This information will indicate the situation as regarding the need for emergency nursing and medical service, and should be acquired as fully as possible in larger communities, through various agencies such as a current lay or police canvass of homes, etc. The continuous classification of cases according to these groupings is of practical value.
IV. Analysis, Augmentation and Organization of Principal Facilities.
(A) Field Nursing.
1. Ordinarily nursing facilities utilized in general public health work should be diverted to meet the epidemic situation, and should be used on a district basis, with all other available facilities, under one supervision.
2. Nursing assistants, volunteers, etc., should be used wherever possible in homes and institutions, under expert supervision, after classification and assignment on a basis of minimum standards as to fitness, and such intensive training in the care of influenza and pneumonia patients as may be feasible.
3. From the standpoint of the patient, home treatment is to be advocated, if medical, nursing, disease preventive and other facilities are adequate.
4. Restriction so far as possible through the pressure of public opinion should be brought against the unnecessary use of private nurses.
5. Automobile transportation should be provided, and the nursing service used to encourage isolation and education.
6. Special record forms are essential for this and the medical work, and a special sub-committee is proposed to meet this problem.
7. Provision as to housing and care should be made for out of town nurses.