Fourth Schedule., The Nurses Rules

PRACTICE OF HEALTH VISITORS (COMMUNITY NURSES). 1. To supervise Maternity and child Welfare services in Health centres and rural communities, and in particular to supervise the work of Enrolled Maternity Assistants. 2. To visit the homes of infants and children regularly, to keep records showing the progress of all children visited, and to ensure that they are vaccinated against smallpox. 3. To advise mothers in Health Centres and in their homes, on personal hygiene, breast and artificial feeding, weaning and the dietary requirements of the growing child, and on good methods of cooking and the preparation of food. 4. To advise householders and housewives with regard to domestic hygiene of dwellings and compounds. r. 35. r. 41. r. 42. Signs and symptoms. 5. To refer to a Medical Officer or Medical Practitioner any abnormality such as undue loss of weight, cough, discharging eyes or ears, rashes, etc., and to teach the necessity of obtaining Medical advice early in disease. 6. To supervise the welfare of infants from seven days old (when the Midwife ceases to visit) to three years old. Each infant to be visited monthly for first three months then at three-monthly intervals until the age of three years. 7. To keep a record card showing progress of each child visited. 8. To weigh infants weekly at special centres, keeping a weight record of each and to encourage mothers to bring their children regularly. 9. To advise mothers on personal hygiene, breast and artificial feeding, weaning and the dietary requirements of the growing child. 10. To refer to the Medical Officer any abnormality such as undue loss of weight, cough, discharging eyes or ears, rashes, etc. 11. To advise with regard to domestic hygiene of dwellings and compounds and to visit mothers in their homes. 12. To teach the necessity of obtaining Medical Advice early in disease. 13. To keep all the necessary records and ledgers and to send in monthly returns to the Medical Officer of Health. 14. To give instruction on the meaning of the tuberculin test and its use in determining the need for vaccination against tuberculosis.