The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-07-25
WANT LINDEN GIRLS
TO TRAIN FOR NURSES
government Calls For 25,OOO To
Take Up Work OF Profession; Fine
& Opportunity Offered

The Government is calling for 25,-
600 young women to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurses.
Lynden girls who are interested
slider training for this profession can
receive further information at The
Tribune office.
The war is creating an unprece-
dented demand for trained nurses.
Only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for SER
Nyice with our forces overseas. These
3purses are being drawn largely from
FOUR 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 Student Nurse Reserve is re-
leasing a nurse for service at the
front and swelling the home army
which we must rely upon to act as
our second line of hospital defense.
Upon the health of the American peo-
pie will depend the spirit of their
fighting forces.
The call is for women between the
ages of nineteen and ,nirty-five.
Intelligent, responsible women of
good education and sound health are
wanted-the pick of the country.
college education is a valuable asset.
and many hospitals will give credit
for it. Credit will also be given for
special scientific equipment or for
preliminary training in nursing, such
as that given in special courses now
being conducted in various colleges
and schools. Some schools, on the
other hand, do not even require a
full high school education.
Women will be given an opportuni-
ty to enroll in the United States Stu
dents Nurse Reserve in any one of
three ways:
Cd AS engaging to hold them
selves ready until Apr l, 1919, to
4, .Nccept assignments to nurses train
ing schools. These women will, be
sent to the schools as fast as vacan-
cies occur. Those of superior quail
ifications will be given preference,
and it is, of course. possible thai nct
everyone who enrolls will be accep-
ted.
(2) AS desiring to become cands-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by the War De-
partment, with branch schools in SC
lected military hospitals.
CD AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April lst,
1919, to accept assignments TO either
a civilian training school or the Ar
my Nursing School. Those who SO
enroll will be called where the first
need arises. The Government hopes
that a majority of those who enroll
will thus put down their nalhes for
bCtl.
The term of training varies from
two to three years according TO the
requirements of tne particular school
to which the student nurse may De
scut. No coarse takes less than two
yeals nor mere than three.
At present every woman %io 'om-
pletes sati, fa' torily her training in
any accredited school is eligible
for service "a an Army nufse 81. the
front and stanos a chance OF being
"A assigned to duty abroad. Al the SANE
70 time she will be qualified to earn aer
living in one of the most noble nro-
fessions open to women. 1t should
he remembered, furthermore, that
her usefulness will begin not when
she graduates from the training
school but as soon as she enters 1t.
Practical nursing work is part OF
the work of every training school,
and the student nurse is not only
learning to serve but serving her
country from the outset.
The student nurse gets her board
lodging, and tuition free at practi-
cally every training school, ana IN
most cases receives a small remun-
Grafton to cover the cost OF books
and uniforms After graduation she
has an earning capacity Of from $loo
to $500 month. Private-duty nurs-
es now receive an average OF from
500 to s12O a month together with
board while on duty; institution
nurses from $50 to $3.50 a month to-
gether with board, lodging, and
laundry; and public-health nurses
from s1O0 to $3.50 a month without
maintenance. There is no danger oi
the earning capacity of nurses beihe
lowered after the war ends on ae'
count of the great number who VIII
then be qualified for the profession
the country will need all the nurses
that can be trained, not only during
the war but after it, especially foi
reconstruction work. Even IL the wal
ends within three years, every stu