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Word: barmann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...wants to go into nursing these days when there are so many better opportunities for women?" asks Adriene Barmann, 27, a cancer nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. For most registered nurses, the average beginning salary is $21,000, yet 30-year veterans regularly earn less than $30,000. Duties range from starting intravenous lines and bathing patients to such menial tasks as fixing TVs and taking out the garbage. Hospitals routinely require 50- and 60-hour workweeks. Little wonder, then, that enrollment in nursing schools has plummeted 20%, to less than 200,000 student nurses, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crisis In Nursing: Fed Up, Fearful And Frazzled | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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