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    "ocrText": "1/4/18\nD MR 11\nTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS\nNURSING SERVICE\nSubmit an essay on this sheet of paper in your own handwriting of at least 250 words\nanswering the following questions:\nI.\nDescribe the organization of the Nursing Service of the American Red Cross and duties of the National\nCommittee.\n2. Who is responsible for the assignment to duty of Red Cross Nurses and for the selection of Supervising\nNurses? State briefly the requirements for enrollment.\n3.\nHow does response to a call from the Red Cross in time of peace differ from that in time of war? What\nexceptions may be made for Red Cross nurses in time of war, who have been appointed as public\nhealth nurses or assigned to other special duties under the Red Cross?\n4. State the purpose of the Town and Country Nursing Service and the special requirements for Red Cross\nservice as a public health nurse.\n5. What provision has been made for membership of enrolled nurses in the American Red Cross?\n(Read circular of Information for Applicants, A R C 150, before writing essay.)\nIn 1909, the American nurses' Association, voted to affiliate with the the same American the Red\ncross to organize the Red Cross Service nursing appointed Service Lateh This during Committee was compreed year of\non the the enrollment two organizations of Red Cross and nurses its duties The were appointment to establish of\nwas\nState uniform and standards Local Committies for and the over all matters\npertaining under to the the direction nursing of Service the national of the Committee, the Director erectory. the the murging\nService the Director of the Toure and Country.\nDirector of the Begface of the Instruction: are for the assignment\nto duty. of the members of nursing service who may come under\ntheir prefective Bureaus\nhaving of a daily avalage of at least fifty patients Applicants states mulf\na school for nurses giving at least a two years course training be at hospital least\nThe requirements for enrollment are that an applicant must in be a a graduate\ntwenty three years and not over forcetty years of age. In where be registration\nis provided for by law an applicant to be eligible for enrollment the must American registered nurses\nAssociation and endorsed by the (Executive committee or by at least officers of such\nHn applicant must be a member of an organization affiliated with two\norganization School from which she graduated or one under whom she trained and Her endorsed application by at\nShe must aleq be endorsed by the present superintendent of the craining\nmust the approved by the Local Committee on Red Cross nursing to washington\nleast two me decision mber resto of the mth Local the committee national Cross nurbing\nThe\nfinal\nservice. committee Application or a member. blanks designated must be endorsed by her by the Chairman of the national"
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