The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-24
SERVICE FOR WOMEN.
-o,OOO women wanted TO Enroll i'm
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 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
pitals at home. Their places must be
iiiled by student nurses enrolled for
the full training course of from two
to three years. Every young woman
who enrOlls in the United States
Student Nurse Reserve is releasing
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
the spirit of their fighting forces.
Age.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thirty
five.
Qualifications, = Intelligent, re-
spOnsiblc women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country. A college educa-
ton is a valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it.
Credit will also be given for special
scientific equipment or for prelimin-
airy training i'm nursing, such as that
given in special courses now being
conducted by various colleges AMI
schools. Some schools, on the other
hand, do not even require a full high
school education.
Enrollment-Wom will be
eiven an opportunity to enroll in the
United States Student Nurse Re-
serve in any one of three ways:
CD AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April /, 1919,
to accept assignments to nurses
training 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.
CD 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 hospitals
t3 As engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April l, 1919,
to accept assignments to either a
civilian training school or the Army
Nursing School. Those who so en-
roll 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 nlrses' training
schools in this country Their need
is as great and imperative as that o.
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 ac-
cept assignment to whatever hos
pital the government directs them,
although they may state what train
ing school they prefer to be sent to
Those who register in the Preferred
class will be assigned first, and all
possible consideration will be given
to their preference as stated. The
Deferred class Is composed of those
who limit their 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 train
ing at a distance from their homes.
Those who register i'm 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 fill GU.
Preferred cards il they possibly can,
thus volunteering to, go where they
are most needed.
Nobody will be assigned to any
schools whose conditions of training
are not approved by the State Board
OF Nurse Examiners.