New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
Freedom From Ties Makes
for Efficiency, Says Miss
Goodrich
New Call for Students
Fifty Hospitals Asked to Send
Non-Craduates to
France

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.--In answer
TO the query "Why?" that has been
asked over and over again by married
women in the United States who are
barred from the Student Nurse Re-
serve. Miss Anne Goodrich, head of the
PLANTATION to-day.
american army nurses must be
ready for the call of their country to
service just as soldiers are said Miss
Goodrich. Their time and their
thoughts must be devoted entirely to
their work, and when the day comes
for them TO be sent abroad we must be
able 20 send them without having to
make any roadjustments. That is the
reason only unmarried women are
eligible for the Student Nurse Reserve
we want young women for the
Students Nurse Reserve Corps who can
he sent out OF the country with as lit
tie preliminary notice as possible
Their time should belong to the service,
and naturally the young woman who is
free of all ties IS the one upon whom
we can best depend.
Work for Married Women
married women are admitted to the
lanks of the hospital. aides. Their
service is only for this country, and if
anything should happen that their hus
bands should be sent home it would
rgt n y ~ "a ha "
10 free them.
IN a nurses training there is more
10 be considered than in the training
for any other profession. In any other
course II is only the students loss #
he or she fails. But in nursing, the
laboratory IS the hospital ward. The
materials that the students work with
Pc the suffering patients. so, at the
same time that we are responsible for
the students success or failure, we are
responsible for the materials that she
is working with The mistake of
nurse IN training means more than just
her failure. 1t means harm to the
patient who is in her care and who is
the hospitals responsibility"
Fifty American hospitals which or
gained base hospital units for service
in France have been notified by the
Surgeon Generals office that they may
invite limited number of their stu
dent nurses to go to France. There
the Will have the privilege of render
inc service and completing their train
ING at the same time.
Hospital Assistant" New Place
Most of the pupils selected will be
seniors enrolled in the Army School OF
Nursing, and after taking their oaths
they viii be assigned to duty under
the nursing staff of their base hospital
on the other side Each unit Of twenty
five will be in charge of a graduate
nurse, who viii be mutually acceptable
TO both the schools sending their stu
dents and to the Office Of the Surgeon
General.
Many offers of service have come to
the Army Nursing School from mar
NED women who have husbands in the
service. The only hospital service that
is open to married women is newly
created position of "hospital assistant"
To be eligible for admission candidates
must be married women between
twenty-one and forty. whose husbands
are overseas and who are free to give
their service, and also single women
between the ages of thirty-fve and
iorty-tive. They Will be assigned to
convalescent hospitals where there are
no units of Students Nurse Reserve