The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-06-06
SCOPE OF CAMPAIGN
This Campaign to Enroll 5000 Nurs
es Must be Conducted IN Four
Directions


Directions
1. The Registered Nurse.
2. The Nurse-Employnig Public.
3. The Medical Profession.
4. Institutions and Organizations
Employing Graduate Nurses.
1t is highly important that every
possible effort be made to arouse gen
eral public interest IN the serious
need of providing an adequate nursing
force for our Army and Navy. An
aroused public sympathy and inter
est in this feature of the war is bound
to have its strong, although indirect,
effect upon the campaign and will be
of extreme value to the Red Cross in
future campaign to augment the
nursing forces.
The specific lines of appeal may
be laid down as follows:
l. APPEAL TO THE REGIS
TERED NURSE:
a. The chief appeal to the nurse
should be the grounds of patriotism
and patriotic duty. Next to the enlist
ment of soldiers and sailors there is
not a greater need than an adequae
enrolment of nurses. A great respOn-
sibility, therefore, rests upon them.
! This is the only group of women rec
ognized as a part of the military es-
Enlistment Upon them devolve to
4 great degree the health, morale and
! lives of the men who are fighting for
US. Insufficient or incompetent nurs-
| ing means a menace to the United
| States forces gruesome to contem-
plate Nurses must be secured in in
creasing numbers to meet this emer-
gency.
1t would be impossible to enroll and
train in sufficient time the force of
women needed to protect the lives of
the troops who are now in France
and who are going abroad IN a steady
stream. Therefore, the responsibility
devolves directly upon the registered
nurses of the country to enroll and
upon the graduate nurses not yet
registered to make themselves eligi-
BILE for enrolment.
Furthermore, the nurses should be
| impressed not only with their respon-
sibility but with their patriotic op-
portunity and privilege.
Never in the history of the world
has the demand for competent nurs-
es been so great; never has any per
son been privileged to render his or
her country, and the world at large,
a great service than the American
| nurses has today Thousands upon
thousands of nurses will be needed.
Those who enroll now will have the
privilege of forming the pioneer corps
which will receive the gratitude OF
the military and naval authorities
the blessings of the American forces
at the front, and the homage of the
American people at large.
b. The attention of nurses is called
especially to the insurance provided.
Under the provision of the Govern
, ment Insurance Law enacted for the
, protection of the Army and Navy.
nurses assigned to duty as members
of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps
. Will be able to obtain at nomlnable
rates, protection for themselves as
well as for designated members OF
their families dependent upon them
Such provision has never before been
; made for Army and Navy nurses.
c. Above al she viii have the in
finite satisfaction of knowing thai
she is lessening the suffering of the
boys of her own country; those bound
: to her by ties of blood, friendship and
: national brotherhood.
d. The standard of the Red Gross
nurses in the United States has been
( maintained at a point higher than
5 that in any other country. This IS the
equivalent to saying that the Ameri-
can soldier and sailor who is attend
5 ed by a nurses in the Army and Navy
I CORPS. receives better care so far as
nursing is concerned, than the soldier
: or sailor of any other nation. 1t IS
, desirable that this standard be main
: tanned, and the pride of the nurses
should be appealed to along this line
2. APPEAL TO THE NURSE
. EMPLOYING PUBLIC:
: a. While the appeal in this cam
paign. is to be made directly to the
registered nurses, a highly important
factor in the success of the campaign
is the nurse-employing public.
Thousands of nurses are being en-
: ployed by persons who could dispense
{ with their service without injury to
themselves. These nurses in many IN
stances are retained by the well-to-do
partly in the capacity OF companions
Many others are retained IN cases OF
minor illnesses where the services OF
a trained nurses are really not need
z ed. Every person who today employs
l a trained nurse when not absolutely
needed deprives our soldiers at the
front of imperatively needed care and
is therefore giving aid to the enemy
: 1t is the duty of the public to con
S serve nursing activities as much tC
2 conserve food. For any person to re-
2 tan the services OF q trained nurse
D needleSsly means that that person
r selfshly or thoughtlessly deprives g
< large number of sick and wounded
: soldiers Of aid that would preserve
r their health or their lives. Divisions
s and chapters are urged to impress:
t this situation on the people by every
: means possible.
D. It has come to the knowledge
0 of the Department of Nursing Of the
: American Red Cross, that many per
T sons desiring to employ nurse. have
T specified that she be not enrolled II
: the Red Cross because Of their feal
t that the nurse may be called to ser
: vice IN the Army and Navy Corps anC
t that a change would be necessary
, The result has been that many OF thu
: most patriotic women m the word
e the nurses who have signifed thei
). willingness to share IN the hardships
7 the dangers and privaticns inciden
2 20 Kar-haze been discriminate.