The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-02-05
Nurses Wanted

A call to qualified nurses to enlist
for war service has been issued by the
American Red Cross Nursing Service,
the mobilizing agency for nurses for
the United States Army and Navy.
Attention is called also to the imper-
alive need for an increased enrolment
in training schools so that fully quail
fed nurses may be released from civil
ian hospitals for military service.
Citing an estimate of the Surgeon
Generals Office that the Army alone
will need between 10000 and 10000
nurses in short time, the Red Cross
Nursing Service makes 1t clear that
the present average enrolment OF
1000 a month falls far short of the
military needs of the Government
Moreover, it is asserted, the Allies are
depending upon this country to sup
plement their nursing service.
The fact that the recruiting Of
nurses does not keep pace with the
military needs does not indicate that
the women in the nursing profession
are slackers, according to Miss Jane A.
| Delano, Chairman of the Red Cross
Nursing Service. 1t Indicates merely
| that the sudden and extraordinarily
heavy demand for nurses has not been
| thoroughly realized by the women
available for this service.
AS demands grow. daily, the prob
Rem of home nursing for civilian
needs becomes harder to solve. 1t is
estimated by the Army Nurses Corps
hat over 10000 nurses will be need
d, on the basis of the present esti'
mates, for an army Of 100000 men.
| 1880 Enrolled.
Statistics prepared at the headQuar
.ers of the Red Cross Nursing Service
/ n Washington show that there art
between $4,000 and 10000 registered
lurses In the United States. OF this
number approximately 1880 are en-
| rolled Red Cross nurses, the majority
Of whom are in active service Oh
ready for mobilization for specified
purpose. The Red Cross enrollmen
sorms the reserve Of the United States
Army Nurses Corps and the United
States Navy Nurses Corps.
Already 1,790 nurses have beer
equipped and sent abroad by the Rec
Cross Nursing Service. For service
at home the Red Cross has provided
$500 nurses. More than 1000 add
tional nurses have been organized
into units which now are ready fol
mobilization.
Red Cross nurses also are dom,
special work In sanitary zones sur
rounding environments. Eighty-nin'
are serving IN a public health detach
ment under the American Red Cros
In France. Twelve public healtl
nurses are in Roumania, three Ii
Greece and one in Serbia.
Requirements Modified.
All Red Gross nurses assigned Il
duty in military hospitals automatical
ly become members of the Army o
Navy Nurses Corps and are NO longe
under the supervision or direction o
the Red Cross. These nurses, whel
on active duty, are entitled to tn
same Government war risk INSURANCE
as Army or Navy officers and enlist
ed men.
To meet the increasing demands o
the Army and Navy NHrses Corps tn
Red Cross has modified somewhat tn
former requirements for enrolment
The age limit Is lowered to twenty
one years, and In special cases nurse
over forty may be accepted. Small
schools for training nurses have beef
placed on the accredited list
Since the entrance Of the Unite,
States In the war the number of pu
pills entering nurses training school
has increased 20 per cent. Within tn
last few days the Red Cross has re
cruited and equipped group Of 10
nurses for the Army Nurses Corp
for service with the British Expedi
tionary Forces at the request of tn
British Government. 1t has ais.
modified several highly specialize,
groups Of nurses for orthopedic, psy
chiatric and facial surgery hospitals
as well as mobile operating units an,
other important groups.