The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-19
NEED $4,000 WOMEN
AS STUDENT NURSES
Members Of National Defence
Committee Send Call for
New Reserve Body.

wanted-25.o 900 women TO enroll IN
the United States student nurse reserve |!
That's the message Uncle Sam sends
out to-day through the womens Com
mittee Of the Council Of National De-
fence.
If there are $4,000 young women in
the country with the will and the qualin-
cations to take the training for the pro-
fession OF caring for the sick and In
jured our soldiers and sailors on the
| other side can be looked after and the
; hospitals on this side need not suffer
seriously from depleted STATS For the
students, who begin to do practical work
as soon as they enter the training
school. will release graduate nurses for
service abroad and the work will go on
smoothly.
This new appeal which is signed by
Surgeon General Gorsas of the United
States Army. Surgeon-General Blue OF
the United States Public Health Service.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman Of
the women's Committee OF the Council
OF National Defence: II. p. Dawson.
chairman Of the WAR Council of the
Red Cross. and Franklin Martin. chair
man OF the general medical board Of the
Council Of National Defence. names
July 20 as the date for enrolments to
begin.
Status Of student.
The student, even the volunteer. be-
fore she enters training Is classed as
member Of Uncle Sans nursing army.
She is n part of the national student
nurse reserve. She Is swelling the
lit ns,t
as our second line Of defence" And II
she completes satisfactorily her two
years or three years of training she is
eligible for service as an army nurse
and stands a chance OF being assigned to
duty abroad.
The committee calls for women be-
tween the ages of 10 and 35, and an
nounces frankly that II wants the pick
| of the country" Candidates must be
Of sound health and good educatlon--lf
| they have a college education or have
had special scientific courses they will.
| in most hospitals, receive credit for this.
But there are training schools whicn
, do not even require a high school
diploma.
There are three ways in which can
| didates may enroll. First, as holding
| themselves in readiness until April !,
1919. to enter nurses training school.
| Second as wishing to enter the Army
| Nursing School lately established under
| the War Department. with schools In
| military hospitals. Third. as being
| willing TO enter either OF those branches
! and the Government hopes that many
young women will consent to so into
Glass 3.
Preferred Class Needed.
There are 1879 nurses training
schools in the country, and some OF
them are pretty badly off for the girl,
! in the crisp caps and Bingham dresses,
| without whom patients must suffer and
| the work of the hospitals go undone.
These schools are scattered from the
! Atlantic to the Pacific. OF course. and
| It will greatly simplify matters II a
majority of those who enroll in the
coming drive will put themselves down
! in the Preferred Class the class whose
members are willing to go to whatever
| hospital the Government desires. The
' Deferred Glass IL for those who, for
| family or other reasons. cannot go far
, from their homes, and must specify
certain hospitals. The women in the
| Preferred Glass will be assigned first.
and their preferences as to hospitals
will be consulted as far as possible.
There is no danger. the appeal adds,
that there will be too many nurses. or
that any good ones will md themselves
out Of work Even il the war ends
in three years" runs the assurance.
every student nurse can complete her
training and will be needed, for after
the war there will be reconstruction
work to do"