Evening star., 1943-05-09
FuN-7ime Jobs During Day Fail to Deter
Nurse$ Aides From 7ackling Night Tasks
Many Even Find
Hospital Service
Is Relaxation
By Betty Smith.

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If you think you haven't got
time to take the nurses aide
course or serve the required
hours in a local hospital after
ward. you ought to know about
the $50 Woodworking nurses
aides who have full-time jobs by
days and are nurses aides at
night.
They even find-these busy
working women-that their hos
pital work is such far cry from
their of1ice jobs that 1t relaxes
them rather than tires them.
Over at GARFIELD Hospital
there's a group of night working
nurses aides that would be hard
to beat for efficient and conscien-
tious work anywhere.
Captain is Mrs. Rose McBryde,
who has a full time and impor-
tant job with the National Geo.
graphic Society by day. The Nc
Brydes used to live in the coun-
try and commuted to work every
day-Mr. McBryde to his Office
the's in the construction busi-
ness) and Mrs. McBryde to the
National Geographic job. But
this became increasingly difficult,
so now they've taken small
apartment in town for the dura-
ton. And several nights a week
Mrs. McBryde works four hours
at stretch at Garfield.
Nurses aide requirements are
that each night aide work for at
least three hours, but most Of
them get to the hospital by
O'Clock and seldom stop before 10.
A great deal of the credit for
the good work of the night unit
OF nurses aides in Washington
should go to Mrs. George McGee-
nee, says the Red Gross. 1t is
Mrs. McGeeHee, a professional
nurse, who trains all the nurses
aides who work at night in the
District Of Columbia. She is a
top-notch nurse herself, and is
wonderful in the supervision work
she's doing now.
Every Tuesday and Friday
night at Garfield the nurses
aides assist the doctors with the
sociological tests in the eXamina-
ton of selective service draftees.
They help, too, with the civilian
defense blood donors, job here
tofore done by graduate nurses
now handled by the aides.
A busy place by day. hospital
is even buster at night. And the
hourse from to 10 O'Clock are
perhaps the most rushed of all.
1t is then patients must be
bathed, fed and made comfort
able for the night. Imagine what
help these nurses aides are
proving to Washingtons over
crowded hospitals with their
acute shortage of medical per-
sonnel just now. >.
Another hospital where nurses
aides serve nightly is Emer-
gency. Here Miss Ruth Russell
is captain, and a darn good one,
says the hospital, Despite her
full-time job at the State De-
partment. Miss Russell has more
than 800 hours of volunteer
nurses aide work to her credit.
At Georgetown Hospital Miss
Mary Hurley is captain. BY day
Miss Hurley has a Government
job and full-time one it is, too.
One of her most faithful workers
is Miss Mary Donovan, who is
with the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers.
Then there is Miss Mildred
Wharton, who is assistant captain
at Garfield. and her daytime Job
is with the National Education
Association.
Miss Aileen Allen is another
faithful aide at Garfield, who
works by day for the American
Security Il Trust Co. Miss Ada
Miller will be leaving her nurses
aide work at Garfield when her
job with the co-ordinator O;
Inter-American affairs takes her
to Venezuela. But she won't give
up the work. because she became
so interested in it that she plans
to start nurses aide unit in
Venezuela.
Most amazing record of any
night nurses aide is that of Mrs.
Montana Zbinden Of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. She does
night duty at Emergency Hos
pital, and in nine months has
over 400 hours of work to her
credit.