The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-06-27
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NURSING OFFERS CAREER

On more than one occasion during
| the past year private duty trained
nurses have been unattainable in any
| part of the state. The shortage, fur
| thermore, was not confined to Wiscon-
sin. Chicago, similarly hard pressed
| Tor proper attendants for it's sick, has
applied to Milwaukee registries for
assistance. This situation offers prop
erly qualified young women extra
ordinary opportunities for entrance
into one of the noblest of professions
and assurance of good earnings after
graduation.
Several factors have combined to
create the demand for nurses which
| is in excess of the supply. First of
| all, there is a growing appreciation on
the part of the public of the greater
comfort, safety and increased life and
health assurance that a competent
nurse offers to individuals and fam
lilies afflicted by illness. Second,
nurses, physicians, hospitals and the
employing public are all demanding
| higher type of woman as the calling
is being placed on an increasingly
higher professional basis. Third, in
dustries, health departments, school
boards, and various social service
agencies are constantly offering in
ducements to especially we'll qualified
nurses to enter public service. Last
ly, the war in Europe has called many
American nurses into service abroad
Excepting the last, the above named
factors, which are producing a demand
in excess of the visible supply, will
be lasting, increasing rather than de-
creasing in opportunities 1t is, there
| lore, with more than ordinary assur-
ance that this article is addressed
| primarily to the best of the young
women who are graduating from high
schools and colleges and who need
or desire self-supporting career
Short as is the supply of good
nurses, there is no need or any great
opportunities ahead for poorly quail
| fled and poorly trained ones. The
first requirement of good nurse is
| tempermental and not sentimental fit
ness. The next is personality and
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which means abundant opportunity to
learn by observation and through suf-
fciently systematic and we'll adapted
instruction by skillful teachers.
Such training is available in many
hospital training schools; but it
should not be assumed that all hos
pitaI training schools offer the pupil
nurse what she has a right to expect
| in return for the service she renders
the hospital during her period of
training. 1t must be confessed that
some so-called schools are organized
solely for the purpose of securing vir-
tually free labor for two or three
years in exchange for diploma
which, however, beautifully engraved
or beribboned it may be, proves to be
practically valueless to its possessor.
1t, therefore, behooves prospective
pupil nurses and their parents to scru-
tiniZe available training schools very
carefully and to be assured that time
and really worth while opportunities
viii not be sacrificed by being too
readily offered to the first bidder. The
best hospitals and training schools are
leager to secure promising pupils and
usually have plenty of openings for
lsuch. II a poorer school needs to be
accepted, let its choice be last and not
first.