Nurse training. With migration of large numbers of people to new communities, epidemics are a latent possiblity. In New York City's School of Nursing Residence, advanced students give the Schick and Dick test (for Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever, respectively) to the probationers. By learning to protec

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

Nurse training. Student nurses, like millions of other United States citizens, are today taking Red Cross First Aid courses, but with a difference. These students of nursing are taught not only to give first aid in case of air raids or other war or peacetime emergencies, but also how to deal with am

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. A student nurse (right) assists the doctor with a lumbar puncture, an important diagnostic procedure for back diseases or injuries. The student must sterilize needles and manometer, get the patient into correct position, prepare the skin area which will be punctured, and take charge

Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania 8b07710v

First-year students practice various sick-room techniques 8b08219v

A student nurse right instructs a patient 8b08213v

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