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Show Hospitals Launch Drive for More Student Nurses Faced with the possibility that many Utah hospitals will be forced to close down beds unless un-less 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, association president, announced announc-ed this week. "Many hospitals over the nation,"' na-tion,"' he said, "have been forced forc-ed 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. Advancements In Medicine Mr. Zenger declared that during dur-ing the past ten years tremendous tremend-ous strides have been made in medical science, which has resulted re-sulted in more people taking advantage of hospitalization facilities: fa-cilities: To care for these additional addi-tional patients, new hospitals have been built and older ones enlarged, he said. "Meantime," he said, "the number of nurses has not kept pace with the overwhelming increase in-crease in the number of patients." pa-tients." Unlimited Opportunities He reported that the nursing profession offers unlimited opportunities op-portunities to young women. "In addition to offering an excellent ex-cellent education." he said, "a graduate nurse will be able to step into a good paying job with excellent opportunity for advancement.'' ad-vancement.'' Mr. Zenger urged young women wo-men to apply at larger hospitals throughout the state for further details on student nurse training train-ing program. He also appealed to nurses who have left the jno-fession jno-fession to learn from the hospitals hospit-als of the many new attractions now being offered to experienced experienc-ed nurses. |