The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-01
.25,OOOWOMENW WANTED
N NURSE RESERVE

United States Student Nurse Reserve
and hold themselves II readiness 0
e in for service as nurses /
The war is creating an unpre-
tedented demand fer trained nurses.
Only thcsc who have taken the full
raining course are eligible for ser
ice with our forces overseas. These
.u~sas are drawn largely from our
Hospitals at home. Their places
aust b. filled by student nurses en-
rolled for the full training course OF
,~0m tive to three years. Every
young woman who enrolls in the
United States Student Nurse Reserve
is releasing a nurse for service az the
ront and swelling the home army
which we must rely on 10 act as our
second line of hospital defense.
Tpou the health of the American
3e1pie will depend the spirit OF their
lighting forces.
Agc.-The call for women between
he ages of nineteen and thirty-iiye.
| Qualifications. Intelligent, re-
sDonsible women Of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country. A college edu-
alton is a valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it.
Credit will also be given for q
pecial scientific equipment or for
reliminary training in nursing, such
S that given in special courses now
,olrg conducted by various colleges
and schools, Some schools, on the
ther hand, dc not even require a
ull high-school education,
Enrolment. Women will be Civ
an opportunity to enroll In the
nited States Students Nurse Re
]erye in any one OF three ways.
(D AS engaging to hold them
elves in readiness until April I,
919, to accept assignments to
lurses' training schools These
Yomen will be sent to the schools
u fast as vacancies occur. Those OF
uperior qualifications will be given
reference, and It is, of course, pos
ible that not everyone who enrolls
Will be accepted.
(2) AS desiring to become can
"a es for the Army Nursing School
ecently established by authority Of
he War Department, with branch
chools in selected military hospitals
CD As engaging to hold them
selves In readiness until April !
1919, to accept assignments to either
civilian training school or the Army
Nursing School, Those who so en-
] -oll will be called where the tirs
/ aeed arises. The Government hope:
l lat majority CT those who enrol
| vill thus put down their names fol
l both.
Nurses Training Schools.
| There are 1879 nurses trainin!
| ii lis in lhig country, I!eir neet
n Is as great and imperative as that o
i lie Army School OF Nursing Thos
Eho enroll for these schools will b.
! assigned as vacancies occur.
i The enrolment earl viii indicat
Il ~ classes of observation-disclosures
/ and Deferred. The Preferred clas
III d Ill be those VINO are ready to accep
Il -, ,nt t,u | Nccnit al tl
| ,yernment directs them, althOug
| hey may state what training schot
II icy ureser to be sent to. Those VIII
erister in the Preferred class wi
II 5, assigned first and all possible cor
Iteration will be given to the1
reference as stated The Deferre
II lass is composed of those who lin
i !.eir pledge of gervice-that is, VIII
i'll not engage to go except to cel
/ ain hospitals. This class is intende
| 2rgely for those who, for famil
| ,asons, can not accept training
distance from their homes. Thos
no register in the Deferred elias
will be assigned only after the Pr'
ferred class is exhausted.
Il The Government relies on I'll
II atriotism of those who enroll
III fill out Preferred cards if they po
= sibly can, thus volunteering to
= where they are most needed.
. Nobody will be assigned to an
> schools whose conditions of trainin
= are not approved by the State Boar
. f Nurse Examiners
!. Terms of Training.-The term
= raining varies from two to thrt
= years, according to the requirement
T. 0f the particular school to which Il
: student nurse may be sent.
y Ecourse takes lPss than two years N
y Emore than thee:
e what the Training Course Prepar
h l'or.-At present every woman WI
Z completes satisfactorily her trainil
y in any accredited school is eligib
y for service as an Army nurse at t.
n front and stands a chance Of ben
=. assigned to duty abroad. At t
= same time she will be qualified
" earn her living in one of the noble
te% professions open to women.
\. should be remembered, furthermO
Z that her usefulness will begin Il
~ when she graduates from the ira
e ing school but as soon as she entt
- it, Practical nursing work is a pf
J. of the work of every training scho