The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-06-20
OPPORTUNITY FOR
COLLEGE WOMEN
A SPECIAL CHANCE FOR NURSES
TRAINING.
THREE. YEARS ,COURSE.HTWO
Demand For Experienced Hand Is
Great But the Volunteer Corps
is Worse Than Useless-Prep-
aration Is Necessary.

Many young women responsive to
what they feel is call to duty and
service in the gerat war struggle, are
seeking information as TO the re-
quirements of the Red Cross nurse
department and seek to enter the
service or get into some branch Of
the war activity with the least posi-
BILE delay. Girls out of high school
would offer their services forthwith
and would sail for France on a mo-
ment's notice if they could be ac-
cepted.
The following information from the
pen of Miss Jane A. Delano, director
of the department of nursing of the
American Red Cross, hits the nail on
the head in the following press arti-
Gle, Trained nurses are wanted and
needed Immediately, but only the
trained nurse can be used abroad.
Three years are required to make a
trained and registered nurse but col
lege trained girls can complete the
course in two years and the article
has special reference to them.
Some one has said that this is the
day of the trained nurse" and that
is true The trained nurse is per-
haps as large factor in the success
full conclusion of this war as the
| fighting forces, and daily the need
for more and more trained nurses
grows.
Training Counts.
| 1t takes three years to train a
nurse according to our present day
standards, which must not be lower
ed For this highly responsible and
highly skilled branch of scietific ser
vice, which means life or death to
many thousands, we must not be sat.
isfied with anything less than the
best trained. Nursing is difficult
art and cannot be acquired without
long period of training and expert
ence and the mastery of scientific
knowledge The unframed volun
teers, therefore, will not do. There
never was time when training
counted for so much and nero Will.
ingness to help for so little. Tho
amateur nurse is of as little use as
the amateur doctor And as for The
young woman who wants to go into
the military hospitals over there anG
sooth fevered brows - the brow
presser" as she is called on the othe'
sde-she is only a nuisance.
The women best fitted to enter tho
profession of nursing form limit y
class and for most of them the Gus
! to,nSry full three years of training Is
absolutely essential. There is Onr
rlass, however, that can be trained II
a shorter time-say two years instC aG
of the usual three This is composed
of women who have had college ed.
ucation or it's equivalent and the
women needed most for training sc
nurses are those who have graduated
from colleges since 1900, and CORES.
pond to the draft age of 81 and 81.
College Women.
College women heretofore have not
entered the nursing profession to n
large extent, but the few college WON
! en- who have taken up nursing are
rendering invaluable service at the
present time.
The young woman who wants to do
her "all'' is needed. This country is
facing a serious shortage of trained
nurses. and the shortage will be more
acute before the war is over. If the
college woman is willing to readjust
her lift scheme, to drop everything,
as the men have done, to serve our
country. she can render the same vi
| tai service they are rendering.
Apply at once to any hospital where
| training schools are maintained.