The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-19
$4,000 STUDENT NURSES.
Are Wanted for the United States Nurse
Reserve

| The government is calling for $4,000
young women to join the United States
student nurse reserve and hold them
selves in readiness TO train for service
as nurses.
| The war Is creating an unprecedented
demand for trained nurses. Only those
who have taken the full training course
are eligible for service with our forces
overseas. These nurses are being drawn
largely from our hospitals at home.
Their places must be filled by student
nurses enrolled for the full training
course of from two to three years. Every
young woman who enrolls in the United
States student nurse reserve is releasing
a nurse for service at the front and
swelling the home army which we must
rely on to act as our second line of hos
pital defense. Upon the health Of the
American people win depend the spirit
of their fighting forces.
Age-The call is for women between
the ages of 10 and 80.
Qualifications-In Intelligent, responsible
women of good education and sound
health are wanted-the pick of the coun-
try. A college education is a valuable
asset, and many hospitals will give cred.
| it for it. Credit will also be given for a
special scientific equipment or for pre-
| liminary 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 full high school education.
Enrollment-W Women will be given an
opportunity TO enroll in the United
States student nurse reserve i'm any one
| of three ways;
~ As engaging to hold themselves in
readiness until April /, 1919, to accept
assignments TO nurses training schools.
These women will be sent to the schools
as fast as vacancies occur. Those of SUI
perior qualifications will be given prefer
euce, and it is, of course, possible that
not everyone who enrolls will be accept
ed.
(2l As desiring TO become candidates
for the army nursing school recently
established by authority of the war de-
partment, with branch schools in select
ed military hospitals.
81 As engaging to hold themselves in
readiness until April /, 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 majority of those who enroll will
thus put down their names for both.
The Nurses Training Schools.
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 vacan-
cies occur.
The enrolment card will indicate two
classes of registrants- preferred and de-
ferred The preferred class will be those
who are ready to accept assignment to
whatever hospital the government d.
reefs them, although they may state
what training school they prefer to be
sent to. Those who register in the pre-
ferred class viii be assigned first, and all
possible consideration will be given to
their preference as stated. The deferred
class is composed Of those who limit
their pledge of service-that is, who viii
not engage TO 60 except to certain hos
pitfalls. This class is intended largely
for those who, Cor family reasons, can
not accept training 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 on the patriot
ism of those who enroll TO fill out pre-
ferred 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 APP
proved by the state board of nurse exam
iners
Terms of training-The term of train
ing varies from two to three years, ac-
cording to the requirement of the par
ticular school to which the student nurse
may be sent. No course takes less than
two wears nor more than three.
What the training course prepares for
AT present every woman who COM
pletes satisfactorily her training in any
accredited school is eligible for service
as an army nurse at the front and stands
chance of being ASSIGNED to duty
abroad At the same the she will be
qualified to earn her living in one of the
noblest professions open to women. 1t
should be remembered, Furthermore, that
her usefulness will begin not when she
graduates from the training school but
as soon as she enters it, Practical nurs-
ing work is a part of the work of every
training school, and the student nurse is
not only learning to serve but serving
her country from the outset
Finances--lThe student nurse gets her
board, lodging and tuition free at prac-