Thursday, May 26, 2011

Wanted: 50,000 Nurses -  Life Magazine January 5, 1942


Less than a month after "Pearl Harbor" the call went out on the cover of LIFE magazine, "WANTED: 50, 000 NURSES" and they went in droves - The world AND Nursing would be changed forever.

"It (50,000) cannot be met by the 1,300 nurses training schools that bestow some of the 23,000 caps a year. This is the problem to be solved by the 100,000 women volunteers. As nurses' aides, they will release nurses to exercise their special skills...."

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