Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-18 | Page 16 | Nurses Training Course Planned

NURSES' TRAINING COURSE PLANNED If necessary details can be worked out within the next ten days, the University of Utah will offer to women registrants a war service course which- will embrace all lines of elementary nurses' trainingr according to Professor O. J. P. Widtsoe, head of the department of English of the University. This action was decided upon in response to an appeal sent out by the American Council of Fducation recently, asking that in all colleges where possible and practicable a pre-nursing course be offered which will serve to train thousands thou-sands of women for this war service so vitally needed now and a demand for which may be expected to become enormous enor-mous as more American forces are hurled into the world struggle. President John A. Widtsoe of the university wired Robert L. Kelly, campaign director of the American Amer-ican Council of i Education, Washington. D. C, yesterday, acknowledging the ap-peal ap-peal and stating that the University of Utah is ready to inaugurate such course immediately upon receipt of instructions for orga nizing. As it is now understood at the university, uni-versity, this new course will afford the young women of America the opportunity opportu-nity to train themselves for a most "vital service necessary in a successful prosecution prose-cution of the war. It is a parallel of t hfi llilininc nf -i-rmno. , 1., t .. dents army training corps, the oniv requirements re-quirements being a high school graduation gradua-tion or its equivalent; twenty years is a. minimum age. and one must be of excellent excel-lent pnysical health. The courses to be offered of-fered will be held up to the usu;l college col-lege standard of work. Some of the subjects sub-jects offered are: Anatomy and physiology, physi-ology, hygiene and sanitation, materia medica, sociology- of nursing, history and ethics of nursing, eiementarv nursing economics, special lectures, etc Further information regarding this course will bt- gladly given at the university.