Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-07-26
$4,000 YOUNG
WOMEN WANTED
Government Calls High School
Graduates to Enter Student
Nurse Reserve.

States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurses.
The war is creating an unprecedent-
ed demand for trained nurses. Only
those who have taken the full training
course are eligible for service with
our forces overseas. These nurses are
being drawn largely from hospitals
by student nurses enrolled for the full
training course Of from two to three
years. Every young woman who en-
rolls in the United States Student
Nurse Reserve 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 Am
erican people will depend the spirit
of their fighting forces.
Age.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thirty
five.
QualificatiOns.-Inte respon-
sible women of good education and
sound health are wanted-the pick of
the country. A college education is a
valuable asset, and many hospitals
will give credit for it. Credit will al
so be given for special scientific
equipment or the preliminary training
in nursing, such as that given in spec
ial courses now being conducted by
various colleges and schools. Some
schools, on the other hand, do not
even require a full high-school educa-
ton.
EnrOllment.-Women will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the United
States Students Nurse Reserve in any
one of three ways:
(D As engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April l, 1919,
to accept assignments to nurses
training schools. These women will
be sent to the schools as fast as va
cancies occur. Those of superior quail
ifications will be given preference, and
it is, of course, possible that not every
one who enrolls will be accepted.
(2) 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.
(3) AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April 1, 1919,
to accept assignments to either civ
ilian training school or the Army
Nursing School. Those who so enroll
will be called where the first need
arises. The Government hopes that
majority who enroll will thus put
down their names for both.
The Nurses Training Schools.
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.
AhG toiu Will
two classes of Observation-Disclosures
and Deferred. The preferred class
will be those who are ready to accept
assignment to whatever 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 consid-
Grafton will be given to their prefer
ence as stated. The Deferred class is
composed of those who limit their
pledge of service-that is, who will
not engage to go to certain hospitals.
This class is intended largely for those
who, for family reasons, can not &C
cept 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 pat
riotism of those who enroll to fill out
Preferred cards if they possibly can
thus volunteering to go where they
are most needed.
Nobody will be assigned to any
school whose conditions of training
are not approved by the State Board
of Nurse Examiners.
Terms of Training.-The term OF
training varies from two to three
years, according to the requirements
of the particular school to which tn,
student nurse may be sent. No course
takes less than two years nor NOR,
than three.
What the Training Course Prepares
fOr.-At present every woman who
completes satisfactorily her training
in any accredited school Is eligible for
service as an Army nurse at the front
and stands chance of being assigned
to duty abroad. At the same time
she will be qualified to earn her living
in one of the noblest professions oper
to women. 1t should be remembered