European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Scene 8s 300,000 nursing jobs unfilled associated Pressa National shortage of nurses has brought out inc imagination in Hospital and stale recruiters who Are trying enticements from higher salaries to Meerut Lenl dinners from pay bonuses Lor new nurses to Highway billboard advertising. Some 300.000 nursing jobs in the United Sla Les Are unfilled Naldo. Wilh Hospital nursing vacancies soaring 20 percent according o the american nurses association the Federal Bureau of labor statistics says he big Gisl demand Lor any single occupation in the United slates blow can now and the end of the Century will be Regis cred nurses whose average pay now ranges Between s20.qoo and $27,000 a year. The Agency projects the employment of nurses will grow 44 percent of by 612,000 Between now and 2000, but cautions thai some career pains will by restricted to those Wilh Bachelor s degrees in Iho Field. We some american hospitals have had to close wards because of the shortage Olheis ate coming up with at least temporary solutions thousands of foreign nurses have been recruited in on Effort to ease the shortage in the United Stales although that program has run into some problems with immigration officials regarding temporary visas. In St. Joseph. Mo., the actor who plays the Grandl Atherly or a Schlander in television s is elsewhere joined a recruiting drive by heartland Hospital East. Norman Lloyd stars in a to minute video to be distributed nationwide in heartland s search for nursing personnel having him in it will be an Altenloh Gelter a Missouri Hospital distributed a recruiting video nationwide in efforts to Hora nurses shortage symbolized to something we Hope will catch the Eya of nurses who might be looking of a position said Debi Yancer associate director of patient care services the video will be shown at career Days placement fairs and a recruitment dinners thai have been spurred by the nationwide shortage of nurses. A plan o train welfare recipients to be registered nurses has gotten the go ahead from the administration o Wisconsin gov. Tommy g. Thompson despite criticism from some nurses. The proposal Drew criticism from representatives of lira nursing profession and lawmakers who called it demeaning because it seemed to ignore the education skills and dedication needed to become a nurse. The plan is to be implemented through the Wisconsin employment and training program commonly called work fare we re about 1,000 nurses Short in this state. We be got 80,000 to 90.000 people on welfare said state sen. Joseph Strohl. We be got Mohave 1 percent that have the necessary ingredients to become a  under the plan counties that administer Job counselling will encourage welfare recipients to enter nursing programs at vocational schools. The state will pick up the Cost of tuition and Day care Strohl said. Another Wisconsin plan to ease the nursing shortage involved forgiving some student Loans of nurses who go to work in hospitals or nursing Homes. In Stafford conn., Johnson memorial Hospital leased a billboard overlooking a part of an interstate Highway advertising attention health care professionals. If you worked at Johnson memorial Hospital you would be Home by  some hospitals have begun a nurses for Here program for nurses who travel the country working a Lew months a Ono Hospital Belore moving on to another. In Cincinnati the Good Samaritan Hospital school of nursing is offering a registered nurse refresher course or those who have been out of practice for live or More years. Nurses who left the profession to have families Are often hesitant to come Back because they fear not understanding new  says Carol Perlman school of nursing assistant director of program shortage of Public librarians s6s Polo by Ken George Sharif a i comes amid rising need Tor librarians. Associated Pressa s computer data bases cassettes and compact discs join newspapers magazines and books fhe United slates is confronting a shortage of Public librarians to help sort the flood of information. A Large number of librarians will be retiring in the next five to 10 years and there Aren t the numbers coming in to replace them said Margaret Myers a personnel expert Wilh the american Library association. She said Library schools had 3,538 graduates in 5986, fewer than half the 8,091 degrees in 1979. The shortfall comes As the Public needs librarians trained to help make sense of. The new books data bases vide Casselles specialist magazines and countless other Media that debut daily Myers said. Children s librarians school Media specialists cataloguers and minority service personnel Era in particularly Short Supply experts say. Some openings go unfilled. Others Are staffed by less qualified workers in some geographic areas it s a crisis new York Boston Tho East coast said Ala president Margaret Chisholm. There s such a shortage that it is really affecting services among the causes filed for the shortage Are new co Portalo opportunities an Overall increase in the number of Public Library jobs and Low pay Lor librarians. Average Starling salaries Tor new York City librarians with master s degrees in Library science Are $22,500, 1 said Library spokeswoman Lauren Moye a National Survey of 19b6 Library school masters graduates. Indicated starting salaries averaged $20,874. School librarians averaged $28,390 last year. Reference workers in Public and academic libraries were paid an average $23,552 in 1986, and Stafl in special i libraries including corporations averaged $28,943 in 1985, according to studies. Librarians in he West and Southwest tend to make higher salaries said Myers. Lowest salaries Are in the  j once Ono of the few professions open to women Public and school Library careers Are now just one of Many options a libraries and nursing cannot compete Wilh Law and � banking said de Szynaka Library director in suburban Pasadena. You could Start with a five figure salary in Law \ that could be As High As you would Ever get in a Library career 1 those who stick Wilh Library training Are finding better pay working in corporals libraries and data bases rather i the stars and stripes