title: How to develop exceptional ability in nurses. 1930.
abstract: This historical reprint from The Public Health Nurse, Volume 22, Number 11, published in November 1930, came from a speech presented at the National Organization for Public Health Nursing Round Table for Supervisors at the Biennial NOPHN convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 30, 1930. Ruth Telind was a supervisor with the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Her message about the orientation and development of staff nurses has relevance today. The work of visiting nurses has changed substantially, of course. The methods by which the aims of community education, recreation, health promotion, child welfare, and care for those who are chronically and acutely ill are accomplished today may seem far removed from the makeshift approaches of this Depression-era supervisor's experience. Nevertheless, the message that nurses have unique talents and interests that can be fostered to improve outcomes for the organization and to increase the satisfaction and retention of those nurses reminds supervisors, nurse educators, and executive directors of any nursing organization that the same principles apply 80 years later.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Telind
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000266:history; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history*; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States