Catoctin clarion., 1918-07-18
Wanted! $4,000 Women

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TO Enroll in The U. S. Student
Nurse Reserve.
The government is calling for $4,000
young women to join the United States
Student Nurse Reserve and hold them
selves in readiness to train for service as
nurses.
The war is creating an unprecedented
demand for trained nurses. Only those
who have taken the full training course
are eligible for service with our forces
overseas. These nurses are being 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
woman who enrolls in the United States
Student Nurse Reserve is releasing
nurse for service at the front and swell
ing the home army which we must rely
on to act as our second line of hospital
defense. Upon the health of the Amer
ican people will depend the spirit of their
fighting forces.
The call is for women between the
ages of nineteen and thirty.five.
Intelligent, responsible women of good
education and sound health are wanted
the pick of the country. A college edu-
cation is valuable asset and many hos
pitals will give credit for it. Credit will
also be given for special scientific
equipment or for preliminary training in
nursing, such as that given in various
colleges and schools. Some schools, on
the other hand, do not even require
high school education.
Women will be given an opportunity
to enroll in the United States Students
Nurse Reserve in any one of three ways:
QD AS engaging to hold themselves in
readiness until April l, 1919, to accept
assignments to nurses training schools.
These women will be sent to schools as
fast as vacancies occur. Those OF su-
perior qualifications will be given prefer
ence, and it is, of course, possible that
not everyone who enrolls will be accept
ed.
(2) As desiring to become candidates
for the Army Nursing School recently
established by authority of the War De-
partment, with branch schools in selected
military hospitals
(3) As engaging to hold themselves in
readiness untilApril l, 1919, toaccept as
signments to either civilian school or
the Army Nursing School. Those who
so enroll will be called when the first
need arises. The Government hopes
that majority of those who enroll will
thus put down their names for BOTH
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 vacan-
cies occur.
The term of training varies from two
to three years, according to the require
ments of the particular school to which
the student nurse might be sent. No
course takes less than two years nor
more than three.
At present every woman who completes
satisfactorily her training in any accred-
tied school is eligible for service as an
Army nurse at the front and stands a
chance of being assigned to duty abroad.
At the same time she will be qualified to
earn her living in one of the noblest pro-
fessions open to women. 1t should be
remembered, furthermore, that her use
fumess will begin not when she graduates
from the training school but as soon as
soon as she enters it. Practical nursing
work is part of the work of every
training school, and the student nurse is
not only learning to serve but serving
her country from the outset.
The student nurse gets her board,
lodging and tuition free at practically
every training school, and in most cases
receives a small remuneration to cover
the cost of books and uniforms. After
graduation she has an earning capacity
of from 500 to $500 month Private
duty nurses now receive an average of
from $lO0 to $l20 month with board
while on duty; institution nurses from
$50 to $3.50 month together with board,
lodging and laundry; and public-health
nurses from $l0O to $3.50 month with
out maintenance. There is no danger of
the earning capacity of nurse being
lowered after the war ends on account
of tho great number who will then be
qualified for the profession; the country
will need all the nurses that can be
trained, not only during the war but af
ter it, especially for reconstruction work
Even if the war ends under three years,
every student nurse will be able to COM
plete her training and will be needed.