The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-31
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WOMENS COMMITTEE OF Ma
TIONAL DEFENSE is RE-
CRUITING NURSES
CAN YOU JOIN
REGISTER FOR RESERVE CORPS
AT POST-OFFICE OR RED
CROSS ROOMS.

The Womens Committee of the Ma
tional Defense Council has started
upon it's work of recruiting young
women. for the United States Stu
dent Nurse Reserve, and young wo-
men who wish to serve their country
IL this capacity may register at eth
er the local postoffice or the Red
Cross rooms. Mrs. E. A. Pease, the
local member of the committee calls
the attention of the public to the fol-
lowing information concerning the
work. The recruiting will continue
from July 29 to August II.
TIL war is creating an unprecedent-
ed demand for trained nurses. .O1ly
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 hospi-
tails at home. Their places mus. be
filled by student nurses enrolled for
the full training course of from two
to three years. Every young woman
who enrolIs il 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 thir-
ty-five.
QUALIFICATION re-
sponsible women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country. A college edu-
cation is a valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it. Gre
dit will also be given for a special
scientific equipment or for prelimin-
airy training in nursing, such as that
given il special courses now being
conducted by various colleges and
schools. Some schools, on the other
hand, do not even require full high
school education.
ENROLLMENT- will be
given al opportunity to enroll in the
United States Students Nurse Reserve
in any one of the three ways:
G) AS engaging to hold themselv-
es in readiness until April 1, 1919, to
accept assignments to nurses training
schools. These women will be sent
to the schools as fast as vacancies
occur. Those of superior qualifica-
tions will be given preference, and it
is, of course, possible that not every
one who enrolls will be accepted.
~ 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 themselv-
es in readiness until April /, 1919, to
accept assignments to either a civil
liam training school or the Army
Nursing School Those who so enroll
will be called where the first need
arises. The Government hopes that
a majority of those who enroll will
mus put OOWu IIl6lf IldIIlGS IOT UOGu
TRAINING SCHOOL
There are l, $40 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
ed and Deferred. The Preferred class
will be those who are ready to &C
cept assignment to whatever hospita
the Government directs them, al
though they may state what training
school they prefer to be sent to. Those
who register il the Preferred elias:
will be assigned first, and all possibl,
consideration will be given to theil
preference as stated. The Deferred
class is composed of those who limi
their pledge of service-that is, wht
will not engage to go except to certain
hospitals. This class is intende,
largely for those who, for family rea
sons, can not accep. training at /;
distance from their homes. Thos
who register in the Deferred class viii
be assigned Only after the Preferre,
class is exhausted.
The Government relies on the pa
triotism of those who enroll 70 fiji
out Preferred cards if they posi-
bly, can, thus volunteering to go wher
they are most needed.
~ Nobody will be assigned to an
: schools whose condition of. trai1in,
are no. approved by the State Boar
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