The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-26
U. S. WANTS $4,000 WOMEN
ENROLLED IN THE NURSE RESERVE
Women Between 10 and 35 Wanted
in the Student Nurse Reserve,
for Training in Hospitals


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 woman who enrolls in the
United States Student Nurse Re
serve is releasing nurse for service
at the front and swelling the home
army which we must rely on to act
as our second line of hospital de-
fense. Upon the health of the Amer
lean people will depend the spirit of
their fighting forces.
Age.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and
thirty-five.
Qualifications Intelligent, re-
sponsble women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country A college ed
ucation is valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it.
Credit will also be given for special
scientific equipment or for prelimi
nary training in nursing, such as
that given in special courses now be-
ing conducted by various colleges
and schools Some schools, on the
other hand do not even require a
full high school education.
Women will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the
United States Students Nurse Re
serve in any one of three ways:
(D As engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April I.
1919, to accept assignments to nurses
training schools. These women will
be sent to the schools as fast as va
cancies occur. Those of superior
qualifications will be given prefer
ence, and it is, of course, possible
that not everyone who enrolls will be
accepted.
(2) AS desiring to become candi-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by authority of
the War Department, with branch
schools in selected military hospitals.
(3) As engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April 1,
1919, to accept assignments to either
civilian training school or the
Army Nursing School. Those who
so enroll will be called where the
first need arises The government
hopes that majority of those who
enroll will thus put down their
names for both.
The Nurses Training School
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 registrants-preferred
and deferred. The preferred class
will be those who are ready to ac-
cept assignment to whatever hospital
the government directs them, al
though they may state what train
ing school they prefer to be sent to.
Those who register in the Preferred
class will be assigned first, and all
possible consideration will be given
to their preference as stated. TIE de-
ferred class is composed of those
who limit their pledge of service
that is, who will not engage to go 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
Pretefed class is exhausted
The government relies on the pat
riotism of those who enroll to fill
cut 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.
Terms of Training term of
training varies from two to three
years, according to the require
ments of the particular school to
which the student nurse may be sent.
No course takes less than two years
nor more than three.
What the Training Course Pre-
pares for.-At present every woman
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