Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse fsa8e04913u crop

Nursing School

A modern Florence Nightingale, Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is one of America's army of nurses whose devotion to country comes before regard for personal comfort and security. In ice-bound outposts and in tropical southern isles, wherever the stars and st

Washington, D.C. Now a full-fledged graduate nurse, Second Lieutenant Frances Bullock has entered Walter Reed Hospital where she will contribute towards the winning of the war by nursing America's wounded

Nurse training. Fresh from college, twenty-year-old Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, arrives at the School of Nursing residence in New York City, which will be her home until she becomes an Army or Navy nurse. Because of her college degree, Susan will be required to spend only twenty-seven mont

High point in the student nurse's career is the meaningful "capping" ceremony which takes place after students have completed the preliminary portion of their training. Here, Frances Bullock, nineteen-year-old student nurse, receives her cap

Nurse training. A graduate nurse (right) watches student Susan Petty prepare a hypodermic for a patient. Strict adherence to doctors' orders is something every probationer must learn Creator(s): Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.

Nurse training. Student nurses spend a great deal of time in classrooms, as well as in practice in the wards. Many of the students entering schools of nursing today hope to serve in the Army or the Navy Nurse Corps if the war continues until they graduate; but they realize that they are giving war s