Campaign employs star power to combat nursing shortage.

A marketing campaign aimed at encouraging high school students to consider nursing as a career taps the popularity of a television star to help combat the nursing shortage. Army nurse Colleen McMurphy from the television series "China Beach," portrayed by actress Dana Delany, is the centerpiece of a campaign that was initiated by the Texas Hospital Assn. and distributed free to the nation's 17,000 high schools last winter.