The war had brought about some dramatic labor shifts. Immediately a call went out for 25,000 student nurses in July of 1918, it was followed by a request for graduate nurses who were not already associated with the Red Cross. Also to this point, nurses who had male relatives in the army had been forbidden to go overseas, but due to the critical shortage, those restrictions were repealed. North Dakota was asked to furnish eighty nurses to be sent to the front. It was considered the patriotic duty