The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-06

through training schools everywhere, has ex-
pressed its 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 as a profess
sion. This crisis is 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
crowding our civilian as well as our base hospitals.
We shall be confronted by serious health prob
lens for many years as 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 Delano 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
licspirited people have placed suitable accommo-
dations at their disposal. In some 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, re-
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 as 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 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-
sideration of personal comfort or advantage, to
face stern duties abroad; and the woman who
would eagerly 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 out on her
hospital course, finds one of her greatest satisfac-
lions 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 care of the
civilian sick and thus helping directly in the pres
ent emergency. And another of the satisfactions
of her work is that Immediately upon the compile
ton of her course she enters upon the full respon-
sibilities and opportunities for usefulness Of the
graduate nurse.
Miss Delano pointed out further the wide scope
of activities open to the trained nurse, and the fact
that after the war. when all the world will be look
ing to a new 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 as superintendent and super
visors, instructors and lecturers.
The profession of nursing. Miss Delano empha-
sized. is not alone the care 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-
culosis 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 is
sued by the committee ON nursing of the council Of