Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-10
NURSES ENLIST
FOR RED CROSS
Three Nurses From st. Joseph's
Mercy Hospital Enlist, one for
Home Service and two for
War Service.
WILLIAMS NURSE ALSO ENLIsTS
Call for Many Will Leave Shortage
Here and Short Course is Pro.
yided to Help.
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| Three of st. Joseph Mercy hos
pitfalls trained nurses registered for
Red Cross service Friday. The
| registrations were made by Miss
Emma G. Wilson of Des Moines, who
| was here in the interest Of the Red
Cross department of nursing and
conferred with Mrs. w. j. Zitterell,
chairman of the Webster City Red
Cross chapter, regarding this phase
of Red Cross service The enrolled
| nurses are:
Sister Mary Lewis.
Miss Grace Stuart.
Miss Hattie Oberhauser.
Mrs. William P. Bossenberger of
Williams, a graduate nurse, also en-
rolled Friday for Red Cross service
Some Must Stay.
Supplementary to the effort to en-
roll thousands of nurses for war ser
vice, the Red Cross is recognizing
two groups of nurses, who should not
leave the work they have in hand,
those on executive and teaching stats
of the nurses training schools and
the nurse doing public health work.
1t is to this latter group that Sister
Mary Lewis is assigned She will
continue to act as a hospital nurse
and will give her advice and be
available for consultations with less
experienced nurses engaged in pri-
vate duty or home service work.
So urgent is the need for nurses
that some authorities say the day is
coming when it will be next to i'm
possible to secure nurse for private
nursing. Community need and COM
munity sentiment alike will make it
necessary to extend each nurses
skill and knowledge, under the sup
ervision of physicians OF course, to
scores rather than permit it to be
concentrated on a single patient. A
hospital nurses service Is given
many patients at once, and as advis-
DRY nurse Sister Mary Lewis will be
invaluable.
Three for War Service.
Miss Stuart, Miss Oberhauser and
Mrs. Bossenberger are all enrolled
for war service, and they are subject
to call at any time.
A call for $4,000 registered nurses
has been made to the American Red
Gross by Surgeon General Gorgas Of
the army and Braisted of the navy.
The Central Division alone has been
asked to enroll 1886 nurses, and they
must be had and will be had There
is no more patriotic body of Ameri-
cans than the graduate nurses. They
know that army nursing means hard /.
work, deprivation, terrible nervous
strain and the risk of death at the
hands of an enemy who delights in
bombing hospitals and sinking hos
pital ships, yet 10000 nurses to date
have offered themselves.
Serious Shortage.
But with the call for thousands OF
nurses, in profession at no time oy-
ercrowded, serious shortage will be
felt at home. To meet this, the Red
Cross plans to enroll every married
woman, who at some time or other
has graduated from an accredited
nurses training school and enlist her
in home service work.
Course for Home Nurses.
There are considerable number
of such women in Webster City and
several have already promised their
services as needed at home. To meet
the home needs under these emergen-
cy conditions and to help in the pro-
cess of "Hooverizing" the nursing
service, the Iowa Tuberculosis asso-
citation has arranged for an eight
weeks emergency course to fit nurs-
es for public health nursing in Iowa.
The course will be open June "a and
close August II.
There will be no tuition: the ordi-
nary living expenses of the students
will be the only outlay involved. The
course is open to graduate nurses
who are considered personally, ply
sically and educationally qualified
for public health service. But lin
tied number can be taken. Inquiries
or applications should be directed to
the Iowa tuberculosis association,
SIS Century Building, Des Moines,
Iowa
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