Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-09
An Appeal for Nurses

The United States must nave Z5,-
| 600 student nurses now-studenl
nurses to release graodate nurses fol
work at the front Without more
student nurses graduate nurses can
not be sent to Europe and our wound
ed men will suffer for want of nurs-
ing care. The United States govern
ment looks to the state divisions and
/ the county and local units of the
Woman's Committee to supply these
student nurses. 1t Is estimated that
the army alone will require total
Of $4,000 graduate nurses by jan
uary LIST, 1919. Already $4,000 OF
this number have been withdrawn
from civilian practice for service In
military and naval hospitals. Hence
the Red Cross has just called 10000
additional. 1t is an imperative mill
tary necessity that every graduate
nurse not needed at home should en-
ter military service. Graduate nurses
can only be released by recruiting
new student nurses. Graduate nurs-
es can only be supplied by filling the
training schools connected with our
hospitals. The prosecution of the
war demands that every such train
ing school be kept filled by student
nurses to their MAXIMUM teaching
aid housing capacity. Yet the de-
rand for women in other branches of
wal service has depleted the numbers
of students taking training for rurs-
ire until they are below that of .lcr-
nal times.
The American Red Cross AMI the
Council of National Defense, through
its Nursing and Woman's CofaniIt"es
ere uniting their forces to ttrduct
an Immediate, short and intensive
campaign to enroll a United States
Student Nurse Reserve for training
schools nj both army and civilian
hospitals in order that every vacancy
shall be filed. This campaign Is to
be opened on Monday, July 18th, and
closed on the evening of August 18th.
Those dates are the dates for actual
enrolment. The call Is for women
between the ages of nineteen and
thirty-fve. The qualifications call
for intelligent, responsible women OF
good education and sound health. A
college education is valuable asset
and many hospitals will give credit
for 1t. Credit will also be given for
special scientific equipment or for
preliminary training in nursing. such
IS that given in special courses now
being conducted by various colleges
and schools. Some schools on the
other hand do not even require
full high school education.
Women will be given an opportun-
ity to enroll In the United States Stu
dent Nurse Reserve In any one OF
three ways:
(ll AS engaging 20 hold them
selves in readiness until April l.,
1919, to accept assignments to nurs-
es' training schools. These women
will be sent to the schools as fast as
vacancies occur. Those of superior
qualifications will be given preference
and 1t is, of course, possible that
not every one who enrolls will be &C
cepted.
CD AS desiring to become candi-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by authority OF
the War Department, with branch
schools In selected military hospitals.
CD AS engaging to hold themselv-
es in readiness until April 1, 1919, to
accept assignments to either civil
ian training school or the Army Nurs-
Ing school. Those who so enroll will
be called where the first need arises.
The government hopes that a major
ity OF those who enroll will thus put
down their names for both. There
are 1879 nurses training schools In
this country. Their need is as great
and imperative as that of the Army
School of Nursing. Those who enroll
for these schools will be assigned as
vacancies occur. Nobody will be as
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