| Show Serious S. S L L. Nurse Shortage May Close Clos Hospital Wards Wards- County Institution Threatened With Polio Patient Transfers Transfers' closing of the tle polio and isolation wards at Salt Lake General General Gen Gen- eral hospital and transfer of 28 seriously ill pat patients to other hospitals hospitals' were threatened Thursday as a result of the serious shortage J of n nurses ses E. E C. C H. H Pearson hospital superintendent said he needed at least 10 Additional l nurses by nightfall or he would have av to recommend transfer of the t patients I p V f 34 fI L i E. E C. C H. H Pearson Issues emergency call for nurses The nurses we have now have been working double shifts and they are all completely exhausted he said The pa patients In these two wards are acutely ill and need extra attention 24 hours ho every t day We need help and we need iti It Immediately We are appealing to all aU women who have had nurses nurse's training to come to our aid In this em emergency A check made by The Telegram Thursday morning indicated ted that if additional nurses were found have to come from private private private vate duty or work on a volunteer basis since the list of active registered registered registered regi regi- nurses has been exhausted Miss Evelyn I Kidneigh executive director of the Community Nursing Nursing Nurs Nurs- ing ing Service pledged her groups group's active help to the hospitals hospital's current current cur cur- rent emergency but was not op op- op- op There simply are not enough nurses she said There are nori none available that we know of but we will nl do all we can to find some some Two Salt Lake n nurses recently were sent to Los Angeles she said zaid to assist with a af polio outbreak there further h heightening the shortage locally Mrs E. E G. G Richards executive secretary Utah State Stale Nurses purses also Issued an an appeal to all trained nurses to offer their services servIces lerv- lerv ices in the eme emergency gency N Needed eded for Polo Polio The he general hospital needs nurses for polio now she said uld and the need must be met We urge nurses all to help aI through this important period Mrs Richards urged women who I tan can d de te Ui lr s 's tY c s et ev h on ort ona a a. part to con contact act Mr Ir Pearson or or U the superintendent sup of nurses at the hospital The current emergency Mr MI Pearson s said a I 1 d Thursday is heightened b by the general shortage shortage short- short age lage age of nurses a lack which h has has' s' s been of much concern to hospital authorities for many months Young women seeking careers find the low salaries difficult and Unfavorable unfavorable hours hours' deterrent factors fac tors to entering the profession he said However that doesn't make the curr current nt situation any le less critical he added These patients mus must be taken care of someway They I cannot be neglected And even if we transfer them to other hospit hospitals hospi hospi- t ls the problem isn't solved bec because because be be- c cause use every hospital in the city is critically short of trained nursing help What we need need and and immediately immedi Immedi- a is tely-is is a group of volunteer workers who will not mind working working work- work ing ng long hours with contagious cas cases s. s Not Connected t The shortage is in inn inno no way connected connected con eon with an outbreak of polio Mr P Pearson arson emphasized Of OJ the 28 patients concerned hI he said only 12 12 are polio con con- while the remainder are are suffering f from om various contagious contagious contagious con con- diseases This is not to tobe tobe tobe be interpreted as an outbreak of any any kind It is merely the normal build up of Contagious c cases ses coupled with writh the short shortage ge of trained help Frank S. S Emery Utah Nevada representative National Foundation tion lion for Infantile Paralysis said four persons have died in Utah this year from tram polio and termed the polio r rate te abo about t normal |
