Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-09

through training schools everywhere, has ex-
pressed its need of more nurses. Capable and edu-
Gated young women can perform more patriotic
service than by entering training schools for nurses
and thus preparing to adopt nursing a profess
sion This crisis is not just of this year and the
next and perhaps the next but for ma ny years to
come. The sick and wounded may before long be
croWdng our civilian as we'll our base hospitals.
We shall be confronted by serious health prob
lens for many years aftermath of the war"
Since the entrance of the United States into the
war the number of pupil nurses entering training
schools for nurses has increased 20 per cent over
the year before. Very generally, Miss DelanO said,
superintendent and directors of training schools
throughout the country have, with great resource
fulness and energy, arranged for the training and
housing of an increased number of students. Some
times when the latter has not been possible, pub
ltc-spirited people have placed suitable accommO-
datons at their disposal. In some cases, too, the
hours of training have been arranged to permit
students to take the course and live at their own
homes.
Miss Clara Noyes, one of the most distinguished
women of her profession in the United States,
Gently superintendent of the training school for
nurses in connection with Bellevue and its allied
hospitals in New York, and at present director of
the bureau of field nursing of the Red Cross, has
been acting field agent for this bureau for some
weeks addressing mass meetings in a number of
cities urging the recruiting of nurses
Hospitals and training schools undertaking
arduOus difficult and heavily increased tasks with
enthusiasm, as patriotic duty, she reported Also,
they have given and are giving in many instances
the most valued members of their staffs of nurses
for military service, in the spirit of sacrifice
that has made the individual nurse give up all
Sideration of personal comfort or advantage to
face stern duties abroad and the woman who
would eagerly have gone on foreign duty stands
by her post when most needed at home, with the
seadfast purpose of serving the colors with all her
ability wherever she might be assigned
The young probationer just starting out on her
hospital course finds of her greatest satisfac-
lions in the knowledge that she too is serving the
colors from the very first day of her training which
she does very literally by aiding in the care of the
civilian sick and thus helping directly in the pres
ent emergency. And another of the satisfactions
of her work is that Immediately upon the compile
ton of her she enters upon the full respon-
SbilitieS and opportunities for usefulness of the
graduate nurse.
Miss DeanO pointed out further the wide scope
of activities open to the trained nurse and the fact
that after the war, when all the world will be look
ing to a new foundation of public health and well
fare. of superior ability .will be needed in
greater numbers than ever before In hospitals and
schools of nursing as superintendent and SUPER
visorS, instructors and lecturers.
The profession of nursing, Miss Delano empha-
sized is not alone the of the sick in hospitals
and homes. 1t is the care of babies and prenatal
instruction Of mothers; supervision of the health
of schoolchldren; instruction and care of tuber-
cuiosis patients; nursing and welfare work in in
social service; and it enters into almost every
branch of the social service structure.
Bulletins dealing in the most concrete way with
all the questions likely to be asked by young wom
considering the nurses training have been is
sued by the committee on nursing of the council