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    "ocrText": "- -6 -\ngovernment.\nadequate nursing organization for the Red Cross, Nurses all over\nthe country, membors of the Amerioen Federation had long cherished\nthe hope of affiliation with the Red Cross and the War Department\nin the establishment and maintenance of an adequate nursing reserve\navailable for immediate service in time of flood, fire, epidemic and\nshould the need ever arise, war. In 1909 through the clear vision\nand enthusiasm of Miss Mabel Boardman of the Red Cross and Mrs. Isabel\nA\nHampton Robb, representing the nursing profession, the American Federa-\ntion of Nurses agreed to cooperate with the American Red Cross in\nbuilding up a Red Cross Nursing Service and the Superintendent of the\nArmy Nurse Corps was elected Chairman of the first National Committee.\nHer duties began in a dusty little room in the War\na\nDepartment. This soon became favorite with the physicians who\nW\nwere then reorganizing the Medical Department. They liked to stroll\n0\nin and talk to \"the General\" or \"Sister Jane\" as they called her.\nNaturally quick at repartie, she keenly relished teasing them. Backed\nby their whole-hearted cooperation and that of the Red Cross and the\nnurses of the country, she helped to bring about fundamental changes\nin the Army Nurse Corps, - better pay, more comfortable quarters,\nlaundry of uniforms, accumulated leave and the thousand one \"little\nthings that count.'\nShe resigned in 1912 from the Army Nurse Corps to\ndevote her entire time to the Red Cross. She and her &ommittee then\nset about establishing the underlying principles of the Nursing\nService. A high professional standing was their first prereguesite\nfor enrollment. Their desire that this service should not only have\na large number of nurses available for duty, but also that these"
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