1987 Press Photo Jeanette Hartshorn, president of American Association

Low salaries and a lack of prestige have combined to create a nationwide nursing shortage, the president of a 57,000-member nurses'association says. Jeanette Hartshorn, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, said nursing enrollment had declined 20 percent during the past several years because of salaries that generally peak at $28,000 and the perception that nurses are "handmaidens of the physicians"

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.

Photo is dated 10-07-1987.



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