The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 4

ee te “| normal demands of private and | public health service; that in a national epidemic this nurse ahort- age would cause great suffering = Woas of life—and did have such from a New York ho: pital “Women’s Dresses the Whole of Mankind. has written for point of view. course, she gives a picture auppenta changes that might be FIRST INSTALMENT. A SHORTAGE IN NURSES? _ WHY DO WOMEN HESITATE TO ENTER A NOBLE PROFESSION? ‘A Graduate Nurse Answers the Questions by | Giving Sordid Details of the Intolerable Con- | ditions Surrounding the ‘“‘Probationer”’ Whose Sole Ambition Is to Beriefit The Evening World a acries of articles, of which the first is printed to-day, on the | nurie shortage from the nurse's Btill enthusiastic about her chosen work, but freak from contact with what she be- lirves to be the winecessary hard- ships and injustice of the training vivid “inside” of the conditions which discourage and debar girls from the nursing profession, and she certain simple, practical made, protationer, keen to do my part in the work of the word which wad then crying out for nurses and more nurses to relleve the terrible uffer- ing that war wae bringing to men of al) nations. school department at that time was that | was to take a three years’ course, receive tuition, board and lodging free; two afternoons a week off duty, two hours off cach day, not including meals, and give a ten-hour training. Any days when I was obliged to be absent on account of illness or fot any other reason were to be added to the course after gradu- ation. This compact I bave kept, but it is Hosssee the patuorities have not met 8 dinary heal writing this taeticl’ with the earnest somewhere to relieve the situation and throw open the doors of this wonderful profession to those young women who would gladly undertake It if they, could be aseured that they could make good and yet retain thei own health, without which ead not hope to be of use to ives or others. THE WOMAN'S AMBITIONS AND years of training, who OPPENHEIM. GLUNS & © 34th Street—New York Cougar) hospitals, pudlic oft- HER AWAKENING oale other authoritative . @ recan early days when, sources. Showing How Agreements] pruationer, 1 entered upon my firs feat Bird &. Goler, Commissioner of | With Student Nurses Are | 20% in Mr tesin, inthis great city oS. Public Welfare in New York, is Not Li Up To. it all seemed so new and st yet ‘eno of the latest to call ved Up {fasced complacently and proudly * my own unlivem end eaviously 6Ad —S peranggeaa 1 anaes By a Graduate Nurse. aeiny om AP tha white-onnea wk dechores, oe Three years ago f entered one of! who trod the halls with free, Slastic In the public health field alone | ing nospitals of New York City as a step and heads erect. What they had Shere ts @ calj for 50,000 nurses a= ao apreed the gospel of cleanliness |” ead hygicne im all parts of the spe raters tn ot parts of we | YOU CAN LEARN MORE Saure on the ft the ee, we deus | from a teapot test of candidates the information that there are vacancies and the world has need of all the young women who hove nursing services to offer.” Why is there a nurse shortage? 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The bap- piness of a “probe"—short for “pro- bationer” or pupil nurse—depends ‘The agreement with the training) largely upon her head nurse, whon in pDiish, ere is reallly cae sree fot inetant “annihilas es 80 jamor or a stray wisp service In return for the three years’! of hi feel: yet | in the day of a “probe,” A ten-hour day does not seem long, st the ten hours are spent wholly on one’s feet, unceasingly, un- Caer 1 hompttain: 1 belleve, are proper rest at night, ‘miooet any sit in training can stand the work, but it hope that it will awaken somebody | jy sth longer, of overtime at night—that ts i ade that breaks the camel's bac! 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