Local Nursing Councils and the USES

Abstract

MANPOWER is a vital national and local story that makes the front pages almost daily. radio carries to the country, with dramatic insistence, the message, Nurses are With increasing frequency workers all over the country are advised to go to your nearest local United States Employment Office. In each local community the significance of these stories and messages becomes a human reality in terms of people who are working to solve problems so pressing that they command national attention. Because of this it is important that local nursing councils for service become acquainted with their nearest local employment offices. An editorial in the April issue of the Journal provides the keynote for this article when it states, The global is up the street of every nurse and is now a local matter, and stresses the importance of developing co-operative community relationships. It is desirable that these include the public employment office because of the important rble it must inevitably. play in recruiting and allocating the available supply of men and women to meet the essential demands of production and civilian service. employment offices can be and wish to be helpful to the nursing profession which is nationally recognized as essential to our home front. strength, initiative, and guidance of the local nursing council can determine, in large measure, the constructive relationship that should be established with the employment office. Heretofore nursing groups and employment offices have considered, rather generally, that they were occupied in mutually exclusive fields. Therefore, it will be most practical to suggest the specific ways in which they can be helpful to each other. After the outbreak of the in Europe, the call for nursing recruits was the first effort to enlist additional women in the nation's service. In 1943 several million women will be called upon to serve their country in almost every type of since a woman's war job now covers an occupational gamut from grocery clerk to aeronautical engineer. need for additional women workers, however, varies from community to community. Therefore, campaigns to recruit women will be undertaken locally when and where they are needed. local employment office will supply the facts on labor demands which are an important part of the local publicity programs to recruit additional women workers. War Manpower Commission has suggested that such local campaigns include reference to the need for nurses. local nursing council, by establishing a cooperative relationship with the employment office, can assure the inclusion of facts about local, state, and national nursing needs in publicity programs sponsored by the local employment offices. council can supply the employment office with appropriate printed leaflets and posters. Many communities, where the demand for women workers is particularly urgent, will conduct special enrolment campaigns. These will involve the house to house distribution of a form for the purpose of securing from all women over a specified age, in the community, information on experience, training, and availability for employment. form, which is returned to the employment office, is used as a basis for call-in and referral to training and employment. instructions of the War Manpower Commission to its field offices, on the conduct of these enrolment campaigns, include the following statement: