Letter from the Director of the Nursing Service to Agnes von Kurowsky

November 2, 1922. 17500 Miss Agnes H. vonKurowsky, 426 East 26th Street, New York City. My dear Miss vonKurowsky: Your application for assignment to Greece has just been received. So far no additional requests have reached us. We are very glad, however, to place your name on file, but I doubt if we send very many nurses, if any, to that country as we have drawn together a few of the nurses who were scattered over Europe at that point, and are inclined to feel that they will be adequate, together with those who have been assigned from the Near Fast, to handle the situation. However, there are one or two other opportuni- ties for which you might qualify. We are now in need of an operating- room nurse at Warsaw, Poland, Would you be interested in this? The fact that you speak French and German would make you very valuable for that post, as all the educated Poles speak French and it seems quite essential that a nurse who undertakes a position of this nature should be able to discuss the technique, etc, with the surgeons through a common language and not an interpreter. We are also looking around for an Assistant for the new school in Sofia, Bulgaria. Your experience as Assistent Night Supervisor, and Director of Probationers at the Long Island Hospital might qualify you for this work. Both positions are pioneer in their nature. Miss Helen Bridge is in charge of the School at Varsaw, where she is assisted by quite a staff of American nurses. It is a modern uptodate school, but lacks so far @perating+room exper- ience for the students because that department has so far been entirely managed by doctors assisted by felchers, or orderlies, regardless of the character of the case or the sex of the patient. Naturally, Miss Bridge cannot send her student nurses into an operating-room under these conditions. Please let me hear from you regarding these two positions. Yours very sincerely, N-k Director - Nursing Service.