The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-22
NEW NURSE CORPS
SEEKS APPLICANTS
Information May Be OBJ
tanned AT James Walker
Memorial Hospital

Eligible young women who wish
to enroll in the United States Cadet
Nurse Corps may obtain complete
information at the James Walker
Memorial hospital, Miss Augusta
Futchs, chairman Of county Nurs-
ing Council of War, said Saturday.
An act passed by the 18th Con-
gress of the United States gives
eligible young women who wish
to serve their country and at the
same time prepare for an interest
ing lifetime profession an oppor-
tunity to do SO at no expense to
themselves. All of the expenses of
the training period will be paid
by the government, including tut
ton, indoor uniforms, books, all
fees, and an attractive outdoor
uniform for street wear.
In addition to this the student
will be given an allowance of SIS
per month for the first nine months
(the Pre-Cadet period, $40 per
month for the next twenty-one
months (Junior Cadet period).
During this time she will complete
the necessary class work and get
experience in the care of medical,
surgical, obstetric and pediatric
patients in the home hospital. She
may then upon her request be as
signed to service in a military or
other governmental hospital; or if
she prefers, she may remain in
the home hospital for the Senior
Cadet period of six months which
will complete her three-years' nurs-
ing course. Wherever the nurse is
placed for the Senior Cadet period,
the employing institution will pay
her $50 per month and furnish full
maintenance for her. After the Ca
Diet period, the nurse will be ready
for State Board examinations for
nurses and will register just as
other nurses do after which time
she will be ready for assignment
to the Army and Navy Nurse Corps
if she so desires.
This Act was passed by the con-
gress as a wartime measure, and
each student who is enrolled in the
Corps will be required to sign a
statement that she will stay in
nursing for the duration of the war
if she is physically able to do so.
If the student is under twenty-one
years of age, the parent or legal
guardian must also sign the state
ment for applicant for membership
in the Corps. Marriage Of the stu
dent is not prohibited by the pro-
visions of the Act. A member OF
the Corps will have her education
paid for even if the war should end,
as the Act provides that those who
are enrolled 80 days prior to the
time the war ends will be carried
on through the three years on the
same basis.
Eligible young women who wish
to enroll in this corps may do so
and should apply to the nursing
school of their choice for adn1s-
sion. They should ask the director
of the nursing school whether or
not her school will become a par
ticipating one. .
It is not. compulsory for a young
woman who desires to become a
nurse to enroll in the U. S. Cadet
Nurse Corps. She may still pay
her own expenses and enter the
hospital school of her choice by
applying to the director OF the
school for application forms.
Applicants to be eligible TO enter
accredited nursing schools in North
Carolina:
l. Must be graduates Of accredlt-
ed high schools and should have
at least an average of G or 80 per
cent.
2. Must be at least II IL years
old when the class is admitted to
the nursing school.
8 Must be of good moral char
acter.
4. Must be in good physical con-
dition.