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June 21, 2006

Public Health Nurse

Filed under: Profile — Dale @ 5:42 pm

Yesterday we interviewed Christine MacKensie.  She is 98 and a retired Public Health Nurse.  We didn’t know what that was, but she filled us in on it.  She was really a pioneer in the field of Public Health Nursing, having started in it in the 1930s, in Utah and California.

Public Health Nurses don’t treat patients directly.  Instead, they advise local doctors and governments how to protect peoples’ health through sanitary water and sewage, immunizations, educating pregnant women, etc.  As you can image, there wasn’t much of that in the 1930s, and she had to blaze a lot of trails.

Christine helped set up programs all over the western US and Asia, including living and working in Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, etc.  Quite an adventure for a single woman in those days.

Today, she’s 98 and in excellent health.  She walks without a cane or walker, doesn’t wear hearing aids, and lives on her own.  She’s a remarkable person!

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