The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-08-09
NAVY CALLS FOR NURSES.
(By Mary King.)

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Following up my article of last
week about the training schools for
army nurses to be established thru
out the country, | would like to re-
mind the women who are consider
| ing entering the service as nurses
that the navy is now in need of and
is calling for nurses for military
and public service.
Surgeon General BREASTED has
made the following statement in re-
gard to this service:
Never before in history has there
been such a great opportunity for the
nursing profession to come for
ward and render the greatest service
/ possible to mankind in the caring
| for sick and wounded. A large
number of nurses will be required
not only Immediately, but for some
time after the war has ended, to
restore to health, comfort and use
| fulness the MANNED and injured who
have suffered because of the enor-
nous struggle now being waged in
Europe.
1.-THE nursing profession of the
country is called upon in the same
way as in the medical profession TO
render the utmost service of which
it is capable.
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success. 1t is not only the duty, but
also mandatory that every trained
nurse who is capable of serving
should come forward at this time
and take up that part of the bur-
den which is hers.
Several thousand nurses are
needed to wait upon the personnel
of the navy at the large hospitals in
this country, as will as several naval
base hospitals in European waters.
Unless the personnel of the navy re-
ceives adequate medical and nursing
attention the control of the seas
must suffer. therefore urge all the
women nurses of training and ex-
perience who are physically and pro-
fessionally capable of rendering ser
vice to come forward and enroll for
duty. Preliminary enrolment has
been placed in the hands of the
! American Red Cross. Under con-
gressional law, officers of the navy
are authorized to accept civil as
sistance from this great humanitarian
organization which has to date so
capably fulfilled its purpose"
We have had our Liberty Loan
campaigns, food and fuel conserva-
ton campaigns, War Savings Stamp
drives, and countless other war &C
tivity campaigns. Now the public
is urged to start save a nurse"
campaign, which is to discourage
employment of individual nurses for
single patients, except in serious
cases. Wherever possible, those
in need of nursing attention are ask
ed to apply to hospitals or call on
the visiting nurses.
This appeal for nurses for the ma
Wy follows directly the call for army
nurses. Both branches of the service
have designated the Red Cross as
recruiting or enrolling agency for
military nurses who are eligible for
war service.
Married nurses and others who
have, for one reason or another, CIV
en- up their profession are asked to
return to practice, or to give some
time each week to a hospital or Wis
iting nurses association, or to help
in diet kitchens, dispensaries, or 9TH
err public health conservation activi-
ties.
This appeal is also directed to the
graduates of high schools and col
leges to enroll themselves as stud
ent nurses in some military or civil
hospital, and thereby release grad
uate nurses for service with the army
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