The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 17

13L9v M10 1o Busy Midwife Doesn't By LYNDA H. HOMES. WASHINGTON, N. Beard Shelton is a nurse whose career has taken a strange turn from the routine hospital duty of most nurses. The conditions under which she works are in wretched contrast to the sterility of a well-equipped hospital.

She is subject to call from her patients at any hour of the day or night; for Mrs. Shelton is also a highly trained midwife. Armed with an Impressive ar- of Bailey, and all maternity patients were delivered at home. ray of degrees and certificates, This of medical care took part she could hold a pleasant job, on new meaning to Mrs. Sheleither with a health department ton, and she became very interor a private hospital.

She has ested in pre-natal care, delivery, instead to deliver babies and newborn babies. chosen for the medically indigent those patients who cannot afford hospital delivery, but which do not qualify as welfare cases. Her original ambition was to become a Frontier Nurse, serving in regions where there are no doctors or hospitals. But after receiving her R.N. from General Hospital in Virginia, she worked for a short time with a physician in Bailey while waiting to enter the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill.

During this time there was no hospital in the small community IV IVEY-TAYLOR'S R'S Come to our Forget Dream Of Frontier Nursing 9 Possibly the most important phase of her training has been the stress on recognizing any abnormality. If such should ocShelton would immediately send for an M.D. Has Own Baby, She has never lost a baby from birth accident, and she has delivered hundreds. In 1958 she delivered 110, in the meantime having a baby herself! The very week before her third child was born, Mrs. Shelton delivered five babies.

She visits her patients before confinement and discusses the preparations to be made. During her training abroad, the theory was taught that a mother is immune to the germs of her own surroundings. Thus, under normal conditions, a mother's home should not be a source of infection child-birth. As she studied, Shelton was during, amazed to learn that home deliveries, rather than hospital, are customary in nearly all countries but the United States and Canada. The county in which she works has a per capita income among the lowest in North Carolina.

Thus, many of her patients live with only the barest necessities. Mrs. Shelton almost never collects all the fees due. her, although she stoutly maintains that her patients will pay when they can. Evidently, satisfaction in her work greatest reward.

She deep compassion feelsher for these people, who are faced with accepting inferior medical care, or even none, because hospitalization is impossible for them. Sometimes Mrs. Shelton's State Faculty Dance Planned The State College Faculty Dance Club will hold the last dance of this year at the Naval Reserve Training Center on Western Boulevard Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Members who have not used their guest tickets this year may still use them at this dance. Mrs.

Arnold Grandage will be hostess and punch will be served. Professor and Mrs. Norman Bell, the co-presidents, will finish up their term of office at this dance and the new officers will be announced. SUMMER PERFECT IN ARNEL cOn Fashion Show on our popular second floor at 12:00 noon IN RUFFLED CAP Lovie Beard Shelton wears mark of Royal Infirmary's Certificate in Midwifery. a real need for her services right here in Beaufort County.

She saw an opportunity to provide safe medical care to those expectant mothers who were in dire financial circumstances. Working independently, she has patients from Public Health Maternity, Clinics which have been carefully screened by medical doctors as normal cases. a. Thursday, April 20th Wherever you're going, you can't go wrong with a suitcase full of our newest fashions of Arnel. They're made for easier, breezier days (and nights) thanks to wrinkle resistance, wonderful washability, the ease-of-care and comfort of Arnel.

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On ber of the Women's Honor Counof these occasions, since Irene F. Lee Cup as the outstand- cil and of the Women's Residence car was ice and snowing senior woman in the Universi- Council. She was active in the she walked three miles ty of North Carolina in 1961. The YWCA, serving on the publicity to her case. cup was presented Dean Kath- dormitory vespers committucked away in a corner erine Kennedy 'Carmichael, at the tees; she worked on "The Daily mind is her old dream- Valkyrie Sing, on Monday.

Tar and she was a memsomeday she may yet be a As a junior, Miss Walker was ber of the Westminster FellowNurse. tapped into membership of the ship. Studies in Scotland. After receiving her certificate in Public Health Nursing, she went to the Frontier Nursing Service at Wendover, for training. Still planning to be a Frontier Nurse, she was advised to Scotland to study Midwifery.

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