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Show -ib"Qal.f iiMg:fcLaa , I NURSING WEEK. Only one of these nurses reporting on or off duty May 13 at the Valley View Medical Center is a native of Iron County. The group represents a wide variety of nursing training institutions. They are, seated, left to right: Delia Garfield, Lola Lam- t oreaux, Wilma Boney and Erna Sin- 2 clair. Back row, 1 to r: Marjorie Parry, June Trimmer, Robyn Brancroft, Em- ma Mortensen, May Smith, Esther Pritchard and Geraldine Gooding. j County Nurses Plan Events for Nat'l Observance , Governor Calvin Rampton has proclaimed the week of May 20-25 as Utah Nurse Week. During this week the nurses of Iron County will have on display the different nurses caps worn by nurses living and working in this community. commun-ity. Residents will observe that many of their nurses are transplants trans-plants from American cities representing many different schools of nursing. Approximately 40 nurses live in Iron County of which 23 are active in nursing in this community either full time or part time. Nurses are employ ed at Valley View Medical Center, College of Southern Utah, Southern Utah Clinic, the Iron County Public Health Department, and Cedar Manor. At the present time a refresher re-fresher course for inactive registered reg-istered nurses is being given in Cedar City at the Valley View Medical Center financed under the Manpower Development Develop-ment and Training Act. This is part of a national campaign to help fill the gap between the need and supply of active nurses in the U. S. today. The Utah State Nurses' Convention Con-vention will be held May 23-25 in Park City. Theme of the conclave will be "The Modern Nurse A Compassionate Scientist." Planning to attend are Alice Barton, Esther Prit- 1 1 chard, Lola Lamoreaux, Jean Nelson and Jean Meyers. j May 22 a USNA District 5 meeting will be held in Mil- I ford at 7 p. m. and guest speaker will be Joseph Jack- son, attorney at law. j Nursing, one of the oldest arts, is no wreaching for the stars with the launching of aerospace nursing. For a i young woman of today nurs- ing holds an "adventure in living" found in no other ca- reer. Even men find nursing challenging and rewarding with its may opportunities in f the prevention of illness and ( the promotion of health. |