Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

pital is that sometimes patient in the hospital desires nurse exclusively for his case but cannot pay the rate Of a graduate. He says he will take an un- dergraduate nurse, and one of the pupils is detailed to him at about half the graduates fee. the money going to the hospital. Now if this work lasted q few days, even week, it might be practical experience for the student. She would learn something of that par tfcnlar type of disease. But the case may go on for weeks or months, and the nurse is gaining nothing.
 Besides too long hours and too flexible system of instruction in train ing schools, pupil nurses have had to put up with bad rooming conditions In one hospital here an unused ward Is fitted as dormitory for the pupils. In another school the students live in houses across the street from the hos pital, four or five girls in room. The desirable standard for nurses quarters is a comfortable residence well lighted and heated and separate from the hos pital, with single rooms for the stu dents.
 Hospitals are having to meet higher standards because they can no longer overlook the fact that young women are more cautious about starting upon a career now than they once were. No igirl who enters a hospital with any l understanding of the work expects to have an easy time but she does ex- pect and demand broad course of training under livable conditions.
 Girl Has Many Chances
 There are so many other vacations
 open to the high school girl graduate now that she no longer takes up nurs-
 ing as the alternative of a life of teach
 ing school. That is the main reason
 why the army of nurses has dwindled Business, law, and other professions ar,
 offering big rewards. while the hospi
 tals have gone on complacently think
 ing that the great opportunity for ser
 vice through nursing would continue a
 sure an attraction as ever.
 Most women who take up nursing a a profession are impressed by the pos abilities of the work, but nowadays , girl who is interested in this kind Q
 socal service is generally intereste
 enough to find out exactly what sh s will get by her course of training Flo
 instance, there are fewer girls enterin , i those hospitals, sanatoria and privat
 hospitals that are not able to registe - their graduates. Not to be registered i the state means that the graduate wit f her two or three years of training can l not become a member of the Red Cros e nursing association. an army or nav a nurse, nor would she be admitted as
 staff nurse in most hospitals of recog :. pized standing.
 n Training school standards are risin
 and so are the standards for nurse
 At one time girls just out of gramms e school were in a. great many hospital
 admitted as probationers. The tender l. ley now is to demand a high school q e plona and to make the nurses trainin
 approximate a college or normal scho |, course with E. $. degree. Over U colleges now maintain schools of nurs
 ing, usually giving five year cours e The army also has an excellent trair r ing school where a three year course n given.
 Nurses-really trained nurses-ar
 going to be needed in everincreasin
 numbers as we aim at higher star t dards of health and sanitation. Rigl
 now. more public health nurses al
 needed for child welfare work. visitir
 nurse associations, and medical soci . service departments. Graduate nurs
 for permanent hospital staffs are scar Hone reason why the student nurse h; l had less time for study during her ho 1 pital training. The army is conductir ' it's own campaign for more student ,r Nurses for home duty and for mission ~ cry work are also scarce. And yet the - branches offer a more varied or mo