H2004-17-19

1) Some background on her life.
family -- movement of\ boat\ motor -- outboard\ fishing -- fish wheel\ Yukon River\ summer -- fishing\ summer -- downriver\ fish -- dog feed\ Attla, George\ Attla, Eliza\ furs -- sales of\ groceries -- purchase of\ Koyukuk -- birthplace\ Hughes\ camp -- growing up in\ school -- Koyukuk\ reading\ Holy Cross Mission\ writing\ Nulato\ Huslia\ ABA class\ health aide program -- beginning of\ health aide -- interest in\ knowledge -- medical\ studies\ doctors -- work with\ physical screenings -- routine\ listening -- chest, lungs\ public health nurses\ exams|

2) Learning from public health nurses, other aides on the radio, and from doctors during special training in Anchorage.
examinations -- medical\ PAP smears\ Public Health Nurses\ knowledge -- limits of\ Johnson, Dr. Walter\ medical -- training\ exam -- abdominal\ emergencies -- signs of\ training -- Anchorage\ radio\ patient\ medevac\ Tanana\ Moses, Bertha -- listening to\ state radio\ Allakaket\ rashes -- description of\ education -- differences in\ words -- meanings of\ dictionary -- medical|

3) Some of the other health aides from the early days of training, and what the training was like.
Peters, Pauline\ Nulato\ Moses, Bertha\ training -- fun\ training -- difficulty of\ tests\ studies\ medicine -- injections, mixtures\ Hope, ? -- instructor\ Tanana\ Galena\ Fort Yukon\ Koyukuk River\ training -- first aid\ infections -- treatment of\ height\ weight\ temperature\ blood pressure|

4) Her first paycheck, and what it was like being a health aide.
Lower Yukon River\ Koyukuk River\ Upper Yukon River\ Anchorage\ training -- phases of\ paycheck -- first\ son -- school\ clothes\ food\ Moses, Bertha\ school -- workshops\ Fairbanks\ training -- trauma, emergencies\ health aides -- alternates\ Galena\ Schupp, Nancy -- supervisor\ patient -- burns\ IVs\ oxygen\ wounds -- dressing\ airplane\ medevac\ air ambulance\ flight\ Huntington, Roger\ Waterman, Scott\ Summer, Marty -- alternate\ Sam, Billy|

5) The emotional difficulties of being a health aide and coping with emergencies and even deaths.
 emergencies -- emotional response to\ patients -- death\ coping -- prayer\ retirement\ Nulato\ Huslia\ Galena -- clinic\ Anchorage\ airplane -- charter\ patient -- burn victim\ Anchorage -- conference\ feelings -- expression of\ helplessness\ education -- quality of\ health aides -- bravery of\ doctors -- learning from\ nurses -- learning from\ experience -- learning from|

6) How she became a health aide and some of what she learned on the job.
health aide -- becoming\ village council -- choice\ first aid\ job -- rewards\ learning\ Johnson, Dr. Walter\ training\ patients -- diagnosis\ training -- techniques\ pneumonia\ cough\ skin -- diagnosis\ exams -- pelvic\ microscope -- use of\ disease -- identification of\ studying -- amount of\ infants\ symptoms -- identification of|

7) How some health aides did amazing things to save lives, and the stories of two emergency breech births.
health aides -- exceptional\ Winkleman, Rose -- McGrath\ poisoning -- treatment for\ NG tube -- insertion of\ medevac\ health aides -- talking\ lives -- saving\ births -- first\ births -- breech\ birth -- emergency\ health aides -- training\ preclampsia\ kidneys -- function of\ coma\ airplane\ weather -- bad\ Tanana Hospital\ Galena Airforce Base\ Anchorage Hospital\ birth -- cesarean section\ seizure\ convulsions\ birth -- breech\ death\ Anchorage\ training -- prenatal care|

8) The freedom of her life now that she is retired, and why she was able to stick with the job for so long in the first place.  
job -- quitting\ Tanana Chiefs Corporation -- insurance benefits\ insurance -- Great West Life\ birth date\ clinic -- workers\ health aides -- alternates\ health aid -- primary\ work -- volunteer\ retirement -- freedom\ retirement -- happiness\ retirement -- activities\ hunting\ spruce hens\ berries\ camp fire -- teapot\ fish net\ garden\ work -- schedule\ leave -- quantity\ leave -- pay for\ work -- alone\ Huslia\ phones\ travel\ airplane\ laboratory -- cultures\ clinic\ medicines\ home visits\ instructors\ health aides -- errand girls\ women -- Athabascan\ life -- tough\ death\ burns\ medicine -- availability of\ babies -- death of\ survival\ people -- White\ public health nurses\ travel -- bush|

9) The miracle that she and others of her generation and earlier generations survived through childhood without medicine, and her observation that many of the illnesses common today were never a problem during her childhood.
 survival -- miracle\ disease\ infants -- immunizations\ babies -- importance of\ ancestors -- medicine\ world -- modern\ clinic -- medicine\ ears -- Eustachian tube\ eyes -- infections\ growing up -- camps, woods\ viruses  -- none\ colds -- none\ coughs -- none\ sickness -- frequency of\ upper respiratory tract infections -- rarity of\ hot steams\ infections -- rarity\ diarrhea -- existence of\ villages -- life in\ villages -- illness\ airplanes -- illness\ travel -- international\ schools -- illness|

10) The importance of clinics in the villages and how grateful she is for the support she received in Huslia from the people and the city.
diseases -- changes\ Huslia\ viruses\ diarrhea\ medical kit -- contents\ medicine -- modern\ hearing -- loss of\ sight -- loss of\ clinic -- avoidance of\ health aides\ Huslia -- clinic\ Eska, Marie\ Vent, Annie\ Bifelt, Hugh\ children -- ages of\ Copper Valley School\ community -- support of\ husband -- support of\ emergencies -- help with\ credit\ doctor -- communication with\ communication -- radio\ Village\ City Council\ meeting\ clinic -- steps\ stretcher -- transport of\ clinics -- comparison\ Huslia -- people of|

11) Changes in communications technology and technology in the clinic.
quitting\ diagnosis -- physical exam\ school -- physician's assistant\ body parts -- names of\ communication -- radio\ communication -- frequency of\ radio -- noise\ doctors -- Tanana\ communication -- difficulties with\ transportation -- mail plane\ communication -- satellite\ University of Alaska\ clinic -- modern\ clinic -- machines\ changes -- medical\ microscope -- removal of\ blood pressure -- cuffs\ hospital\ EKG\ x-ray\ Fairbanks\ training -- x-ray\ budget|

12) Words of advice for those considering a career as a health aide.
advice\ health care -- career\ elders -- gone\ Huslia -- remoteness of\ travel -- airplanes\ community -- knowledge of\ patients -- knowledge of\ family -- history\ disease -- physical\ heart\ thyroid\ Nulato -- enjoyment of\ drowning -- multiple\ transfer -- Hughes\ search\ retirement\ instructors\ experience\ good words|

13) What characteristics make a good health aide.
medical care -- historical\ infant mortality\ diarrhea\ treatment -- ease of\ knowledge\ people -- White\ health aides -- qualities of\ strength\ traumas\ public -- working with\ troubles -- tolerance of\ intelligence|

14) How she feels about her career as a health aide.
job -- satisfaction with\ happiness\ camp -- growing up\ education -- reading\ books -- lack of\ reading -- learning\ reading materials -- food packages\ baking powder\ salt\ flour\ kids -- modern\ learning -- tools for\ education -- struggling\ ABE class -- Adult Basic Education\ sewing\ beadwork\ berries -- picking\ fire\ tea\ life -- beauty of|

15) Memories of being a health aide.
health aide -- work as\ rewards -- learning\ reading -- books\ radio -- CB\ confidentiality\ communication -- radios\ radios -- difficulty with\ doctors -- visiting\ visits -- frequency of\ public health nurses -- visits\ babies -- immunizations\ well baby checks\ training -- public health nurses\ Fairbanks\ Carroll, Dr. Michael\ Albuquerque\ Schupp, Nancy\ Fairbanks|

16) A few final comments about the new young health aides and how great they are.
health aides -- young\ people -- good\ clinic -- staff\ staff -- girls\ education -- level of\ high school\ college\ Sam, Jana\ RN\ health aide -- primary\ bush -- life in\ kids -- quality of\ children -- loss of|