Why the Nursing Shortage Persists

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THE shortage of registered nurses persists, and affects every hospital, every doctor on the attending staff of a hospital and every hospital patient in this country. This continuing shortage seems incredible in view of the fact that since 1948, the number of girl high-school graduates (potential candidates for nursing) has increased from 627,046 to 990,000 a year, an increase of over 50 per cent (Table 1).In the September, 1960, issue of The Modern Hospital 1 I described at some length a number of major factors tending to produce and perpetuate the nationwide shortage of nurses. In that article I made . . .

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