If, after reading thsi basic book, you are interested in being a Rubber Nurse, are between the ages of 14 and 16, and think you could do well at it, then you would do well to become a Rubber Nurse's Aide. Your duties will include
If you are reading this, then you have already had some contact with a Rubber Nurse and she may take you as an Aide or refer you to another Rubber Nurse, or to one of the Rubber Nurse schools, which keep lists of places where you couls get started or the Rubber Fairy who will start you on your way. Because Rubber Nurse's Aides are still in school or at home and have other things in their lives, a Rubber Nurse will most often have 2 to 4 girls, each coming in at different times on different days.
If you are interested but are under 12, then you can read The Rubber Little Girl Treasury and practice on your Dolly
If you are getting ready to go to Rubber Nursing School and have been a Rubber Nurse's Aide in good standing, you will be assigned as an Advanced Placement Nurse's Aide between your first and second year. This is an opportunity to get ahead of the game so that when you finish school, you will be ready to start right out as a Junior Rubber Nurse and not have to go through a Probationary period
if you have read all of this book, you may want to take the Rubber Nurse's Aptitude Certificate Test. On testing day, it is required to have a Rubber Nurse's Kit of your own with your own identifying logo or picture as you will be given a page to read about an imaginary case and asked to fill out The Nurse's Certificate, design the layette and make a schedule out. The test will also include vocabulary and concepts and other material from Part III of this volume. There will also be an "Advanced" section which will have material that is in the Rubber Little Girl Treasury, Which you will, no doubt, have read and will be quite easy. If you take this test and do well, it will show that you are very interested and your Rubber Nurseing School application will be sent right to the Headmistress alnog with the actual material that you presented for the test and she herself will present it to the Admissions Committee.
If you have that certificate. It will save you from having to take many of the Preliminary classes and if you also have The Advanced note, you will not need to take the Placement Tests or bother with Pre-Orientation and you need come in only about a week before you start instead of two-and-a-half, since you will already know your way around a rubber nursery and rubber nurse's office