3. Prohibition against discrimination with respect to race, color, creed or sex. 4. Administration either wholly or in part through some Federal agency, such as the Procurement and Assignment Service of the War Manpower Commission, with proper provision for essential civilian requirements and the educational necessities of the profession, including deferments for teachers, supervisors, certain classes of graduate students and those in essential key positions.

5. Proper credit to the States for voluntary recruitments.

6. Power to grant deferments based on family relationship, with permission granted for voluntary enlistment.

7. A commissioned nurse corps for the Veterans' Administration, with the same provisions applicable to this corps as are applied to the military.

8. Limited service for all women.

AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION

REGISTERED MEN NURSES

According to 1940 United States Population Census, there are 8,169 men nurses (graduates and students) in the United States. On the basis of figures reported in a study of registered men nurses in the United States, conducted by the American Nurses' Association as of January 1943, the number of registered men nurses serving in the armed forces was between 2,000 and 2,500.

The registered men nurses at present in the armed forces are not being used advantageously as they are not given an opportunity to assume duties and responsibilities consonant with their professional training as nurses.

Under the regulations of the Army and the Navy, the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps are confined to registered women nurses so that a registered man nurse on induction into the armed forces has no official status as a registered nurse. He is lost among the total personnel of the armed forces and frequently is assigned to duties that have no relation to the practice of nursing.

Instances can be cited of registered men nurses receiving elementary medical training when they were already thoroughly grounded in such training through their preparation for nursing.

Furthermore, when a registered man nurse is commissioned as an officer, it usually is in a field outside that of nursing.

If recognition were given to the registered man nurse and if he were commissioned as an officer in the field of nursing, he would be of great value and use in. the armed forces.

At present with the great need for registered nurses in the armed forces, it would seem imperative to make the fullest and most advantageous use of the 2,000 or more registered men nurses in the armed forces in the field for which they are trained, that is, nursing.

Registered men nurses would be of particular value in caring for men patients in certain fields of nursing, such as psychiatry. They also could be used in teaching and supervising enlisted men assigned to the care of the injured and sick service

men.

Following are statements of two authorities regarding the need for utilizing the services of men nurses in caring for men patients:

"Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service: We recognize the need for men nurses in psychiatric institutions and for genitourinary nursing for male patients.' '

"Dr. Edward A. Strecker, former president of the American Psychiatric Association: 'Nowhere is the need for well-trained men nurses more pressing than in dealing with psychiatric war casualties in veterans' hospitals. Serious as the situation is now it will undoubtedly grow to greater proportions than anyone is yet ready to handle. Only if a large number of men nurses become available for work with psychiatic patients can we hope for maximum results in restoring many of our veterans to normal living'." is

During the post-war period many problems relating to care of war veterans will arise. Men nurses who have had an opportunity to develop as leaders and teachers during the period of the war will be of great service in helping to meet these problems.

The leaders and teachers among registered men nurses for the post-war period will have to come from the present number of registered men nurses and not from 1 Bulletin, National Nursing Council for War Service, Inc., October 19, 1944. 1a Bulletin, National Nursing Council for War Service, Inc., October 18, 1944.

those at present preparing to be nurses as there has been a great decrease in the number of men students in schools of nursing.

In 1939 a total of 78 schools of nursing, which admitted men students, reported 725 men students, In 1944, 69 of the 78 schools reported only 169 men students.' The other 9 of the 78 schools reported having no men students The 169 students reported for 1944 represents a decrease of 77 percent from the number of men students in 1939 Furthermore, these 69 schools reported they expected to admit only 12 men students in the spring of 1944.

This large decrease in the number of men studens and the further loss of the male teaching personnel has seriously afected the nursing service of hospitals having schools of nursing which admit men SZÁMS

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ssues who, on the day or days Ls Act, has reached the ad de forty-fifth anniversary sys is a graduate registered. son of the United States or in or days is a a graduate of a to apply for examination for tida durse in the jurisdiction in des, is hereby made subject to he land and naval forces of the Service Act of 1940, as amended. sered, professional nurse' shall be when are in official usage and are PRES, possessions, and the District strained nurse, certified nurse, ovided in this Act, and except as to this Act, such registration, Con and deferment of such females) cedures and be subject to the same

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exemptions, rights, penalties, and obligations provided for male registrants by said Act and regulations thereunder."

NOTE. At the meetings of the American Nurses' Association board of directors and conference of members of the advisory council of the American Nurses' Association and State executive and elected secretaries held in Washington, D. C., March 7-8, 1945, it was voted to delete reference to a "graduate of a State accredited school of nursing and eligible to apply for examination for registration as a graduate, registered, professional nurse" and to include only graduate, registered, professional nurses.

Subdivision (a) of section 2 of H. R. 2277 should be amended by adding at the end thereof the following language:

"Quotas of nurses to be inducted for service under this Act shall be determined for each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, and for subdivisions thereof, on the basis of the actual number of nurses in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and the subdivisions thereof, who are liable for such service but who are not deferred after classification, except that credits shall be given in fixing such quotas for residents of such subdivisions who are in the land and naval forces of the United States on the date fixed for determining such quotas. After such quotas are fixed, credits shall be given in filling such quotas for residents of such subdivisions who subsequently become members of such forces. Until the actual numbers necessary for determining the quotas are known, the quotas may be based on estimates, and subsequent adjustments therein shall be made when such actual numbers are known. All computations under this subsection shall be made in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe."

H. R. 2277 should be amended by the deletion of subdivision (b) of section 2 and the last sentence of paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of section 2. These sections provide for the preferential induction of graduates of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps.

H. R. 2277 should be amended by the deletion of the words "Procurement and Assignment Service" in section 2, subsection (c), paragraph (1) (p. 3, lines 10 and 11), and the substitution therefor of the following language: "Nursing Division of the Procurement and Assignment Service of the War Manpower Commission."

Section 3 of H. R. 2277 should be amended by the addition of the following language:

"Each person accepted by and inducted into the armed forces of the United States under the provisions of this Act shall, if inducted into the Army of the United States, be commissioned in the Army of the United States at a grade not lower than that of second lieutenant, and if inducted into the United States Navy shall be commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve (or appointed to a relative rank in the Navy Nurse Corps) at a grade not lower than that of ensign." Section 4 of H. R. 2277 should be amended by adding at the end of the second sentence thereof the words "other than nurses" and by inserting between the second and third sentences thereof the following clause: "Provided, That in the selection, induction, and commissioning of persons under this Act and in the interpretation and execution of the provisions of this Act there shall be no discrimination against any person on account of race, color, creed, or sex".

Section 4 of H. R. 2277 should be amended by the addition of the following language at the end of said section:

"The President is hereby authorized and directed immediately to provide for the expansion and implementation of the existing program for the voluntary recruitment of graduate, registered, professional nurses into the Army of the United States and the United States Navy. Such program shall be comparable in scope and magnitude to those heretofore employed in the recruitment of members of the Women's Army Corps and of the United States Navy Women's Reserve (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service); and $ hereby appropriated for the purposes of such program. Pending the completion of such program, the remainder of this Act shall be suspended, unless and until the President shall determine, upon certification by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, that the needs of the armed forces cannot be satisfactorily met by such program of voluntary recruitment."

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The CHAIRMAN. Miss Dempsey, please.

STATEMENT OF MISS CATHERINE DEMPSEY, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL NURSES

The CHAIRMAN. For the record, Miss Dempsey, will you state your name and address, and what you wish to appear in the record about whom you represent?

Miss DEMPSEY. I am Catherine R. Dempsey of Cambridge, and I am president of the American Association of Industrial Nurses.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, just what is an industrial nurse? One that is industrious?

Miss DEMPSEY. In one sense of the word; yes. The industrial nurses have to be industrious today. But an industrial nurse is a graduate registered professional nurse engaged in caring for the health of workers. We speak of the term "industry" today as being more or less elastic. In addition to our heavy plants, we also have nurses in banks, stores, and office buildings, but for want of a better name we still call the nurses doing this type of work industrial nurses.

The CHAIRMAN. That is the nurse that takes care of the welfare of the workers, like a school nurse?

Miss DEMPSEY. That is true.

The CHAIRMAN. And in institutions, I suppose, in general.

Miss DEMPSEY. Yes.

The CHAIRMAN. You would even fix up the board of directors' room, would you not?

Miss DEMPSEY. That is true.

The CHAIRMAN. If it were not properly ventilated.

Miss DEMPSEY. Yes.

The CHAIRMAN. I wish you would get into a lot of places that I know of.

Miss DEMPSEY. The hygiene, the conditions under which workers work, while it is actually not the work of the nurse, she does assist and recommends, to the people whose work it is to look out for these things, that proper steps be taken so that workers, the board of directors, as you say, work under and have proper working conditions, properly ventilated and properly lighted.

The CHAIRMAN. Such a nurse takes special training for her work, does she not, something that corresponds to hygiene training in a classroom?

Miss DEMPSEY. Yes. We feel now that industrial nursing is recognized as a distinct branch of the nursing profession, that it does take adequate and extra preparation to be a good industrial nurse. Up until recently there have not been too many opportunities for this to happen.

There is one recommendation which the American Association of Industrial Nurses is making through our committee on education. We have committees working with universities and colleges throughout the country recommending that some form of study be set up for nurses in industry. Until this time it has been felt that any nurse having a public health course was qualified for industry. Public health work is just one function of the nurse in industry. She also has many other duties which are equally important.