T|ie 55th annual convention oi the Louisiana State Nurses' Association will be held Oct. 26-30 a1 Monroe, Miss Myrtle A. Olstad ot New Orleans, LSNA president, announced Saturday.
More than 150 delegates, representing all sections of professional nursing in. the state — private and general duty, institutional, public health, special groups, and education and administration — will participate in the five-day meeting.
Theme of the 1959 convention will be "Nursing Changes with Society," Miss Olstad said.
Principal speaker will be Miss
Mathilda Scheuer, of New York, president of the American Nurses' Association, who will address an open program meeting at 1:30 p, m., Oct. 27.
Miss Scheuer, who is past president of the Pennsylvania Nurses' Association, will speak on "Activities of the American Nurses' Association."
A special feature of this year's convention will be a panel discus-sidn on "Mental and Emotional Needs of the General Patient," to be held at 2:30 p. m. on-Oct. 29.
Participants will include a former hospital patient with mental and emotional problems; D. M. MeArthur, psychologist of the Louisiana Training Institute, Louisiana state department of institutions; Miss Joyce Travelbee, psychiatric nurse, department of nursing,-" Louisiana State university school of medicine; Sister Brigida, nurse administrator, St. Francis hospital, Monroe; Miss Vera ^Gilbert, general duty nurse, New Orleans; and Mrs. Lucille Sawyer, public health nurse, Shreveport.
All meetings will be at the Frances hotel.
The annual association business meeting and election of officers will be held at 1:30 p. m., Oct. 29, Miss Olstad said.
PHOTO: MISS MATHILDA SCHEUER
