Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1918 — Public Is Invited to Aid Campaign to Find Needed Nurses for War Work [ARTICLE]

Public Is Invited to Aid Campaign to Find Needed Nurses for War Work

By VERNON J. LEROY.

Chicago

The graduate nurses of America are coming to the aid of army and navy, in response to the call of Surgeons General Gorgas and Braisted. Twenty-five a day are enrolling in Chicago alone, and proportionate numbers in other centers. In addition, letters are pouring in from all points asking hpw to proceed. The nurses themselves will enlist. Getting them is the easiest part of the campaign. Another problem is to get young women to enter training schools to prepare themselves to fill the places left vacant by nurses going into service. It is proposed to open training schools for nurses at various army camps where the students will have ample experience. Later they will ,be sent to civil hospitals for graduation. The greatest task of all is to make the public understand that its part in the nurses’ campaign is very important. The public must supply these student nurses —they are the sisters and daughters of the people. The public must also learn to get along with less nursing, to let just as many nurses as possible go into service or into the hospitals where they are vitally necessary. Army and navy, government officers and the heads of nursing bureaus all are calling on the people to back up the Red Cross and help to enroll the 25,000 nurses which must be had this year for our fighting men; and to build up a reserve for the other thousands that nfust be had for the years of war which may yet face us.