Medical Division
Bulletin No 6
United States Dffiee of Civilian Defense
Washington D. C.
OCD 3059
December 942
This Bulletin outlines the program of the Medical Division of the United States
Office of Civilian Defense for nursing services which may be required in wartime to carefor civilians injured by enemy action or other hazards of war.
If they are to participate effectively in Emergency Medical Service nurses must
be informed of the organization of the local Defense Council and the duties of other
branches of the United States Citizens Defense Corps. They should understand thecoordination of the Emergency Medical Service with other protective units of the
United States Citizens Defense Corps and be able to answer the questions of their
patients and the public concerning these activities. As disseminators of information
nurses share the responsibility for public morale.
TABLE F CONTENTS
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The Office of Civilian Defense. .......
The Nursing Section of the Medical
A. Regional Nurse Deputies and
B. State Nurse Deputies andC. Local Nurse Deputies and
The Emergency Medical Service .....
A. Field Casualty Units ................
B. Casualty Stations. ............. ......
C. Casualty Receiving Hospitals..--
D. Care of Patients in Homes ........E. Emergency Base Hospitals .........
F. Nursing Service in Reception
IV. First-Aid Training for Nurses in theEmergency Medical Service ........
V. Blood and Plasma ..... ...................
VI. Chemical Casualties ........ ...... [ ......
VII. Sanitary and Public Health Engi
VIII. Volunteers in Health Medical Care A. Volunteer Services of Registered
B. Volunteer Nurses’ Aides. .......... -_
1 C. Nursing Auxiliaries ...................
D. Red Cross Home Nursing ..........
E. Other Volunteers ... ..................
A. Warning System and Control
B. U. S2 Citizens Defense Corps .....
1. Medical Unit ..._......_.__.__._____
2. Enrollment at Civilian De
fense Volunteer Office ........
C. U. S. Citizens Service Corps ......
D. Civilian Defense Auxiliary
E. Insigne Identification and Dress
F. Personnel File for Emergency
Nursing Service ...... . .............
1. Graduate Nurses ..................
2. Nursing Auxiliaries .... .- .........
3. Volunteer Nurses’ Aides ........
G. Relationship of Red Cross and
H. Self Protection Against Injury
I. Home Water Supply Precautions
J. Regional OHices——States in each
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NURSING P RTICIP TION IN THE EMERGENCYMEDIC L SERVICE
I. THE OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE
The United States Ohice of Civilian Defense,
established by executive order of the President,
May 20, 1941, includes four operating branches:
Protection War Services Civil Air Patrol
and Facility Security. The Protection Branch
is composed of a Protection Division whichdevelops programs involving air raid warden
service, fire defense, control and communica
tions, transportation, blackouts, camouilage,
and protective construction; and the Medi
cal Division which is responsible _for all
activities in the field of medical care and sanitation which are required to protect the civilian
population from the hazards of enemy action.
The War Services Branch is responsible
for over-all Defense Council organization
including Civilian Defense Volunteer OHices,
for the coordination of Civilian War Services
other than those of Civilian Protection, and for
the Citizens Service Corps, which is composed
of volunteers engaged in such Civilian War
Services.
To facilitate administration the United
States is divided into nine Civilian Defense
Regions coterminous with the Army Service
Commands. In each Region a Regional Di—
rector and staff are assigned the responsibilityof assisting State and Local Defense Councils in
planning and carrying out the Civilian Defense
program within the States. Liaison oHicers of
the Army and Navy maintain close coopera
tion between the military establishments and
the Oiiice of Civilian Defense in the National
and Regional OHices.‘
State Defense Councils provide leadership
to local Defense Councils through a State di
rector or coordinator and his staff. It is the
local Defense Council which must assume the
major responsibility for Civilian Defense andother essential activities of the civilian war
effort. (See Organization Outline for Local
Defense Councils, prepared by the U. S. Office
of Civilian Defense.)
II. THE NURSING SECTION OF THE
MEDICAL DIVISION
The work of the Medical Division of the
.Oftice of Civilian Defense is organized according to the following functional lines—field casualty service, hospital care, nursing service,
blood plasma production and distribution
rescue-first aid, gas defense, sanitary engineer
ing, plant protection, and scientific development and research.Effective nursing participation in the Emer
gency Medical Service program depends on close
integration between available medical and
nursing facilities. To accomplish this the
Medical Division of the Office of Civilian De
fense provides nursing consultation and assist
ance to National, Regional, State, and local
authorities responsible for the development of
the emergency medical program.
A full-time nursing consultant has been as
signed from the United States Public Health
Service to the 'Medical Division of the Office of
Civilian Defense as a member of its staff and
chief of its Nursing Section. She maintains
direct contact with all Federal agencies con
cerned with nursing programs and liaison withthe National Nursing Council for War Service,
which is composed of representatives of the
national nursing organizations, the Red Cross,
and Federal agencies. The Subcommittee on
Nursing of the Health and Medical Committeeof the Office of Defense Health and WelfareServices serves also as an advisory nursing
committee of the Medical Division.
The Nursing Section assists in the formula
tion of the Medical Division plans for nursingparticipation in the Emergency Medical Service
program. In cooperation with the United
States Public Health Service, nursing schoolsare stimulated to expand and accelerate their
programs of nursing education so as to meetthe expanding needs of the armed forces of
war industries, of public health agencies, and of
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