Baker to Duke University which was placed in tho Duke nurses’ home. Please send to the St^;te Headquarters’ office the mrdos of officers of all Alujnnae Associations whic'n have not already been sent. Notice of Advisory Council meeting should reach you by Llarch 1, 1940. INTERESTINCt DATES TO NORTH CAROLINA NURSES 1. Advisory Council and Board of Directors i'eeting— llarch 16, 19^0 2. St-.vte-Yddo League of Nursing Education meeting in Charlotte— April 5> 1940 (Definite announcements about these meetings vrill bo scat out later) 3- Tentative plans for a two-day Institute for Private Duty Nurses to be held in Viinston-Salem, October 1 5 , 16, 1940 U* North Carolina Sto,te Nurses’ Convention— Octobor 17, IS, 19, 1940 5. Spring State Board E::aminations for Nurses will be held April 1?, 18, 19^ 1940, at the State Crapitol, Raleigh. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection, an LSTA-funded NC ECHO digitization grant project http://www.archive.org/details/tarheelnurseseri21940nort ^ - OFFICE OF THE S]CSCUTIVS SBCIffiT.’YRY September 5 1939?- January, 19^0 State Convention, V.ri.htsville Beach; attended^ecutive Secr^^^^^^ Institute, New York City; field trips to Districts 2 5, ^nd o, letters .t i 358; transfers made— 7; Red Cross blanks endorsed— 15. ^^^%o°viSt S l ^maininf^ five districts before the Biennial Convention; attend the Advisory Council and B^ard of Directors meeting and t.he League meeting April in Charlotte. A new storage cabinet is being added to the appearance and efficient management of the affairs at State H.adqu.rt^rs. Be sure to visit your State Headquarters and the Treasurer of the Korth Carolina Board of Nurse bxaminers ’.;h.=n in Rdei^h. Location— Goirjnercial Bank Building, Rooms /fl5j ^17, A-9. BIEMIAL COMVENTION Going to the Biennial Convention ' ^ in Philadelpnia I’iay 12—18. , f ■ipic in Mrv«" The Journal says, "Spring will bo 3“ f t h / Take your top coat; get into your Ford and let s g J aap. train, bus; or if you want an extra thrill, try “ to lay your head w.nVn yonr hotol rosorvations^ow, or you m^y not h^ve an^ p ^ ^ the Jeurnal gives . f “ ifes tatfl rftS! r . s - i £ ; r r ^ r - i h e I f i ; . student nurses will have special sesstons a. th^ Bicnn-.l. icr .p Associations coul^hclp finance two students trom Fr-^nklin Hotel A North Carolina luncheon has been arranged ..t the Bex.jJiun tr..nKiin ^The Southern Divisi^ will have a House, beautiful Valley” Forge, and the handsome i.amicipaj. Audiboriun i ^rt, meetings will be held. The railroad authorities state that they cannot give reduced fares Philadelphia is so near and “ J ' ^ n S c C o - L L i n e n s ' available at dr.y-coach servicc on tne oouthorn, o-cbOc.rd tu.^p tr-ins First-class S ^ i n f c ^ ^ r y i S ' p u S S n ^ S s ^ h a J S " - - d ^ ^ h a l f cen^s a M l e . ‘ Berths are extra, Bust Rates Chartered buses carrying 37 passengers leaving ^ ' ' S n ^ o r rate of P-r .die,prorated among the 37^1-ssengers Tickets for rou^ more may be purchased at a lOf. reduction at any buo st<_tion provia person buys all of the tickets. Page U k e e p IW s t e p w i t h IJl'RSING ACTIVITIES If you like to study, the Journal has .-.dded a helpful fcaturo by nlacing the Green Letter in the front of its publication. The references for the answers to the questions are given ^rith each latter. Plan c. p r o , ^ a a using the questions anrt give a prize to the nurse i*o is "keepin.>- in stop" best. _ , ^ Prges could be v.ritten about the valuable inforTnr.tion in the last three volumes of our Amorican .Journal of NursiJig.