The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-08-01
WANTED, ENLIST NOW
25OOO Women to Enroll i'm the United
States Student Nurse Reserve

The Government is calling for 25,-
900 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 unprece-
dented 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 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 American people
will depend the spirit of their fight
ing forces.
AGE-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thir-
ty-five.
QUALIFICATIONS - Intelligent,
responsible women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country. A college educa-
ton is a valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it.
Credit will also be given for special
scientific equipment or for prelimi-
nary training in nursing, such as that
given in special courses now being
M fo1 hxy1
schools. Some schools, on the other
hand, do not even require full high
school education.
LLMENT-Women will be
given an opportunity to enroll in the
United States Students Nurse Reserve
in any one of three ways:
(1) 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 vacancies occur. Those of
superior qualifications will be given
preference, and it is, of course, pos
sible that not everyone 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 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
Il majority Of those who enroll will
thus put down their names for both.
The Nurses Training School
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 classes of registrants-Preferr
and Deferred. The Preferred class
will be those who are ready to ac-
cept assignment to whatever hospital
the Government directs them, al
though 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 preference 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 ac-
cept training at distance from their
homes. Those who register in the
Deferred class will be assigned only
after the Preferred class is exhaust
cd
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 whase conditions of training
are not approved by the State Board
of Nurse Examiners.
TERMS OF TRAINING-Thet term
of training varies from two to three
years, according to the requirements
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 every
woman who completes satisfactorily
her training in any accredited school
is eligible for service as an Army
nurse at the front and stands a
chance of being assigned to duty
aboard. At the same time she will
be qualified to earn her living in
one of the noblest professions open to
women. 1t should be remembered,
Furthermore, that her usefulness will
begin not when she graduates from
the training school but as soon as
she enters it. Practical nursing work
is a part of the work of every train
ing school, and the student nurse is
not only learning to serve but serv-
ing her country from the outset.
| FINANCES-The sfudent nurse