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national defense, and may be had application
to the committee nursing, council of national
defense, Washington, ID. c.
In the great majority Of schools the pupil nurse
Is at no expense for tuition, board, room laundry
uniform. The regularity and interest of the
life strengthening physically and mentally.
Salaries after graduation compare favorably with
salaries of other professional women, and unlm-
tied opportunities waiting for the nurse ut the
completion of her course.
1.-THE training offers rich compensations for its
exactng work" said Miss Deano, "for the capable
trained nurse has gained along with knowledge of
suffering and tragedy, the broad outlook of one
who has learned to think in terms Of humanity;
make the world a happier and better place"
What it means to be a Red Cross nurse Is
question that is asked repeatedly at all chapter
headquarters. To be a Red Cross nurse" is to
have met the standards of enrolment of the Red
Cross, and to be subject to such calls of duty
from the Red Cross as are specified In the en-
rollment Red Cross nurses receive no COmpen-
sation except when active duty When called
on for service with the United States army or
navy nurse corps they receive the pay and main
tenance provided by law for these corps, and
entitled to the same War-rsk insurance as officers
and enlisted men. All Red Cross nurses assigned
to duty in military naval hospitals automatically
become members of the Army and Navy Nurse
corps, and after their assignment to duty no
longer under the supervision direction of the
Red Cross.
In order to meet the increasing demands of the
Army and Navy Nurse corps, the Red Cross has
modified its former requirements for enrolment
The age limit has been lowered to tWenty-One
years and in special cases nurses over forty may
be accepted. Smaller schools for nurses have been
placed the accredited list. and applicants are
judged on their merits
The American Red Cross has no schools for
nurses, does it give or authorize any short
course which qualities trained nurse.
Short courses which it does give in Elementary
Hygiene and Home Care Of the Sick" and Home
Detetics are not equivalent to hospital training.
But satisfactory completion of the first course Is
the first step in becoming Red Cross Volunteer
Nurses Aid, the term which Is applied to those
women who, having met definite requirements of
the Red Cross, available for such service as
they have voluntarily pledged themselves to give.
If it becomes necessary to rely on the assistance
Of volunteers aid in the of sick and wound
ed soldiers and sailors they will be selected from
among those who have had this instruction. The
women so selected will be given opportunity for
practical experience of month of eight hours
daily in approved hospitals. No guarantee of Sc
lection for service is given by the Red Cross but
it urges upon the women of the country the prac-
teal value of these courses to home and COM
munity.
every day, at the headquarters of the Red
Cross in Washington, nurses are being modified
for duty at home or abroad" said Miss Delano
"A call may come in the morning for a group of
nurses for service with the British expeditonary
forces, in the afternoon for another group spe-
cially skilled in contagious work for cantonlnent
hospital at home, or for public health nurses need
ed in the sanitary zones surrounding the canton
montS Sometimes thpV in re Of hrnd
or more, sometimes in smaller companies and
sometimes alone; prepared for any hardship, or
any service, with the bronze letters u. S. on the
collars of those serving under the government in
the Army and Navy Nurse corps the Red Cross in.
sigma marking the uniform of those serving di.
rectly under the Red Cross-small emblems of
high service"