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 Kotex sanitary napkin advertisement appealing to high school graduates to join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps to help ease the nursing shortage, circa 1944 Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation Click the image to see larger version |
 Cadet Nurse Corps nurse Mary Tamashiro, 1944-1945 Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation |
The Cadet Nurse Corps recruited nursing students to work in military and other critical care facilities while they were in school. Cadet Nurses were obligated to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps or perform other critical nursing services in public hospitals for the duration of the war. Although they wore uniforms, the Cadet Nurses were civilians under the auspices of the Public Health Service.
 U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps recruiting pamphlet Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation Click the image to see larger version |
 Cadet Nurse Corps nurse Dolores Schlueter, St. Mary’s School of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Credit: Courtesy Susan Jollie |
 Poster, "Save his life…and find your own. Be a Nurse" 1943 Credit: Library of Congress |
HEALTH CARE
The nursing shortage became worse as nurses joined the military or took higher paying jobs in government and industry. Nursing students were paid to enter the Cadet Nurse Corps. Married women were encouraged to return to work, and many women volunteered as nursing aides to fill the void. An all out effort was made to encourage trained professionals to return to nursing.
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