TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe supply of practical nurses
AU  - McMillan MH
Y1  - 1919/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610090055026
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 671
EP  - 671
VL  - 72
IS  - 9
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610090055026
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610090055026
ER  -