The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-09
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THE NURSES RANKS
virginia Women Eager to Enter Field
Tor Conservation OF
IAfe
MISS VAN WORT is BUSY
Letters Addressed to Her At Stuart
Circle Hospital, Will Receive Inn
mediate Attention-Red Cross
Takes Many Volunteers.

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u Takes Many Volunteers.
Women throughout Virginia are
Writing daily to Miss Rosa Van Wort.
chairman Of the committee on nurs-
Ing Of the Graduate Nurses associa-
ton. stating that they are eager to
enter the profession. Most of these
are tmbued with the double purpose
! OF desiring to train In scientific work
ana to take UP patriotic service of
the highest order. 1t is an excellent
thing for the educated girls of the
STATE to prepare themselves for field
OF opportunity which liz growing con-
sta ntly.
H. Although the course requires three
years, and many young women say
that 1t 10 q great deal OF time to give
10 preparatory work, not single stu
dent who has been in training so
much ~ q month considers the period
TOO long. There are 30 many phases
10 the course and a vast amount OF
ground must be covered II the hospi-
tai and the nurse are doing their full
duty to each other and to the public.
Unlike other professions. the student
Is not combined to q time OF theoreu-
cal inactivity. but become = vital force
In her hospital and In the community
shortly after enrolling. BY her pres
Nnce, graduate is permitted to enter
/ Red Cross service and to respond to
the heavy demands of the govern
ment, which by the first OF the year
will have called more than half the
registered graduate nurses or Vir-
SInia.
Happy Class OF Women.
Since the days of Florence Night
inkaIe. nurses have been a peculiarly
happy class OF women, and the student
IL no exception to this rule. Her life
I'm the nurses home is informal and
most enjoyable while her hours on
duty are subject to a military dis
cipiine. which extends to her leisure
hours. This system of the strict en-
forcament OF rules makes for justice
kRnd system, tending toward a healthy
attitude regarding the authorities.
There is no danger OF patients i'm
posing upon student nurses. and the
lfdea that the training impairs girls
Ideals of modesty is considered by
lali who have completed the course as
absurd
Parents may feel entirely safe in
following their daughters to leave
home for entry into the hospitals OF
the state, for the student always bene-
lfts from the regular hours and sim
ME. but wholesome food which is
iserved. lafe is far more active than
Iany which she has experienced before
and the many human interests with
which each student comes into con
tact daily has a most broadening in
ifsuence 1t Is important for all pres
Epective nurses TO study the standing
lof the hospital which they ccntemplat-
ing entering. There are accredited
hospitals and those which are not re-
Ecognized by the hoard of examiners
icf the Graduate Nurses association
lGraduates frorp the first groun are
leleEible to become registered nurses
latter having passed the state examina
ltlon. but members OF the other class
Twin not be accepted by the wtate. II
lis not always the largest institution
which IL the best
Vacancies In Hospitals.
Many smaller hospitals have excel
lent equipment and teaching facili-
ties including hrst-class instructors.
The heads OF the various departments
are able Ia give more individual help
to tho girls and TO ;urn out graduates
Who would shine anywhere in the
country The size of thu hospital has
nothing TO do with the question OF
lefYfciency All young women apply
Ing to Miss Van Wort will be directed
10 h ipitals capable OF giving aceep-
liable training She is now ascertain
hing the number OF nurses which can
he accom- m odated in the various hos
spttalx Of the state. Many have sever
al vacancies, while others have filled
their classes.
n II desirious to keep the ranks
IwslI filed as there will be always
Iulenty of work for the nurses. The
jAmouAt OF Recommendation service to
he carried on In this country and in
France following the war will, in the
mind of the profession, be enormous,
since the dawn of nursing history
each epoch of the work has been
married by 4 war which has left an
andelihle impression upon the world.
III will be the same now. only in far
kreater forms. Nurses and doctors
will not all return. and many will
ZONE home broken in mind and body,
Ind u..ahle TO carry on their useful
careers. They viii be accompanied
by soldiers and sailors suffering from
hsAkan bones which have not knit
correctly and which will have to be
Fabroken. Sanitary conditions In the
old world will be In bad condition
which will have to he adjusted by
Americans. while little French and
BAfxtan children. with their soreiy
trfed mothers will have to be nursed
Aack TO a sembiance OF their former
health.
IA addition to all this. there viii be
The civilian work at home. which
meAas the spreading Of the invaluable
60ctfine OF preventive medicine
lhrough public health work. For all
~ fhese activities only the highest
kyne Of young women are wanted.
Those who have completed high
kchool work or its equivelant and
many having attended college. The
board Of examiners will accept moth
~ less than one-year OF high school.
6ut there Ia hardly a hospital in the
Etate 20 easily satisfied. Full details
Ean Be obtained from communicating
Eith Miss Van Wort, Stuart Circle hos
hltal. this city.