In each district a Chief Nurse will be appointed by the Central Office
of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau through the Assistant Director in Charge
of Medical Division upon the recommendation of the District Medical
Officer and with the approval of the District Manager. The duties of the
Chief Nurses in the districts will be to superintend the activities of
the nurses in their respective districts, to visit the local offices
when directed by the District Medical Officer, to inspect the work of
the nurses, to co-ordinate the work of the nurses in the districts,
sub-districts, and local offices and to check up the nurses’ reports. It
will also be the duty of each Chief Nurse, through the District Medical
Officer and the District Manager, to keep the Superintendent of Nurses
in the Physical Reconstruction Section of the Medical Division, U. S.
Veterans’ Bureau, informed of the quality of the work performed by the
individual nurses under her direction. Reports of especially good work,
or unsatisfactory work, should be sent in detail to the Superintendent
of Nurses through the District Medical Officer and the District Manager.
The Chief Nurse in each district will instruct nurses under her charge
as to the proper form for conducting correspondence and of the channels
through which the same will be sent.