The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-04-26

through training schools everywhere, has ex.
pressed It's need Of more nurses. Capable and cdu-
Gated young women can perform no more patriotic
service than by entering training schools for nurses
and thus preparing 10 adopt nursing a. a profess
sion. This crisis Il not Just OF this year and the
next and perhaps the next. but for ma ny years TO
come. The sick and wounded may before long be
crowdlng our civilian as well ms our base hospitals.
We shall be confronted by serious health prob
lens for many years M an aftermath OF the war"
Since the entrance OF the United States into the
war the number OF pupil nurses entering training
schools for nurses has Increased 20 per cent over
the year before. Very generally. Miss Deano said,
superintendent and directors OF training schools
throughout the country have, with great resource
fulness and energy. arranged for the training and
housing OF an increased number OF students Some
times when the latter has not been possible, pub
licspirted people have placed suitable accommo-
dntions NJ their disposal. In some cases, too. the
hours Of tminiag have been arranged to permit
students TO tshs the course and live at their own
homes.
Miss Clara Noyes. one Of the most distinguished
women OF her profession In the United States, re-
Gently superintendent OF tho training school for
nurses In connection with Bellevue and It's allied
hospitals In New York. aud at present director Of
the bureau Of Geld nursing OF the Red Cross. has
been acting rs field agent for this bureau for some
weeks. addressing mass meetings In a number OF
cities. urging the recruiting OF nurses.
Hospitals and training schools are undertaking
arduous, difficult and heavily Increased tasks with
enthusiasm. rs a patriotic duty, she reported. Also,
they have given and are giving In many Instances
the most valued members OF their STATS OF nurses
for military service, In the same spirit OF sacrifice
that has made the Individual nurse give up all con-
liberation OF personal comfor or advantage, 10
face stern duties abroad; and the woman who
would engerly have gone on foreign duty stands
by her post when most needed at home, with the
SteAdfast purpose OF serving the colors with all her
ability wherever she might be assigned.
The young probationer, just starting ous on her
hospital course. finds QUE Of her greatest ~satisfuc-
tons IN the knowledge that she. too, Is serving the
colors from the very FIRST day Of her training. which
she does very literally BY aiding In tho care Of the
civilian sick and thus helping directly In the pres
ent emergency. And another OF the satisfnctions
OF her work Is that Immediately upon the compile.
ton Of her course she enters upon the full respon-
abilities and opportunities for usefulness OF the
graduate nurse.
Miss Delano pointed out further the wide scope
OF activities open 10 the trained nurse. and the fact
that after the war. when all the world viii be look
ing 10 a new foundation OF public health and vel
fare, women Of superior ability win be needed In
greater numbers than ever before In hospitals and
schools Of nursing as superintendents and super
visora, instructors and lecturers.
The profession Of nursing. Miss Delano empha-
sized. Is not alone the care OF the sick 10 hospitals
and homes II Is the care OF babies and prenatal
instruction Of mothers; supervision OF the health
OF schoolchlldren Instruction and care OF tuber-
culosis patients; nursing and welfare work In In
dustrial plants mental hygiene work. and hospital
social service; and Il enters Into almost every
brunch OF tie social service structure.
Bulletins dealing In the most concrete way with
ali the questions likely to be asked by young won
en- considering the nurses training, have been 10
sued BY the COMMITTEES on nursing Of tho council Of