The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-31
WANTED:
$4,000 WOMEN TO ENROLL IN
IN THE U. S. STUDENT
NURSE RESERVE

The war is creating an unprecedent
ed demand for trained nurses. Only
those who have taken the full train.
ing course are eligible for service with
our forces overseas. These nurses
are being drawn largely from our hos.
pitfalls at home. Their places must be
filled by student nurses enrolled for
the full training course of from two
to three years. Every young woman
who enrols in the United States Stu
dent Nurse Reserve is releasing a
nurse for service at the front and
swelling the home army which we
must rely on to act as our second
line 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.
QUALIFICATIONS - Intelligent,
responsible women of good educa-
ton and sound health are wanted
the pick of the county. A college
education is valuable asset, and
many hospitals will give credit for it.
Credit will also be given for special
scientific equipment or for prelimi-
nary training in nursing, such as that
| given in SPECIAL Coures now being
conducted by various colleges and
schools. Some schools, on the other
hand, do not even require a full high
school education.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will be
given an opportunity to enroll in the
| United States Students Nurse Re-
serve in any one of three ways:
% AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April l, 1919,
to accept assignments to Nurses train
| ing schools. These women will be
sent to the schools as fast as vacan-
cies occur. Those of superior quail
hcations will be given preference,
and it is, of course, possible that not
everyone who enrolls will be accept
ed.
(2) As desiring to become candi-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by authority of
the War Department, with branch
schools in selected military hospi-
tails.
60 As engaging to hold themselves
in readiness until April |, 1919, to &C
cept assignments to either 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 put down
their names for both.
The Nurses Training School
There are 1879 nurses training
schools in this country. Their need
is as great and imperative as that OF
the Army School of Nursing. Those
who enroll for these schools will be
assigned as vacancies occur.
The. enrolment card will indicate
two classes of Observation-Disclosures
and Deferred. The Preferred class
will be those who are ready to accept
| hot he
| government directs them, although
they may state what training school
they prefer to be sent to. Those who
register in the Preferred class will be
assigned first, and all possible con-
sideration will be given to their pref
erence as stated The Deferred elias:
is composed of those who limit theil
pledge of service-that is, who will
not engage to go except to certain
hospitals. This class is intended
largely for those who, for family
reasons, can not accept training at ;
distance from their homes. Thos
who register in the Deferred class will
be assigned only after the Preferred
class is exhausted.
The Government relies on the pa
triotism of those who enroll to fiji
out Preferred cards if they possibl.
can, thus volunteering to go wher
they are most needed.
Nobody will be assigned to an.
] schools whose conditions of trainin!
are not approved by the State Boar'
OF Nurse Examiners.
TERMS OF TRAINING-Th
term of training varies from two t.
three years, according to the require
ments of the particular school t.
which the student nurse may be sent
No course takes less than two year
nor more than three.
WHAT THE COURSE PRE-
PARES FOR-At present every wo
man who completes satisfactorily he
training in any accredited school
eligible for service as an Army nurs
at the front and stands a chance c
being assigned to duty abroad. A
the same time she will be qualifie
e. aorp har I;yipo ~, ono of th