Bishop Johnson College of Nursing - Stethoscope Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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T r r y ! ' I as con- -scribed nt was 2 only work- Beyond cilified ll6QV9e pn the iounti' eriod litart care l be' l ' l N X li Z , if i 4 - ' 4 I l T v , 'lb . y g hx 1 ' OM r S l ii 5 T i 'il ln order to maintain the quality of patient care, despite staff shortages and an accelerated employee turnover rate, Volunteers were introduced to our Hospital, Red Cross Nurses Aides and Gray Lady Corp members assisted from T942 until the Spring of '44 when they were withdrawn from private hospitals. In the meantime, the Hospital had organized a Volunteer department and had begun its own volunteer training program. By 1944, the 80 hospital Volunteers were giving over seventeen thousand hours of service in direct patient care and in preparation of supplies. They became an indispensable part of the Hospitals life. Above is a group of the Hospital Volunteers with Martha Easley, the first Volunteer Director. The United States Cadet Nurse Corps was created in June T943 to help relieve the shortage of nurses in civilian and military hospitals by intensified recruitment of students and provision of tuition, fees, uniforms and stipends for students in approved accelerated nursing programs. The schools were paid for maintenance of students during their first nine months. Approximately 87 75 of the Student Body elected to ioin the Cadet Corps when the school was approved in July T943. The students, in return for the governmental assistance, agreed to stay active in nursing for the duration of the national emergency. During the final six months ot the troining period, students were permitted elective ser- vice in this or Federal Hospitals. The last student group to enter under the Cadet Corps was in October l945. A total of twenty-eight students from other schools spent from 3-6 months Senior Cadet experience here. According to Red Cross records, sixty of our alumnae served with the Armed Forces during World War ll.