The Robesonian., 1918-07-29
WANTED: $4,000
WOMEN
To Enroll in the United States
Student Nurse Reserve.

The Government is calling for 25,-
600 young women to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurses.
The war is creating nunprece-
dented demand for trained nurses.
Only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for SER
vice with our forces overseas. These
nurses are being drawn largely from
our hospitals at home. Their places
must be filled by student nurses en-
rolled for the full training course of
from two to three years. Every young
woman who enrolls in the United
States Student Nurse Reserve is re-
leasing nurse for service at the front
and swelling the home army which we
must rely on to act as our second lire
of hospital defense. Upon the health
of the American people will depend
the spirit Of their fighting forces.
Age-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thirty
five.
Observation-Disclosures, respon-
sihle women of good education and
sound health are wanted-the pick of
the country. A college education is
a valuable asset, and many hospitals
will give. credit for it. Credit will al
so be given for a special scientific
equipment or for preliminary train
ing in nursing, such as that given in
special courses now being conducted
by various colleges and schools. Some
schools, on the other hand, do not even
require a full high-school education
Enrollment-Women will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the United
State Students Nurse Reserve in any
one of three ways:
Q) AS engaging to hold themselves
in readiness until April /, 1919, to ac-
cept assignments to nurses training
schools. These women will be sent to
the schools as fast as vacancies occur.
Those OF superior qualifications will
be given preference, and it is, of
course, possible that not everyone who
enrolls will be accepted
(2) AS desiring to become candi-
dates for the army nursing school re-
Gently established by authority of the
War Department, with branch schools
IN selected military hospitals.
(3) AS engaging to hold themselves
IN readiness until April /, 1919, to ac-
cept assignments to either a civilian
training school or the Army Nursing
school. Those who so enroll will be
called where the first need arises. The
Government hopes that majority Of
those who enroll will thus nut down
their names for both.
The Nurses Training Schools.
There are 1879 nurses training
schools in this country. Their need
is as great and imperative as that al
the army school of nursing. Those
VINO enroll for these schools will be
assigned as vacancies occur
The enrClimt Mt card will indicate
two classes Of gistrants-preferre
and deferred, The preferred class
wlli be those who are ready to accept
assignment to whatever hospital the
Government directs them, although
they may state what training schoo
they prefer to be sent to. Those who
register IN the preferred class will be
assigned first, and all possible consid
Grafton will be given to their prefer
ence as stated. Tie deferred class is
composed of those who limit thei1
pledge of service-that is, who will
not engage to go except to certain
hospitals. This class is intended
largly for those who, for family rea
sons, can not accept training at ;
distance from their homes. Those wht
register In the deferred class will b,
assigned only after the preferred clas;
is exhausted.
The Government relies on the ma
trlotism of those who enroll to fil