Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-07-26
$4,000 WOMEN CALLED
TO ENROLL AS NURSES
Nations Reserve Depleted by Call
ing Graduate Nurses to Mill
tary Hospitals

The Government is calling for U.s.
900 young women to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurse.
The war is creating an unprece-
denied demand for trained nurses.
Only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for serv-
ice 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 or three years. Every young
woman who enrolls in the United
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 fighting
forces.
Age.-The call is for women be-
tween the ages of nineteen and
thirty-five.
Qualifications. = Intelligent, re-
sponsible women of good education
and sound health are wanted-the
pick Of the country. A college educa-.
ton is a valuable asset, and many
hospitals will give credit for it.
Creoit will also be given for special
scientific equipment or for prelimin-
airy 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 eevn require full
high-school education.
Enrollment.-W Women will be given
tied States Students Nurse Reserve
in any one of three ways:
(1) AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April l,
1919, to accept assignments to
nurses training schools. These wo-
men will be sent to the schools as
fast as vacancies occur. Those of
superior qualifications will be given
preference, and it is, of course, pos
sible 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.
60 AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April 1,
1919, to accept assignments to either
a civilian training school or the
Army Nursing School. Those who
so 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.
An honorable service.-Ever since
the days of Florence Nightingale
the nursing profession has been one
of especial honor. 1t was never so
honorable as it is today. The army
needs every nurse it can get to keep
up with the draft" The United
States Student Nurse Reserve is the
equivalent 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 in
jured and disabled in our hazardous
war industries. and to make them
selves ready to serve when the time
comes as fully trained nurses, either
either abroad or at home. Enroll at
the nearest recruiting station estab
1ished by the woman's committee of
the council of national defense.
Minnesota is being called on to
furnish 1000 student nurses and
Stevens county should furnish five.
Detailed information can be obtained
from Mrs. F. A. Hancock, Stevens
County Chairman, Women's Commit
tee. Council of National Defense.
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