The Washington times., 1918-06-01
NURSE SCHOOL TO
BE OF PERMANENT
VALUE TO nation
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
fcontinusd from First Pars.l

win be IN a position to relieve srses
uats nurses for work abroad.
AT the end Of three years of
training, the women viii Be given .
diploma which win enable them e
practice. II they like. In aay STATE
Of the union. They win be gradu4ts
nurses IN every sense o. the word
College graduates viii be given .
credit OF nine months or approzl-
mately an academic year, in enter
ing. Credit OF three months win be
given 70 students who have had tive
or more years OF college o. Approved
technical schools that have Include
prescribed courses In science.
Should the war end before the
three-year course ls completed, =
certifIcate viii be given which viii
enGtIe the holder 70 ree6gnition ~
such civil hospital training schools
a. may subsequently accept her e.
student
There Is no tuition fee. hut pay
ment Of SIS q month for each nurse,
q sum intended to cover cost of uni-
form Board. lodging. textbooks. and
Instruction VIII be provided without
cost
Fer Reeongtruefion Days.
irrespective Of the Immediate need
for war purposes, there q a definite
aim IN the m0Vemsnt which looks 10
reconstruction after the war. Public
health work % constantly Increasing.
Many women will today take instru-
tIon IN nursing because q patriotic
feeling who would not otherWieo
have taken an interest IN that sub
ject.
At the end OF the war there win BE-.
therefore, IN America great body ot
women with = practical knoWledge of
health ssrvice. They may not want
to practice nursing. but they VII
have an indirect inhuencs on the
communities IN which they live. e.
they, win ada to the sum total o.
knoagledgs therein Of all phases of
civic and social. school, and public
health service, and measures for the
conservation OF child life.
Indeed. during their three-yeaF
course. the student nurses viii Be As
signed for q time to civilian hospitals,
where they may learn something
about the. care OF women and chill
dren- Thus they win round cut their
education for = diploma
Fo savs Babies.
4KCm . EeCOnIArDGAAy4 RNAAA -
view, few plans win be OF more i'm
portanee than those relating 70 the
conservation OF human life during
and after the war. Infant mortality
must be prevented because Casualties
abroad win seriously 'anect Americas,
families for many years to come not
only because many men either new
married or who would marry win not
return. but beeause poverty and other
economic causes due to the war VII
tsnd to diminish the birth rate.
Every. child born during the var
viii be many times as valuable to the
nation as the infant Of previous
years. BY eniisting the Interest and
enthusiasm Of women throughout the
nation IN nursing. the United states
Will ,beneht immeasurably IN pre8orY-
ing the nber OF the people and at the
same time in having adequate means
to care for the sick and wounded in
hospitals both here and abroad. Lho
standards OF care viii be increased
as a definite system under competent
instructors win be established.
The factulity win be presided over By
Miss Annie Goodrich. Of New York. who
- to be dean OF the School of Nursing.
with an advisory council Of the foremost
authorities in the country, including he
superintendents Of the army and navy
nurse corps, the director OF the Depart
ment Nursing Of the American Red
Cross, the presidents Of the American
Nurses Association. the National League
Of Nursing Education. and the National
Organization for Public Health Nursing.
The women OF the country have
been called upon TO do many things
since the outbreak Of war, but not
until the present plans was formu-
lated has there seemed to be a way
in which they could perform military
service Of q concrete character In
this country which would be OF ma
terial aid to the army and navy
abPoad In helping them to the nnal
victory.