The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-15
CREDIT TO COLLEGE GIRLS
Girls of H. S. and College Training Els
pecially Appealed to-Two from Ke-
nosha City Hospital Entered Upon
Public Health Training.

ken0Sha young W0manh0Od has
splendid opportunity to do something
worth while in the great war if they
will answer the recent appeal of the
Wisconsin Graduate Nurses Association
to fill up the depleted ranks of the
nurses of the state in order that more
efficient nurses may be sent to the
front to save the soldiers from dis
ease and death. This means the en-
rollment for training either in the Ke-
nosha Hospital School or in one of the
Training Schools of the state. Two
from Kenosha-Mrs. Elsie Jensen and
Miss Ether Gootheb-have already en-
tered the new training schools which
are being carried on as part of the
war program for the providing of COM
petent nurses for the war needs.
The details Of the new plan are clear
set forth in the following communica-
ton from the State Associations:
A statewide campaign to provide
Wisconsin with nurses to take the places
Of those who have gone into military
service and to meet the increasing re-
mands both for private duty and for
public health nurses is to be carried
on by the League Of Nursing Educa-
ton, a recently organized section of
the Wisconsin Graduate Nurses asso-
citation A feature of the work will
be the cooperation of the league with
the Wisconsin nti-Tuberculosis Asso-
citation in the training of student
nurses for public health work.
Organized effort to interest high
school and college girls in nursing as
a profession will be made and plan
is now being worked out by which
college girls will be given credit on
their nurses training for their college
work in biology, chemistry, home eco
Monies, and similar subjects. Plans
for housing student nurses outside of
the hospital, thus making it possible to
accommodate extra classes, are also
under consideration. This increase in
the number of student nurses would be
of great assistance to the hospital
training schools in their program for
lessening the number of hours on duty
and increasing the hours for rest, study
ard recreation, thus making hospital
training more attractive to the student
without any sacrifice Of efficiency.
The special course Of training for
public health nursing, conducted by the
Wisconsin Tuberculosis Associa-
tion and hitherto restricted to grad
uate, registered nurses, has been opened
to senior students in training and sew
era1 Of the training schools in the state
have adopted this special course as part
of the senior years work Seniors
who wish to take up public health work
and who are believed to be especially
fitted for it will be selected by the
superintendent of the training school
and placed under the supervision of
Miss Stella Fuller, B. NJ, supervising
nurse with the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis Association and director Of the
special course, for four months Of in
tensive training. Two months of this
work will be actual field work.
Wisconsin is a pioneer in work of
this nature and its first class under the
new arrangement is now being organ
lied. Three students from the MiIwau-
kee County Hospital Training school,
one from Columbia, two from the Ke-
nosha City Hospital and one from the
Theda Clark Memorial hospital in
Neenah have already entered upon their
public health training and several other
hospitals are planning to send students
as soon as local work can be arranged
to permit it. The innovation is re-
ceiving the cordial endorsement of
training school superintendent as it
meets a growing need for which regu-
lar training schools have not as yet
found it possible to make provision.
The demand for public health nurses in
Wisconsin is growing so rapidly that
specific training is absolutely essential
The League of Nursing Education
will seek to interest the club women of
the state in securing recruits for the
nursing forces of the state as a pa
triotic service Of definite, practical
value. Mrs. Adelaide Northan, super
intendent of the Milwaukee County
Hospital Training school, is president
of the league and Miss clarence Prouty
instructor of nurses at Columbia, is
secretary.
Members of the subcommittee to