Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theo K. Cheng '91, a co-representative to ECASU, said that more than 520 students from 52 schools attended last year's conference. Elaine Cheon of Cornell's Asian student organization predicted the conference will attract more than 600 students this year. She said the conference will cost about $12,000 and is co-sponsored by five Cornell organizations...
...gathering signs of a health-care disaster, Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen recently convened a special commission in Washington to find ways to revitalize the nursing profession. Almost simultaneously, retired Admiral James Watkins, the chairman of the presidential AIDS panel, called for federal programs to attract half a million more nurses by 1991 to treat AIDS patients and others who are chronically ill. Nurses on the job bluntly admit that patients entering U.S. hospitals these days may be risking their lives. "You should be worried if you or someone in your family has to check into...
What is the solution? Trying to attract young nurses by offering higher starting salaries is a first step. But the cost of constantly having to train new nurses drains the resources of virtually every major medical center. The money might be better spent on creating incentives for experienced nurses to stay. "Nurses who are competent and show potential for professional growth ought to be able to double their salaries in ten years and triple them by retirement," argues Judith Ryan, executive director of the American Nurses' Association, based in Kansas City. "That would make us competitive with other professions...
...medical community can no longer afford to chew up its nurses and spit them out. "The old attitude toward nurses -- 'work long, work late, work hard' -- is just not going to attract people," says Debbie Davenport, a Los Angeles nurse. Agrees the AHA's Curran: "Nurses aren't content to be the housewives of the hospital anymore." Nor should they...
...When the Core was created, nobody thought it would be as big as this," said Lewis. The new courses were originally expected to attract about 10,000 students a year, she said. But today, upwards of 16,000 enroll in Core courses each year...