Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 46 | Will Our Leisure Class Women Solve Problem of Getting Enough Nurses?

i 1 Win Will r Our Leisure Class Women en Solve i Problem iem of Getting Enough Nurses j 1 w i tt t s. s L sf q x aa f t. t 4 Jf S i. A n x x v t. t I I I Wy w I v I i Ii I c l r I 9 a aZ Z i Ma l ix i d Y y Y i I i J r lk f u 4 uJ J Y a t w i or f 1 I j I I Ss Above Above American n Red Cross nurs nurses s' s tf t i feeding hungry refugees at MIl Milan Italy r Below Miss Below Miss Jane A. A Delano left and andRed andl l Red Cross worker using electrical machine machine ma ma- I IRed a chine for cutting cloth Into bandages Special Dispatch WASHINGTON SHI Ma May Ia o The J.-The The United Stales State needs this year ear 2000 nurl nurses es to toI I care for the Americans who arcI are arc I under arms and the millions who arc are preparing to take up arms The country Is s face to face with the knowledge that present methods of or training and recruiting nurses Is la Ina equate e- e quate There are now Red Cross Cros nurses In the arm army and na navy corps Of or these 2000 are already in France Franco Others arc are arcIn arcin in Ital Italy Greece Palestine They arc are caring for the civilians who are war-hit war as well wen as for Cor the men who 10 come back bleeding and dismembered from battle Surgeon General Gorgas Gore of the arm army has Issued a a. call to the New York count county county coun coun- t ty chapter of or the Red Cross for nurses by br the first of or June Tune Red Cro Cross chapters all aU over the country countr are callIn callIng calling call- call Ing In- for smaller numbers of or nurses and the restrictions have been lowered to permit women over 10 40 0 to enlist and girls as young roune- as 21 1 WHAT IS A NURSE What docs does it mean to be a Red Cross nurse It means to meet the standards standard of or enrollment and to be subject to call tl to toan an any duty The Red Cross nursing service Is the reserve of the United States Slates arm army and na navy corps When a Red Cross nurse Is called Into tho army or nat mw navy corps she receives the pa pay and maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- provided pro b by that corps Just jut as a soldier She wears on her collar the brass letter U aU S S. S and ceases eS to be he under the Jurisdiction of the Red Cross She is entitled to the same war riU In Insurance insurance In- In that enlisted men ma may get s-et She serves the colors directly and shares the fortunes and the risks of war The surgeon eon generals general's present plans call for Cor the setting up of beds In France In this country countr there are arc al alread already already al- al read ready beds If Ir the United Sta States tes puts puts' men in the field In addition addition addition addi addi- tion to the now under arms an another another another an- an other beds will be needed This will mean more beds than there are are arc In Inthe Inthe Inthe the established hospitals of this country countr for the care Caro of or the C civilian sick In peace times A recent report Issued on the nursing situation b bv by the public health committee of the New ew York Academy of or Medicine says sars in part SHORTAGE ALREADY APPARENT A shortage of nurses has alread already be become become become be- be come apparent In the hospitals particularly particularly In the smaller ones and In private practice L Letters from all parts of or the ithe- I country tell the same story ston The flow of or nurses from rom civil to military hospitals will continue and should be encouraged but tr try as we may the stream will di diminish diminish di- di minish and the needs of or the army cannot cannot cannot can can- not be filled In this way The maximum annual output of nurses I as the schools are arc toda today will bo ho graduates according to CI figures res compiled complied I b by the Red Cross Th The arm army may succeed suc- suc ce cc d in getting third one-third of these these these-a a sadly Inadequate number SUC-j SUC Some of the proposed cures for or the situation have been en tried trier One Is the general appeal al to tho the girls of the n nation I to enroll e In nursing schools school This appeal has haM been made and remade but the reI results results re re- suits have c bel ben been n un unsatisfactory I A su suggestion estion which has bc been n made but l I pot not tri tried d I Is the HIP addition to the army staffs of practical l nurses to serve enc as Lw l and thus tr free e trained nur nurl nurses s of or tho the chores which are burdensome an ando and do not require th lr expertness The ar argument argument argument ar- ar a against this plan Is the demoralizing demoralizing demor demor- effect it might have on nursing standards Nt after the war These practical practical UCal nurses nurs's who had served in army hospitals would mal make c claims that drat they w were re as capable as the trained nurs nurses s when they returned to civil life It Is feared ARMY TRAINING IMPRACTICABLE The su suggestion has been made that the arm army establish huge hug nurses' nurses training schools similar to th the cantonments at which the arm army men n are arc trained Here again arises the tho bugaboo of or fault faulty trainIng training train train- In Ing and a reduction of or nursing stan standards ards Another suggestion which ma may be the I saving ln a HUb suggestion estion and the means of getting getting get s-ct- I tin ting women enough h to join th the Jane A. A I and other American women who are nt at the front is s the tho suggestion su of Dr S S. S S S. Goldwater chairman of or the war ar I service committee of the tho American hospital Hospital Hospital Hos Hos- pital association and chairman of the hospitals committee general en ral medical board council of or national defense He suggests an arm army of or nursing aids ald recruited from the ranks of ot the tho leisure class women of or America women America women who will gratuitously serve ene where anti and how they can with no Idea of or ever cr taking up nursing after the war Dr Goldwater points out that it Is that class of or Englishwomen Englishwomen Eng Eng- who are solving the same for the British