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

Given an hour's rest between rounds, Susan Petty, student nurse 8b07886v

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

At the ping pong table in the game room, Susan Petty, student nurse 8b07884v

In these busy days, student nurses themselves must often instruct probationers 8b08206v

Nurse training. Just as they take biology and chemistry, students of nursing "take babies" as the young nurses say. Here Susan learns how to give a baby one of his first meals Creator(s): Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.

Attending a tracheotomy case is part of the training 8b07789v

A moment's pause in a full day, as graduate student nurses relax 8b08221v