Show I i. i Need for Nurses l X OU YOU ou know full well the need for nursing in inI I hospitals and and homes where e there there- are human beings suffering the pangs of illness You kno know v this need is larg larger i each winter You remember how during the epidemic of influenza the lack of nurses s seriously hampered the battle hattle against disease and death All of which h would suggest an increase of hospital hospit l trained nurses But according to hospital hospital hos lios- pital reports there are fewer nurses now in training than there were four years ears ago go It is true that high wag wages in other fields have tempted girls from entering the training schools of hos hos- This This' may be be corrected by paying the student nurses more than merely enough to pay the cost of f books books books' and an occasional movie But it it seems that the matter of wages is s snot not the chief factor in the reduction reductio of student nurses These girls ar are s said id to object to doing twelve-hour twelve shifts on n hospital floors when their sisters in all an other vocations vocations are working eight hours r thereabouts hereabouts Why should they FurI Further Fur Fur- I ther it is said the to nurses-to-be obJect to doing such work as scrubbing sweeping washing and other janitor service insisting that the doing of these things makes it impossible for them to give their whole attention to the caring for for forthe the ill Certainly it would be bc a a foolish person who would desire to employ a nurse trained in janitor work and laundering rather than medicines and the care pf the sick S Yet that is what many hospitals exact of student nurses And at wages which would make a sweatshop proprietor blush bluh with me A I fair fairer deal should be given them or there re is is' is coming the time when the lack of trained traine nurses will create a fearful demand for coffins crepe and cemetery laborers I v |