Editorial

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 59

Editorial

The Nursing Profession m New Zealand is feeling extremely gratified that the offer of the Goverment to send 50 nurses for service under the War Office has been accepted. Steps were immediately taken to hasten the formation of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service which for many reasons had not hitherto been completed. The nurses who are to be sent Home will now therefore belong permanently to the Army Nursing Service, and although at the conclusion of the war they will on return to New Zealand be disbanded from active service, yet from their ranks will m future be called up any nurses needed by the War Office or Defence Department of New Zealand.

The conditions of service are printed m another column. It will, we hope, be looked upon as an honour to belong to this Service, and we trust that the nurses who are now to prove themselves, will set such a standard of excellence, that only the very best ca hope to attain to it, though many may strive to do so, and so m i: hitching their wagon to a star," may yet attain their ideal. One hundred nurses m all are to be enrolled, and many will be keenly disappointed that they cannot be among the fortunate ones, but for the younger nurses we can hold out the hope of filling the vacancies that will occur from time to time.