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A staff nui'st* from the Portland Visiting Nurse Association demonstrates the proper way to bathe a baby. The baby’s
brother has been attending the well-baby clinic in the Sellwood Community house and the baby will be enrolled there soon.
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DcNORVAL UNTHANK, M. I).
A R A T A B U I L D I N G
6 S W SIX TH AVENUE
1‘O K TLAND, OREGON
September 30, 1944.
One of the most reassuring and helpful aides
that our community has at its disposal is the
Visiting Nurse association.
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The services offered by this association should
be more widely known and used.
In my practice of medicine in this community
1 have found the Visiting Nurse Association of
Tuberculosis contacts is valuable. The nurses’
I have made it routine in my practice to ask the
visiting nurse to go into each home to assist the
new mother in her parental and post - natal
problems.
It is wise for all mothers possible to avail
themselves of the educational and practical value
of the well baby clinics.
The cheerful follow-up work rendered by the
nurses to house-confined and bed-confined patients
is of value, that in these busy times, is difficult
to estim ate to both doctor and patient.
The follow-up work rendered in the cases of
Tubersulosis contacts is valuable. The nurses’
suggestions and instructions should meet with
your utmost co-operation.
Know the services rendered by THE VISITING
NURSES ASSOCIATION.
In liberally supporting the W ar Chest you are
assuring the continuation of this good work.
Dr. DeNorva!
Unthank,
M. D.
CALL A VISITING NURSE
Many newcomers to Portland do not know what
the Visiting Nurse Association is, or how they
can make use of it. It is im portant th at every
Portland Resident should know about this organi­
zation, particularly during wartime, when the
city’s rapid growth of population has created a
public health problem because of the tem porary
shortage of doctors, trained nurses and hospital
facilities.
They care for tuberculosis patients, help
prevent further infection in thè families or
patients, and educate the public toward pre­
vention of the disease. Six weekly tuber­
culosis clinics for adults and children are
held at the University State Tuberculosis
Hospital.
The VNA is a public health organization which
m aintains a staff of 20 public health nurses avail­
able to any Portland home where sickness strikes.
These graduate registered nurses are particularly
well equipped to give skilled nursing care in the
home, always under the direction of a physician,
for the following types of illness:
MATERNITY SERVICE . . . Nursing care and
advisory service to expectant mothers and
further care when they return home from
the hospital and need help in the care of
the baby and in following the doctor’s in­
structions.
THE ACUTELY ILL . . . Patients suffering from
heart disease, pneumonia and other dis­
eases.
THE CONVALESCING . . . Patients who have
returned from the hospital and need part-
time nursing, surgical dressings or treat­
ments every day, every week, or at other
intervals.
The Visiting Nurse
Association is a ben­
eficiary of the Com­
munity C hest
WHAT ELSE DO THE VISITING
NURSES DO?
They conduct eight weekly Infant W elfare
and Preschool conferences in various parts
of the city, where mothers are given advice
by the doctors in charge, concerning health,
diet, and habit training of their children.
THE AGED OR CHRONICALLY ILL . . Patients
partially or wholly bedfast who need expert
care occasionally.
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They supervise field work in public health
nursing for graduate and undergraduate
nurses.
They cooperate with the state and federal
governments in the Emergency M aternity
and Infant Care plan, through which wives
of service men receive the medical and
nursing care they need.
THE COST OF VISITING NURSE SERVICE
A nurse’s visit costs the Association $1.50
Those able to pay .this are expected to do
so. Those who cannot, may pay in propor­
tion to their resources.
WHO MAY USE VISITING
NURSE SERVICE?
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Any person who is sick at home and needs
skilled nursing care may secure this service.
\ nurse answers every call, but e a r^ is
continued onty under the direction of a
physician.
Remember, when sickness strikes in your home... CALL A VISITING NURSE. . . BR. 0551
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