Show Hospitals Hold Open House and Call Attention to Their Need for Nurses Five Salt Lake City hospitals hei hel open houses Wednesday to give of the public an opportunity to see how they function and to under understand stand the important place these institutions institutions institutions fill in the community The open houses were in observance of National Hospital day The observance was also IP made de the occasion f for r appealing to young yoting girls particularly this years year's crop of high school graduates to consider the de- de of a nursing career Utah's hospitals are today woefully short of both trained nurses and student nurses Mrs frs Dorothy Lowman pr president president si- si dent of the Utah State Nurses Nurses' association association association tion says that hospitals in the state slate are today short at least graduate nurses nurses and and that there are in addition shortages of trained public health nurses and private duty nurses This year the seven hospitals in Utah which operate nursing schools will graduate approximately one hundred nurses That's a good av-good group of graduates graduates grad grad- untes but its it's a an ii 1 un unusual sual group It represents the last lasi lass class la s of wartime cadet nurses In Irr contrast st th the hospitals next year will graduate at th the most 35 nurses and perhaps ps 50 in the year following That isn't nearly enough to keen eeD the roll of trained nurses full It must be remembered that there isa isa is is' isa a a. heavy turnover in the nursing pro pro- The reason is matrimony is Somehow or other depending on the point of view you can ali regard it as a good or bad factor a tor about nursing nurses seem to be pretty good marital material Maybe its it's because they catch the male in a weakened condition Or perhaps men just figure that marrying a nurse insures a lifetime of expert care care At any event the nurse mortality mortality mortality mor figure is s high because of marriage marriage marriage mar mar- and it takes a lot Jol of replacements to keep the ranks filled Nursing and hospital authorities say we need as many as student nurses to sign up for the three three- three year training course That's the goal of the current recruiting drive It is an optimistic misti goal Never have we had that large larg an enrollment of first year student nurses in Utah But even if we fall considerably short of that figure it will willbe willbe be far better than we did last year or orthe orthe orthe the year before This isn't only a Utah problem Its It's nationwide The patient load in U. U S. S hospitals has increased 50 per cent since before th the war And if the hospitals are to do their job of caring for the sick they must have an adequate staff of graduate a and d student nurses Nursing is one of the finest of all an professions for a woman woman It isn't an easy job but it is one with many satisfactions satis satis- fa factions and much compensation It is isan isan isan an opportunity for great service to humanity It is a profession which offers good pay recognition and honor It is training which h is useful throughout life no matter mattel where that life leads Iti It Itis Itis i is a profession which every young girl high school graduate and every parent of such a graduate should consider seriously as one worth orth entering |