ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Hutt News, Volume 17, Issue 38, 8 March 1944, Page 5

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

® VjW&g* OUR NURSES I wonder how many of we members of what is called ' 'the sterner sex" really appreciate the magnitude of work done by the sisters who wear the uniform of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem? At moment we are being nursed back lJ to health from sickness, or injury we may, but it is wonderful how soon we forget. We recover our physical strength and the mental appreciation seems to fade away. Have we? ever, even when our feelings of gratitude ( y'e™ most Pronounced, thought*'lfor'a' 5 moment of the magnitude of work that was necessary to bring the attending sister to the high effitfle'ricy, that we so often merely take as a matter of course? Have we ever pictured in our mind's eye 1 , ' the continued study required tp. keep those nursing sisters up to kate. I propose to give a series - of ■short articles in an endeavour to picture' to you the continued the Nursing; Divisions of our Order. Meantime l would you come as a ■ visitor to our on Saturday, 11 til See our Nursing Divisions and you will then • travel with m%*3W*PisWVfhe history of their growth - the volume of their studies, and the] of their work. When the great philosopher Aristotle said: "Rdueation is an ornaj merit in prosperiC?,/a\/d a refuge in adversity" he must have had the ' picture in his mind of the glorious education that makes the Nursing Sister. To the Sisturs of whom 1 am going'to write, I <iuojU.> from Goethe: ' "And the prince wilf own the loyal— Soul, that breathes through all thy waysLinking firmly each to-morrow _ With lqi^|^n^'|j'yr(la^ S '''