Abstract
known shortage of nurses has been increased part-time work opportunities for professional nurses in hospitals. The number of general duty professional nurses employed part time in nonfederal hospitals in the continental United States rose from 17,188 in 1948 to 77,359 in 1962, an increase of 350 percent. Of even greater significance is the change in the ratio of partto full-time general duty professional nurses, an in'crease of 213 percent in the same period. In 1948 there were 189 part-time general duty professional nurses for every 1`000 employed full time; by 1962 this figure rose to 591. That there had been such an in-
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