Some of the Lessons of The Late War and Their Bearing Upon Trained Nursing

The Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses of the United States and Canada, including 2,000 graduates of twenty-four training schools, offer their services for any work which the Medical Department of the army may demand of them, in connection with the war with Spain. When the possibilities of war menaced the nation, individual nurses expressed their willingness to give their services in the military hospitals, and when war was actually declared, the number of volunteers was greatly increased. The ordinary method would be to provide that the nurses should be selected by the Surgeon General of the Army. The views of the chiefs of the large training schools for women nurses, and of the ladies who are especially interested in the movement, is that it is a matter of very great importance to select proper women for the first appointments as nurses in the army service, under this or any other bill.