The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-19
25,OOO WOMEN WANTED TO
 JOIN U. 5. NURSE RESERVE

The Government is calling for 25,- 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 unprecedent- ed demand for trained nurses. Only those who have taken the full train ing course are eligible for service with our forces overseas. These nurses are being drawn largely from our hos pitals at home. Their places must be filled by student nurses enrolled for the full training course of from two to three years. Every young woman who enrolls in the United States Stu dent 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 fighting forces. Age.-The call is for women be- tween the ages of nineteen and thirty five.
 Qualifications.-Int 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 also be given for a special scientific euuip- ment or for preliminary training in nursing, such as that given in special courses now being conducted by va rious colleges and schools. Some schools, on the other hand. do not ev- CT require a full high-school educa- ton.
 Enrollment.-Women will be given an opportunity to enroll in the Unit. ed States Students Nurse Reserve ir any one of three ways.
 CD As engaging to hold them selves in readiness until April 1, 1913 to accept assignments to nurses train ing schools. These women will be sent to the schools as fast as vacan- cies occur. Those of superior quail fications will be given preference, ant 1t is, of course, possible that not ev' eryone who enrolls will be accepted.
 CD As desiring to become candi dates for the Army Nursing School re gently established by authority of tht War Department, with branch school! in selected military hospitals.
 (3) As engaging to hold them selves in readiness until April 1, 1919 to accept assignments to either civil ian training school or the Army Nurs ing School. Those who so enroll vii be called where the first need arises The Government hopes that a major ity of those who enroll will thus pu down their names for both.
 The Nurses Training Schools.
 There are 1879 nurses trainin. schools in this country. Their need 1
 as great and imperative as that of tn i Army School of Nursing. Those wht ?! enroll for these schools will be assign ed as vacancies occur.
 The enrolment card will indicat , two classes of egistrants-preferr 4 and deferred. The preferred clas
 will be those who are ready to accep S assignment to whatever hospital tn q Government directs them, althougl x they may state what training schoo
 they prefer to be sent to. Those wh ! register in the preferred class will b
 assigned first, and all possible consid
 eration will be given to their prefer
 ence as stated. The deferred class q composed oS those who limit thei N pledge of service-that Is, who will no ] engage to go except to certain hos $ pitals. This class is intended largel