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Show HOSPITALS NEED MANY NURSES ProVO Faced with the possibility possi-bility that many Utah hospitals will be forced to close down beds unless additional nurses are obtained, ob-tained, the Utah State Hospital association has launched an intensive in-tensive nurse recruiting campaign, cam-paign, John Zenger of Provo, as-goclation as-goclation president, announced this week. "Many hospitals over the na tion", be said, "have been forced to curtail hospital service for lack of nursing personnel. In Utah, however, the situation is not as desperate, but beds will have to be closed in the future unless more student nurses are obtained," he said. Mr. Zenger declared that during dur-ing the past ten years tremendous tremen-dous strides have been made in ' medical science, which has re-t re-t suited in more people taking advantage ad-vantage of hospitalization facilities. facili-ties. To care for these additional patients, new hospitals have ! been built and older ones enlarged, en-larged, he said. "Meantime," he said, "the , number of nurses has not kept I pace with the overwhelming in- crease in number of patients." He reported that the nursing profession offers unlimited op-1 op-1 portunities to young women. "In ! addition to offering an excellent education," he said, "a graduate ! nurse will be able to step into a ! good paying job with excellent ' opportunity for advancement." Mr. Zenger urged young wo-; wo-; men to apply at larger hospitals I throughout the state for further j details on the student nurse j training program. He also appealed appeal-ed to nurses who have left the profession to learn from the hospitals hos-pitals of the many new attractions attrac-tions now being offered to experienced ex-perienced nurses. |