Evening star., 1921-05-08
PUPIL NURSES NEED
OF D. C. HOSPITAL
Recruiting Campaign Also to
Encourage Young Women
to Enter Profession.

A campaign to recruit pfpil nurses
for local hospitals will begin next
Thursday and will end May IS. This
intensive effort has been arranged
through the cooperation of Mrs. +. q.
Fournier. president of the League OF
Nursing Education of the District of
Columbia, the superintendent of all
the local accredited schools of nursing
and the District of Columbia Chapter
of the Red Cross.
A convOcation of all student nurses
will inaugurate the campaign. to be
held in the Central High School at
Sis o'clock. May II. The general pub
lie is invited, especially college and
high school girls. Miss Georgia Nevins
will preside as chairman. and among
the speakers Will be Maj. Julia slim
son. superintendent of the Army Nurse
Corps and dean of the Army School
of Nursing; DR.. William A. White,
| superintendent of st. EliZabeth'S Hos
pital; Miss Mabel T. Boardman of the
American Red Cross. and Miss f.. +.
| Pearce of New York.
Purpose of the Campaign.
| The object of the campaign is to
| bring forCibly to the attention of the
| public the pressing demand for nurses
| in all departm entS of nursing service
| in the District of Columbia. and the
| est of young women to enter this pro-
| fesSion. At the various meetings
| which will be held prominent speak
| ers will explain the advantages and
| opportunities for young women in the
trained nurse profession. The dates
of the meetings and names of speak
erS will be announced later.
! The drive has been indOrsed by
Miss Clara D. Noyes. American Red
| Cross, and the board of education and
other official associations The head
| quarters recruiting station will be
opened Thursday at the District Red
| Cross Chapter, 16 Jackson place, with
| Miss Georgia NevinS, formerly sup
erintendent of the Garfield Hospital
Training School. in charge. Other sta
! tions will be opened later.
| Among those interested in this
| movement are: Mrs. Simon Wolf
president of Garfield Hospital: Mrs.
| II. B. Learned, president of Columbia
| Training School; Mrs. James Carol
! Frazier. Mrs. Isaac Cans, Georgetown
University Hospital; Miss Julia
| Strong. and Miss Lucy Minnegerode
superintendent of the nursing corps
public health service.
| Statement by Miss Noyes.
Surely no greater opportunity
| exists for the young worker of today
| than that to be found through the
| profession of nursing" said Miss Clara
d. Noyes, director of the American
! Red Cross nursing service and presi- =
| uSiAl VI tilC faIilciiC NURSES ASSOcld-
| ton. yesterday.
| THE chief obstacle to the adoption
| of that career is not so much the
arduous duties of the nursing pro-
fession. but the policy of the schools
| OF nursing Miss Noyes pointed out
Hand in hand with the recruiting
OF student nurses must proceed the
education of the public to it's re-
Isponsibility for providing good schools
OF nursing. That a school should be
so dependent on a hospital that its
students must serve virtually as un-
paid and hard worked employees of
the latter institution is a policy dis
astrous in its effects on pupil nurse
enrolment:
our schools of nursing should be
endowed, not only in the literal sense
but also with the dignity and prestige
that is associated with any other in
stitutlon of learning.
Il can see ahead only grave and
far-reaching menace to our national
well being unless the supply of pupil
nurses is increased Systematically and
continuously. Nurses are absolutely
Indispensable in the scheme of human
affairs. No vocation is richer in re-
wards, material and spiritual"