To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total national defense, a call has been issued for 50,000 well qualified young women to enroll in the nation's schools of nursing this year. Shown above is an attractive student nurse, typical of the thousands of young women who yearly

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

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

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. 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

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

A thrilling experience for student nurses is the first assignment to the operating room. Student nurse Frances Bullock (left) hands instruments to a surgeon during an operation

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

Student nurse, Frances Bullock adjusts an eye shield for a post-operative patient after the dressing has been changed. Thousands of additional young women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five must be recruited this year to relieve the storage of graduate trained nurses