RT Journal
A1 McMillan MH
T1 THe supply of practical nurses
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD March 1
VO 72
IS 9
SP 671
OP 671
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610090055026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610090055026
AB To the Editor: 
    —Since the necessity of presenting a nursing bill at the present session of the Illinois legislature became known, an honest effort has been made to try to remove some of the nursing difficulties of the state. To help overcome the shortage of nurses, the course of thirty-six months for the registered nurse has been cut down in a proposed bill to a minimum of twenty-seven months, and a course of eighteen months established for a new group, this also to be registered.To assure the eighteen months' nurse being kept for the bedside care of the sick, a restriction preventing her doing public health work, acting as a supervisor, instructor or executive, has been made. This seems worth trying, as one great cause of the shortage of the private duty nurse is her absorption into other forms of nursing.The need of a part nurse, part housekeeper