Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-07-24
Student NURSES WANTED,
The Call Is for 25,000 to Enroll In the
Hospitals Of the Land at Once,

young women to join the Unltee
States Student Nurses Reserve ane
hold themselves in readiness to trair
for service as nurses.
The war is creating an unprecedentse
demand tor trained nurses. Only
those who have taken the full training
course are elegibe for service with our
forces overseas. These nurses are be-
ing drawn largely from our hospitals
at home. Their places must be filled
by student nurses enrolled for the full
training of from two to three years.
s Every young woman who enrolls in
the United States Student Nurses Re-
serve is releasing a nurse for service
at the front and swelling the home
army which we must rely on to act as
our second line of hospital defense.
Upon the health of the ARerican peo-
pie will depend the spirit OF their
fighting forces,
AGE.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thirty
five.
QUALIFICATIONS. Intelligent,
responsible women of good education
and sound health a,a wanted-the pick
of the country. A college education
is valuable asset, anu many hospitals
will give credit for It. Credit will
also be given for a special scientific
equipment for prelinainary training in
nursing, such as that given In special
courses now being conducted bysvarlous
colleges and schools. Some schools, on
the other hand, do not even require a
full high sebsol ducation-
ENROELMENI.- Women will be
given an+orport,lnity to enrol in the
United States Student Nurses Reserve
in any one vot three ways:
i. As engaging to hold Themselves
an readiness until April i, 1919, to
accept assignments t" nurses training
schools. these women willNbe sent to
the schers as fast as vacancies occur.
Those Of superior qualifications will
he given preference, and itis of course,
possible that not every sne who en-
rolls Will be accepted.
2. AS desiring to become candidates
for the Army School of &Nursing re-
Gently established by the authority of
the War Department with branch
schools in selected malltray hospitals.
3 sAs engaging to hold themselves in
1O1l fo
assignm ents to either civilian training
school ur the Army Nursing School.
Those who so enroll will be called
where the first need arises. The Gov
ernment hopes that maj0I.y of those
who enroll will thus put down their
names for both.
NURSES TRAINING SCHOOLS.
There are 1879 nurees training
schools in this country. Vheir 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.
The enrolment card viii indicate
and Deferred. The Preferred class
will be those who are ready to accept !
assignments to what ever hospital the
Government directs them. although !
they may state what training school
they prefer to be sent to.
Those who register in the Preferred
class will be assigned first. and all
possible consideration will be given to
their reference as stated. The Defer
red class lis composed of those who
limit their pledge of service-that IS,
who will NOT engage to go except to
certain hospitals. This class Is u
tended largely for those who, for
family reasons. can not accept training
at distance from their homes. Those
who register in the Deferred class will
be assigned only after the Preferred
class Is exhausted. The Government
relies on the patriotism of those who !
enroll to fill out Preferred cards if ,
hey possibly can. thus volunteering to
where they are most needed.
Mob ody will be a. siged to any schools q
nose cnoditions OF training are not t
proved by the State Board of Nurses .
asminers. {
tERMS OF TRAINING. The term b
slninG wares from two to three b