Wednesday, October t, 1980
daily nebraskan
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Nurses . . .
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"Some earlier schools were basically apprenticeships
in hospitals," she said. "There are also diploma programs
and collegiate degrees for registered nurses. We would like
to establish a set educational goal for a professional
nurse."
Crutchfield said that despite the shortage of nurses,
there has not been a large increase in male nursing
students. In 1979, there were nine men to 214 women in
the college of nursing.
Phyllis Bovee, director of nursing education at Bryan
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, said she has noticed
school3" Case to the number of applicants to the
"We used to get three times as many applicants as we
could take," she said. "Now, we just accepted 120 out of
200 applicants."
Bovee said she anticipated a national r-ed for 20,000
. nurses by 1985.
'There are several reasons for the mfrsing shortage,"
she said. "Fewer high school graduates are going on to
school because they can make more money elsewhere.
There are more places open for women, and other fields
are just more attractive."
Recruits students
Bovee said that the nursing school recruits students be
cause of the declining number of applicants.
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Elaine Wymore, director of nursing at Maplewood
Nursing Home, 4405 Normal Blvd., said that she is
having trouble finding nurses.
"Right now we have 11 nurses to 68 people," she
said. "That is not enough."
Wymore said that she has raised salaries as much as
possible to keep nurses, but there is still a high staff turn
over. "Most of our nurses are still in school or are newly
graduated and looking for other jobs, so most of them
only stay about a year or two."
She said salaries of licensed practical nurses at the
nursing home are comparable to these of Lincoln hospi
tals, but salaries for registered nurses are slightly below
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$6.85 hour
The average salary for practicing professional nurses
nation CStUna at $685 an hour throughout the
Officials of the Nebraska Department of Health re
ported salaries for licensed practical nurses averaging
$4.81 an hour, and those for registered nurses as
averaging $6.08 an hour, according to a July 1980 survey.
Linda Rizijs, director of nursing at the University
Health Center, said the health center has not had a
shortage of nurses even though officials would like to
Nre more nurses.
"One advantage the health center has that other rnedi
cal centers do not is that the work in more on a 9 to 5
weekday basis," she said.
"We are below the minimum wage of most Lincoln
hospitals, but we raised nurses salaries by 30 cents an
hour recently."
Rizijs said that if local hospitals increased salaries,
the health center might have trouble keeping nurses,
but she does not think that will happen soon.
"We do advertise the low salary, and this automatically
eliminates some highly-qualified people," she said.
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