The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-05

through training schools everywhere has ex-
pressed It's need OF more nurses Capable and edu-
Gated young women can perform no more patriotic
service than by entering training schools for nurses
and thus preparing to adopt nursing a profess
sion. This crisis Is not just of this year and the
next and perhaps the next but for ny years to
come. The sick and wounded may before long be
crowding our civilian well our base hospitals.
We shall be confronted by serious health prob
lens for many years 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
the year before. Very generally. Miss Deano said,
superntendents 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
Hc-spirited people have placed suitable accOmmo-
dations at their disposal. In cases, too. the
hours Of training have been arranged to permit
students to take the course and live at their own
homes
Miss Clara Noyes. one of the most distinguished
women of her profession in the United States,
Gently superintendent Of the training school for
nurses In connection with Bellevue and its allied
hospitals In New York, and at present director OF
the bureau Of field nursing of the Red Cross. has
been acting 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, as 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 spirit of sacrifice
that has made the individual nurse give up all con-
dderation of personal comfort advantage, to
face stern duties abroad; and the who
would eagerly have gone foreign duty stands
by her post when most needed at home, with the
steadfast purpose Of serving the coors with all her
ability wherever she might be assigned.
The young probationer, just starting out her
hospital course, finds Of her greatest satisfac-
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 the Of the
civilian sick and thus helping directly In the pres
ent emergency. And another Of the satsfactions
of her work is that Immediately upon the compile
ton of her she enters upon the full respon
sbilities and opportunities for usefulness Of the
graduate nurse.
Miss Delano pointed out further the wide scope
Of activities open to the trained and the fact
that after the war; when all the world will be look
ing to a foundation Of public health and well
fare, women Of superior ability will be needed In
greater numbers than ever before in hospitals and
schools Of nursing us superintendents and super
visors, instructors and lecturers
The profession Of nursing. Miss Delano empha-
slzed is not alone the of the sick in hospitals
and homes 1t is the care of babies and prenatal
instruction Of mothers; supervision Of the health
of schoolchildren; instruction and care Of tuber-
culoMs patients; nursing and welfare work In in
dustrial plants mental hygiene work, and hospital
social service; and 1t enters into almost every
branch of the social service structure.
Bulletins dealing in the most concrete way with
all the questions likely to be asked BY young wom-
en- considering the nurses training, have been 10.
sued By the committee on nursng Of the council Of