The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-02
W-AlNSTED-25, 900 WOMEN TO
: ENROLL IN THE u. S. STU
DENT NURSE RESERVE

zo'oOo young women to join the
United States Student, Nurse Reserve
and hold themselves in readiness to
train for service as nurses.
The war is creating an unpreced-
ented demand for trained nurses
only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for SER
vice with our forces overseas. These
nurses are being drawn largely from
our hospitals at home. Their places
must be filled by student nurses en-
rolled for the full training course of
from two to three years. Every
young woman who enrolls in the
United States Nurse Reserve is re-
leasing nurse for service at the
front and swelling the home army
which We must rely on to act as on.
second line of hospital defense. Up
on the health of the American peo-
pie will depend the spirit of their
fighting forces. 81 81
t4s IS
AGE.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages Of nineteen and thfr
ty-five. 3"
QUALIFICATIONS. = Intelligent.
responsible women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the>
pick Of he country. A co lcge educa-
ton is valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give crett for it. Cred
1t VIII also be given for a special sci
en'ifl : equip aent Or for preliminary
training in nursing, such as that CIV
en- i'll special courses now being CON
Quoted by various colleges anc
schools. Some schools, on the other
hand, do not even require full high
school education.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES will be
given an opportunity to enroll in the
United States Students Nurse Re
serve in any one of three ways:
ID AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April 1,
1919, to accept assignments to
nurses training schools. These wom-
EN- will be sent to the schools as fast
as vacancies occur. Those of superb
or qualifications will be given prefer
ence, and it is, Of course, possible
that not everyone who enrolls will
be accepted.
CD AS desiring to become cand1-.
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 them
selves in readiness until April !,
1919, to accept assignments to eth
er a civilian training school or the
Army Nursing School. Those who SO
enroll will be called where the first
need arises. The Government hopes
that majority. of those who enroll
will thus put down their names for
both.
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.
The enrolment card will indicate
two class 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 except to certain
hospitals. This class is intended
largely for those who, for family
reasons, can not accept training at q
distance from their homes. Those
who register in the Deferred class
will be assigned only after the Pre-
ferred class is exhausted.
The Government relies on the pa
triotism 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
schools 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 require
ments of the particular school to
which the student nurse may be sent.
No course takes less than two years
nor more than three.
WHAT THE TRAINING COURSE
PREPARES FOR.-At present ev-