Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-30
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
| TO HELP NURSES
So That Former War Workers
May be Quite as Useful in
Civil Life.

| In order to aid the movement To have
nurses and those who desire to become
nurses Mrs. Joseph Bancroft today made
| the following announcement. Mrs. Ban
croft is director Of the Bureau of Hy-
| gene, Delaware Chapter Americ IN
| Red Cross, and lay representative Tor
! Delaware of the National Organization
| for Public Health Nursing The announce
ment follows
The nursing profession like all others
| has been stirred in its foundations by
| the war, not only by wars demands,
| but wars ideals, and IL is safe to prop
! hcsy fer 10 some ra 'ical reorganization.
| 'Ihe superficial and partial solution
Of problems with which nations, in
dlviduals and professions were once
content are no longer satisfying On every
hand we are seeking the fundamental
solution and It's universal application.
This means that IN the nursing pro-
fcssion change of emphasis already
under way Will be greatly hastened. The
nurse from now on will be looked to tn
maintain health and to make the cure of
sickness incidental to that And she will
be asked to make health not the privi-
legc Of the few but the birthright of the
many. Only the nurse can bring about tins
universal application Of the principles
Of health and Of care in sickness for it
is the nurse who reaches Down into the
family and touches the life of the in
dividual
This changed conception of nursing
work means really the development Of
new profession, so far only begun that
Of public health nursing 1t must he
quick development and not gradual
growth for the demands nov arc far
ahead Of the supply and the puthc health
program proposed as the basis of recon
strIction here and abroad make those
demands kmtcss Public health pre-
grams cannot be effectively carried oul
without the help OF nurses Many com
munities. recognizing this fact, have
raised the funds for nurse vi find there
is pone available
The pressing need can be met only
il those nurses who are just completing
one national service will take up this
other and II at the same time il IS made
possible for them 10 scaIre the ne es-
sary training IN it. For the future there
Will need 10 he a revision Of training
courses in hospitals to make room for
work in the public health field "
The Red Cross Bulletin, under date Of
January 13. states that The Red
Gross War Council has appropriated the
sum Of $50 600 for the purpose of Great
ing loan or scholarship fund for nurses
who need instruction In public health
nursing, for the year ending December
81. 1919. these scholarships to bc granted
to enrolled Red Gross nurses on rec
ommendatlon Of the division directors
Of nursing and by the director Of the
Department 81 Nursing at National
Red Gross Headquarters
1T i expected that public health
nursing work will undergo y great eN-
pansion IN the near future and in order
that the Bureau Of Public Health Nursing
max have 2 sufficient personnel to ill the
position It will nc necessary to prepare
large numbers of nurses for the duties !
required The scholarships are designed
to assist many nurses who will be re-
turning from abroad or released from
cantonment service, who may not be |
IN position 70 pay the expenses Of prep |
aration. but who will he glad to devote /
their time to fitting themselves for the |
public health work "