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Show Sixteen Get Practical Experience At Dee Hospital Sixteen Ogden women today started the second phase of their training as nurses' aids under the Red Cross by "going onto the floor" at Thomas D. Dee memorial hospital, announced. Mrs. O. C. Hammond, R. N., their instructor. The women began training as nurses' aids on December 20, and have continued for three weeks, pausing only on Christmas and New Year's day to observe the hol¬idays. The training calls for three weeks of theory and three weeks of practice to gain the aid rating. The women spend three hours a day, six days a week, in the work. All Enthusiastic "The class started the three weeks of practice training today," Mrs. Hammond said. "Every mem¬ber is enthusiastic and highly pleased at being able to contribute her time and services to the na¬tional victory effort." After their training, the women are expected to give 150 hours to hospital work each year for four years. Several of those in this first class are working women who have taken the three hours daily from their regular jobs to assist in relieving trained nurses of a portion of their tasks. Regular nurses' aide uniforms have not yet arrived for the train¬ees, so they are being gowned in uniforms provided without cost by the local American Linen Co. branch. Completion of the train¬ing course will be marked by a formal "capping" ceremony, pat¬terned after the usual nursing school ritual. For New Class Four of the original 20 who be¬gan the course have been forced through outside happenings to drop the training, Mrs. Hammond de¬clared. A larger class, perhaps as many as 50 women, will begin in mid-February. Enrollments are now being taken at the Weber county Red Cross office, first floor of the city-county building. Chapter Greatly In Need Of First Aid Class Books Asks Loan of Manuals For New Series of Training Units Have you taken a Red Cross first aid course? If you have and if you still own a manual for the course, please contact the Weber county chapter offices and lend your text to the chapter. Mrs. Leah P. Greenwell, execu¬tive secretary, was advised by the branch office in San Francisco that no more first aid textbooks are available for standard or ad¬vanced classes. The stock has been depleted through the amazing gain in number of classes being taught throughout the nation, Mrs. Greenwell was advised. Therefore, an appeal is being broadcast for former students to take their texts to the office of the chapter to pro¬vide study material for the classes being organized. In Large Group Organization of one of the larg¬est adult classes in first aid work is expected by officials to be com¬pleted this evening at seven o'clock at Weber county high school, an¬nounced Kent S. Bramwell. Residents of Ogden city north of Ogden river and teachers from both Ogden and Weber county schools will be in the membership. A competent instructor has been obtained and the class will start tonight after registration of those attending, Mr. Bramwell said. At North Ogden junior high school, a class will be organized at seven-thirty tonight, and Holland¬ers will meet at Pingree school at seven-thirty to start a class un¬der instruction of Johanna Grif¬fith. William T. Raney, Red Cross na¬tional field representative from St. Louis, Mo., will begin a course for instructors at seven p. m. in room 101 Central building in Weber col¬lege. Professional teachers and registered nurses who have com¬pleted the standard first aid course and others who have completed both standard and advanced courses will be eligible for the teacher-training course. For Educators New classes are being planned for a group of teachers in Ogden city and Weber county school dis¬tricts. These will likely be held immediately after school hours one or two days a week, Mr. Bramwell explained. Among the accredited instructors of the county who have just com¬pleted a refresher course under Mr. Raney are Kent S. Bramwell, Louise Call, Mrs. Helena B. Case, Mrs. Helen S. DeBoer, Ferron C. Losee, Gilbert C. Moesinger, Mrs. Janet W. Packer and Mrs. Pearl I. Walker. Courses they will teach are being conducted for Methodist women, for the L. D. S. Nineteenth ward, O. H. S. girls and boys, Weber county high adult class, Weber college, state indus¬trial school and the first aid de¬tachment of J. C. Penney Co. ‘FIRST AIDERS’ URGED TO REACH CLASS ON TIME Tardiness Is Deplored By Official; Graduation Set for Tonight An appeal for persons taking first aid classes to be present when the class begins was issued today by Kent S. Bramwell, Weber county Red Cross chapter’s first aid training director. “Our instructors are working on a voluntary basis,” Mr. Bramwell said. “If students arrive late, it disturbs the class and costs the instructor his time. If the training is valuable enough to take, it should be valuable enough to call for punctuality.” Instructors Graduate William T. Raney, national Red Cross field representative, will graduate his second group of first aid instructors this evening. He has been conducting a class every evening since Monday. Fifteen students will graduate and receive their class assignments. Examinations will be given members of the state guard, company B, tonight at seven o’clock in Weber college Moench building, Mr. Bramwell said, and a group of 40 Methodist women will complete their standard first aid training late this afternoon. Mrs. O. D. Cortner, who taught the Methodist women, will start an advanced course for the same group next week. Dentists Get Training Dentists and members of the dental auxiliary will receive first aid instruction at Ogden high school at seven o’clock this evening, Mr. Bramwell said. The group will meet with the adults being instructed by Victor Hancock until a separate instructor is provided. The class has been reassigned, going now to room 34, which can be reached easily from the north entrance to the high school. Huntsville class will meet twice weekly at the town school, Mr. Bramwell announced. The course began Thursday evening and will meet at seven-thirty p.m. Saturday. |