Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-11
Society EUerlts and Personals
VITAL PATRIOTIC
WORK FOR NURSES,
SAYS MISS DELANO

''For a single wounded American
soldier OF sailor to lack proper. nuFs-.
ing would be q blot forever on Am
erican womenhooA.-
The married woman who has been
trained for nursing has one of the
most valuable and practical gifts any
woman can offer to her country at this
time" said Miss Jane A. Delano, di-
rector, department of nursing Ameri-
can dFCrosa
There is a vital patriotic work
waiting for every trained nurse Ia the
United States now, and there will be
more work calling for such skill a.
each 1000 military nurses are sent to
military hospitals here and abroad.
The surgeon general has called for
$4,000 graduate nurses by January
i. n the navy needs additional
nurses. These nurses will dock to the
colors, for American women are as
brave and as loyal as are their men.
upon all who car enter the military
nursing service to enroll at once and
urges every married and retired nurse
to prove her patriotism and her hu-
manity to her community by enroll
ing lat once as a Home Defense
Nurse for emergency nursing activi-
ties in her own locality.
What will the marching away to
the front Of these uniformed nurses
mean to our hometown cities? 1t
will mean that few nurses will be
lilies. and that all nurses who for
physical or other important reasons
cannot perform military service will
become more essential to the great
public hospitals where life is saved
and suffering relieved on a truly
wholesale scale. The service Of each
remaining nurse must be utilized to
the utmost to aid as many sick as
possible. In addition, there will be
too few nurses on regular duty to
cope with local catastrophies and cpl
lie health, school. district and visiting
nursing work.. The places Of those
who answer the call to the colors
clearly must be taken by those nurses
who are not following their profess
sion.
Married nurses can do nedghborly
nursing, just as in the past kindly
women unframed but with natural
aptitude for comforting the sick, used
to hold themselves at the call of
stricken nedshbors. If they can not
stay throughout q case, the married
nurses, when no other nurse is OBJ
tainable. in critical medical, surgical
or maternity cases. can care for the
patient during the actual crisis and
visit her occasionally. A married
nurse in a few hours each day could
bring help n comfort to several
homes.
'other nurses will Be needed on
certain days at dispensaries. baby
saving stations or diet kitchens. Still
others could continue school nursing
work " handle part Of the territory
= of a district or country nurse. Those
who cannot help at bedsides can be
of great service in times Of emergen-
cies' Il they are enrolled in the Red
Cross emergency nursing groups.
'It is clear that each married nurse
can make her home a center for tho
conservation Of life and human
strength. At q time when local doc
tors = much fewer in number she
can maintain public health and con-
'trol epidemics.
Every woman VINO has enjoyed
nurses training owes a very definite
duty to her country. I am certain
that No graduate nurse viii hesitate
when the nation 30 sorely needs her
service to make the world not merely
q place TT for men to live in, but one
into which women will be willing to
bring children"