Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-08-19
SPEED, CRY IN !.
NURSE CAMPAIGN
Hamilton County and the State Of
Iowa Is Hard ut Work Trying to
do its Part in the Special
Campaign.
MORE NURSES ARE NEEDED
Bars Have Been Let Down to Admit
Graduates Of Some Smaller
Institutions.


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speed up the nurse-recruiting
campaign" is the message from Sur
geon-G General Gorgas of the army, to
the American Red Cross.
Hamilton county and Iowa is hard at
work to do it's part in this special
campaign. The reason for the extra
exertion is given as the increased par
ticipation of our army in the fighting
in France. Casualties are making de-
mands for more nurses, though these
casualties are not out of proportion to
the forces engaged. Indeed, the Amer
lean forces for the results achieved
have had comparatively light losses.
No Let Up in Campaign.
Many nursing committees have APP
plications for enrolment which can
not be reported until the nurses have
had their examinations, which means
that the total number enlisted will not
be known for some time. Meanwhile,
there should be no let up in the
campaign, for, with the extension OF
the draft age and far larger army
than first contemplated, the need for
nurses will increase correspondingly.
The Red Cross must keep pace with
this growth.
All graduate nurses Of the class OF
1918 are acceptable for enrolment
without the formality of registration.
The Red Cross nurse goes into the
large army and navy cantonment hos
pitfalls; into the sanitary zones around
camps to prevent the spread Of con-
tagion; overseas to hospitals where
the wounded American boys are
brought; into Roumania to bring helm
to starving peasants; into Italy and
France to establish teaching centers
where the principles of health and the
care Of the sick are taught; into
cities and little towns here at home
to aid in controlling outbreaks OF
typhoid, meningitis, and other con-
tagious diseases, and to spread the
doctrine Of good health.
Training Encouraged.
More and more nurses must be sent
and this can only be done by conserv-
ing nursing activities here, and by en-
couraging student nurses to go into
training schools. Every person who
today employs trained nurse when
not absolutely needed deprives SOL
diers at the front Of imperative care
and is, therefore, giving aid to the
enemy.
The committee on public informa-
ton issues the following:
The romantic young girl, unframed,
but thrilled with the desire for gov
eminent hospital service, has learned
that smiles and sweet disposition
alone are not necessary to the con-
servation of the lives of "our boys"
as sound knowledge of asepsis, the
ability to recognize symptoms, and an
understanding of dietetics, according
to Mrs. l.. S. Higbee, chief Of the Navy
Nurse Corps at Washington. A sick
man must be kept happy, she says, but
there is no happiness greater in illness
than the security of expert care.
"a girl may be able to fluff pillow
or write home to mans family, but
she must also know how to dress his
wounds, causing the minimum OF pain,
and must know how to move a frac-
tured limb without wrenching the new
ly set bones apart" is the statement
of the navy nurse. A h
1t is common knowledge today that
the regulations for the appointment or
enrolment of reserve nurses in the
navy have been considerably relaxed
to meet the emergency demand for
thousands of nurses. Only graduates
of high schools and training schools
attached to hospitals numbering more
than 100 beds are eligible for the regu-
lar navy nurses corps. The bars have
been let down enough to admit gradu-
ates of smaller institutions and the
education restriction has been removed
for the reserves, but registration is
retained in the requirements"
Senator Ollie James Seriously iii.
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky,
who has been at Johns Hopkins hos
pital in Baltimore, Md, during the past