Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-07-26
$4,000 WOMEN WANTED.

The Government is calling for 25.-
900 young women to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurses.
The war is creating an unprece-
dented demand for trained nurses
Only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for SER
vice with our forces overseas. These
nurses are being drawn largely from
our hospitals at home. Their places
must be filled by student nurses en-
rolled for the full training course of
from two to three years. Every young
States Student Nurse Reserve is re-
leasing 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 American people
will depend the spirit of their fight
ing forces.
Age.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen ana
thirty-five.
Intelligent, responsible 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 Il
special scientific equipment of for
preliminary training in nursing, such
as that given in special courses now
being conducted by various colleges
and schools. Some schools, on the
other hand, do not even require u
full high-school education.
observation-disclosures will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the United
States Student Nurse Reserve in any
of three ways:
~ as engaging to hold themselves
in readiness until April 1, 1919, to
accept assignments to nurses train
ing schools. These women will be
sent to the schools as fast rs vacan-
cies occur. Those. of superior quail
fications will be given preference,
and it is, of course, possible that not
everyone who cnrolls will be ac-
copied.
(2) AS desiring to become candi-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by authority of
the War Department, with brancn
(3) As engaging to hold them
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1919, to accept assignments to either
civilian training school or the
Army Nursing School. Those who SD
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
The Nurses Training Schools.
There arc 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 preferred
and deferred. The preferred class
will be those who are ready to accept
assignment to whatever hospital the
Governments directs them, although
they may state what training school
they prefer to be sent to. Those who
be assigned first, and all possible
preference 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 in
tended largely for those who, for
family reasons, can not accept train
ing at distance from their homes.
Those who register in the Deferred
class will be assigned only after the
Preferred class is exhausted.
The Government relies OH the pat
riotism of those who enroll to fill out
Preferred cards if they possibly can,
thus volunteering to go where they
are most needed
Nobody will be assigned to any
schools whose conditions of training
are not approved by the State Board
of Nurse Examiners.
the days of Florence Nightingale the
nursing profession has been one of
special honor. 1t was never so honor
able as it is today. The Army needs
every nurse it can get to "kecp up
with the draft" The United States
Student Nurse Reserve is the equi-
valent for women of the great
National Army training camps for
soldiers. The Government will rely
upon the student nurses to fight
disease at home, to care for those
injured and disabled in our hazar-
dous war industries, and to make
themselves ready to serve when the
time comes as fully trained nurses,
either abroad or at home. Let us
show that we know how to answer
the Governments call to the women
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