Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 193, Hammond, Lake County, 8 February 1918 — Page 6

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and Expert Training Required to Equip Women for War Hospital Service,

The thought of tb Retf Cross rrjr c1!b up a picture o' self posspss'on nd efliclmrj-. We se her In her white uniform passtng from ove hospital bed to jothr, combmins; tenderness with skill In re'feving suffpring. We tbiofc of her always as a flnlsh4 prodoct, perfectly eqniprwnl and trained to meet -mergenry, maintaining her poise and resourcefulness under the wst trying c!rcnm5tance.. It does nt o"rur to us that her poise and efficiency are the result of years of trarnic?. We seldom think of the Red Cross nurse ss anyrbins hut a Red Cross enrse. The sacriflees stie has made, the hardships she has undergone -while acquiring ability as a war nnrs ar real assets to her, but fio cot form part of our judgment t her work. How is the Fd Cros tnirse made? kro her skill is not the result of a "short course. s-hoil of nursincr." We kr siio is nr :i .i " r olfipp-? product, whose natural instinct for

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At Least Two Years of Hard Work ! "mothering" and ability to reiiere suf-:

icrmj; nave made her what she is.

We know that she is wot a mail order prodwrt of a oorretpondeoce school. I-et us examine the process that turns ont this f nished product of skill, dependability and ensibiHty. Tet us consider the "raw material" as it went into the hospital school for nurses and tlie work required to transform it into the Rod Cross nurse of today, the light of servioe shining In her eyes, her whole being responding to the call of patriotism. The Red Cross nwrse. was at one time a schoolgirl, just like thoojrands of pchooheirls who today art looking to grow up so they may do their part in th world's work. She was $ high school jrraduste, confronted with the necessity for earning her living or else eager to do something for humanity and for hcrse'f. She gained the consent of her parents by showing them the tremendous advances that have been mad reowtly In Bursing education and set out to discoTer what she must do to heooTTve a rurse. She was wise. Sb got rn tonch with the nursing association of ber state and sought advice. Sh was to'd to sf.ir-ct a school for nurses in whi'ri !h rmirsc of study and pract.i'-ai work

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No 1. Whll the Practical Side of Nursing Is Emphasized in Atl the Training, the Theory of Nursing Is Taught In the Class Room. No. 2. Making a Bed for a Sfck Civilian Is Excellent Training for One Who Would Serve a Wounded Soldier. No, S. The Red Croe Is the Motorized Humanitarian Impulses ef the Ceuntry Ita Corps ef Nurses Is a Trained Army for the Arievlatrons of Human Suffering. No. 4. Nurses' Homes Provide Cheerfol Homelike Surroundings for the Pupil Nurses snd Express the Tra.nlng School's Solicitude for the Pupils'. Welfare. No. 5 A Red Cross Nurse the Finished Product of Hoepital Training and Discipline.

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years, as it doe Id the majority of accept an applicant for war nunring good schools. She learned that the whose training is not based n these four pillars of nursing are medical j four pillars of nursing, work, surgical work, th care of babies j The Rod Cross does not limit Its and young children and the care of : nursing work to army service.. It is

health of the families of our soldiers

mm wHiiors. it is lmponanr, tneretore, that Red Crn;s nunc is trained to answer any rail and to pass readily froru one branrh of serrtce to another. If she ts properly diped the pros

pective pupil will be told to select a

training school connects with a hospital, in wi!li the hours of duty are reasonable, where care is tsken of the

rrses' health and time and opportunity allowed for recreation. The hospital most prirtde good opportunity for training In the male branches of nursing and nrost b supplied with n giod tetichln sta. Tb.o

mothers. . I called npon at homo and abroad for ; Red (Vnss will not accept a candidate

It seems a far cry from the rar f public heah work. It is caring for who his not had acina! experience in

of hnhies nTid mothers1 to nursing mother and children n we'! as so! wo'iuded soi'iiors. bur the pupil nurs riiers in war stri'-ken ii;ritries. A:

is !..it 'he Red Cros-s wiii rot ; home its nurses arc safeguarding the

a hosptrn; wttn at lens' .) pens and in wlilili s'ijUppis are taught to nurse men as weli as women.

Iet us now suppose tha girl has chosen her school for nurses. Her trunk is packed with her simple, almost soldierly, equipment, and she Is on the threshold of her earner. One wonder after nnorher unfolds itself In the hospital. The ordrliness and quiet of the piace. impress ber. She marvels at its system and the well oiled machinery which keeps it going. The thought that she is a port of this system brings In turn feeilngs of awe and interest. In ber classroom she finds the answer to many of the questions which reT1 nr 5 tb wds of the h.-p:tal to mfcich ;he 8 .ntroduced. In the wardj she finds practical demonstration? to hc'r her tinders and tl.e theory ic: Krowi-vlge

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The sight of pain is at first hard o bear. As the story e huaran misery, misdeeds and suffering unfolds s shrirks from the knowledge of it. Bnt the thought that she can help to re Here this suffering, and perhaps later in life to prerent such suffering, belr.to strengthen her. In the nurse's home she spends delightful evenings with her friends Her days off gtre her time for rfst. and recreation. Perhaps she is a country girl studying In a big city hospital, snd in her spare times she can amuse herself in sightseeing. As th probation period passes sn reaiir-es that nursing is not only a profession, but an art. She formerly envied the surgeon's skill end the doo-

j tor's power to relieve pain. "Now sh'j finds that, though the surgeon n,s.y ' perform a wonderful operation and tu-i i dctor diagnose and prescribe skj .'-

fully, their work is not complete wv:.out hers. She shares ha their art of nirtng. She must care for the patient during !he critical period after an oj -

j eratlon. She must give the medicine J the doctor prescrib. ; Sb, studies her patients car full', j Not an expression, posture, moemen i hut has its meaning for ber. She (learns the simple nurssng arts of lift.-

ing the sick, drewicg their wounds.

making their beds and feeding thf-n. Her eyes become accustomed to sigr.s of distress, and no mute message of appeal goes unrecognised. The wonder of life irofol'ja before lier eyes. The presence of death hovers near, and she enters into the fight against it with all her slreDg':i. unafraid and prepared. Her first operation is a "nesrer to he forgotten" event in her life. As she stands in the operating room taking her part in the drama a sense of grave responsibility and awe overcomes hr, and she rededicates herself to the life work she has chosen. , Thus she goes through the four periods of training from probationer to junior and from senior to graduate, and finally the day of her graduation arrives. She goes forth from um ho, pital with her diploma, after sh ha taken the state examination and can add the letters R K. (Registered Nurse) to her nae. SKe may not enter her country's Tjorvico at once, but may TwdertaV" private, public health or Institutional nursing, thus gaming freeh experience and fitting herself for her calling as a war nurse. The Red Cross Jealously gatarda th lives of th soldiers entrusted to its care, and none but th most carefully trained, devoted and capable nurses are sllowed within Its ranks. No nurse is being sent abroad today who cannot justify her existence on the other side by at least ten hours of hard work. It is well, therefore, for those young women who wish to help their country in this hour of peril to realize that the highest service they can render Is to enter a schcol for nurses and begin thlr training at once. They will ;v.rry rc.euse Tomen with training and experience for war service and h-!o to fill the ranks of te great nursinc arriv. upon which the country

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SMflidaLy9 February 10th" to Doctors

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