The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-25
WANTED, $4,000 WOMEN
ENROLL NURSE RESERVE.
AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM OF
THOSE WHO HAVE THE
QUALIFICATIONS.

The government is calling for 25. 900
young women to join tho United States
student nurse reserve and hold them
selves 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 training
course are eligible for service with our
forces overseas. These nurses are be-
ing drawn largely from our hospitals
at home. Their places must be filled
by student nurses enrolled for the full
training course of from two to three
years. Every young women who en-
rolls in the United States student
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 Am
erican people will depend the spirit
of their fighting forces.
Qualifications.
! Age-The call Is for women between
the ages Of nineteen and thirty-five
| observation-disclosures, respons-
ible women of good education and
sound health are wanted-the pick of
the country. "A college education is
valuable asset, and many hospitals
will give credit for it. Credit will also
be given for a special scientific equip
ment or for preliminary training in
nursing, such as that given in special
courses now being conducted by var
ious colleges and schools. Some
schools, on the other hand, do not
even require full high school educa-
ton.
observation-disclosures will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the United
States students reserve in any one of
three ways:
QD AS engaging to hold themselves
In readiness until April l, 1919, to ac-
cept assignments to nurses training
schools. These women will be sent to
the schools as fast as vacancies occur.
Those of superior qualifications will be
given preference. and it is, of course
possible that not everyone who en-
rolls will be accepted.
CD AS desiring to become candidates
for the army nursing school recently
established by authority of the war
department, with branch schools in
selected military hospitals.
CD AS engaging to hold themselves
in readiness until April /, 1919, to ac-
cept assignments to either a civilian
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 thus put down
their names for both.
Nurses Training Schools.
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 neutrality-suspicious.
and deferred. The preferred class will
be those who are ready to accept as
signment to whatever hospital the
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 consid-
grafton will be given to their prefer
snce 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
argely for those who, for family rea- !
IONS, can not accept training at a dis
ance from their homes. Those who /
egister in the deferred class will be I
lssigned only after the preferred class
3 exhausted
The government relies on the pat {
iotism Of those who enroll to fill out I
cards If they possibly can, r
hus volunteering to go where they are c
most needed
Nobody will be assigned to any :
chools whose conditions of training =
re not approved by the state board c
nurse examiners c
Terms of training-The term of =
raining varies from two to three g
ears, according to the requirements c
the particular school to which the Z
tudent nurse may be sent. No course \
likes less than two years nor more D
IAN three ID
Tho Training Course. y
At present every woman who COM n
etes satisfactorily her training in e
~ accredited school is eligible for r.
rvice as an army nurse at the front n
Id stands chance of being assigned ~
duty abroad. At the same time FL
10 will be qualified to earn her living Fa
one of the noblest professions open &c &c
women. 1t should be remembered. q,
rthermore, that her usefulness will OR
gin not when she graduates from the Ge
aiming soboo, h,,. &c
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