An effort to give graduate nurses shorter work days with increased pay and yet seem to reduce nursing charges to patients last week showed headway throughout the nation. Nineteen hospitals in seven States were trying out the scheme. Private nurses now normally get $6 for a twelve-hour tour of duty in a hospital ($8 in homes), or 50ยข an hour. In addition in many hospitals the patient pays a variable amount for his nurse's meals. The experimenting hospitals have put their nurses on three eight-hour shifts a day. One of them pays $5 a...
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