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Page 6 The Battalion Thursday, August 3| Texas hospitals will need 20,000 more nurses in ’9(1 AUSTIN (AP) — Texas is going to need about 20,000 more nurses next year than it will have, and the sick and injured will feel the gap. For some, it may mean health care is less available. In early August, the city of Dallas announced it was clos ing most of its health clinics at shel ters for the homeless because of a lack of nurses. most of her time with the® was the most ill and needed tention. At the end of the J said, she apologized to; tient who nad received |r 5 ] time. FLOP T o E S o f f w «. >• t For hospital patients, the shortage who can mean seeing less of a nurse wf bears a great part of the responsibil ity for tneir well-being. A registered nurse at one Austin hospital said she feels the difference between what she would like to do and what her workload will allow. While he was understaid said, “I don’t want anyhojl like, 'Because I’m not as sidj as important.’ Anybody t needs care," 1705 Texa Culpeppei 693-1 Michael L. Evans, in charge of nursing at Sll said he does not gtt im plaints, and those he receiJ concern the quality of caret * “You can give the (medical) care that’s necessary, and they’re not suf fering in that regard," Marion Smith, w ho works at St. David’s Hos pital, said. “I think what probably is not give'n as much is the small things that you want to do for the patient,” the 27-year-old Smith said. “You really want to be there. You want to l>e able to sit down and talk to them al>oul how their feelings are about their surgery tomorrow, and sometimes you can’t do that.” On a recent day, she recalled, she was caring for Five patients but spent "It’s that, ’The nursesju have time to do suchands seemed to be so overwork, was reluctant to ask for si cause the nursesjusi seemeia stretched,”’ Evans, who ini tered nurse and presides Texas Nurses Association,a;| That is not the feelingtkii wants to convey, he said. "We try to create theife] and it is just an iliusion-1 the patient leaves that thtyfJ 'I had my own nurse,and4i| son really had timetotalluo tell me all this,’... 1 don't* be that they leave and thtv they were rushed," he said QUARI NIGI Charities get tax breab| for selling publications Evei You can save literally days of work between now and grad uation. Simply by using an HP calculator. Tb keep you from endlessly retracing your steps, ours have built-in shortcuts. Such as the unique HP Solve function for creating your own formulas. Menus, labels and prompts. Program libraries. Algebraic or RPN models. Better algorithms and chip design help you finish much faster and more accurately than their way. So, whether you’re in engineering, busi ness, finance, life or social sciences, we’ve got the best calculator for you. For as little as $49.95. Check it out at your campus bookstore or HP retailer. HEWLETT PACKARD AUSTIN (AP) — A new state law provides sales tax exemptions to a variety of philanthropic and charita ble groups, while allowing Texas to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme- Court ruling, says state Comptroller Bob Bullock. "The new law serves two purposes — it gives deserving groups a tax break, and it allows us to keep our sales tax laws intact,” Bullock said Wednesday. Under the law, which went into effect Monday, charitable, philan thropic and benevolent organiza tions may sell publications and other writings tax-free if the groups pub lish and distribute the printed material themselves, Bullock said in a statement. © 1989 Hewlett-Packard Company PG12905 For example, if a local historical society sells cookbooks to raise money, no tax is due on the books, so long as the society distributes the books, he said, Bullock said other groups I under the tax exempuonkl Junior League, collegesororidti fraternities, Rotary and clubs, and the PTA. Bullock said the legislai passed after the Supreme ( ruled in February that Teal unfairly exempting religioysotj zations from paying sales taxos riodicals and writings, sincep cals by other types of orj were not exempted. The case against the siaitl brought by 'lexas azine, which was refunded)!! 1 in state sales-tax after lliet upheld the magazine’s arjan Bullock said. 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