Commendation for a Scottish Nurse

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XV, Issue 3, 1 July 1922, Page 106

Commendation for a Scottish Nurse

From the Auckland "Star":— The thoroughness of the Scottish character was exemplified at the last meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board. The chairman was explaining the splendid work which was being done by the nurse in one of the out-districts. She had only been in the Dominion a year, and has tackled the problems of her work with such determination that she has learnt to ride and drive a horse over the roughest roads so that she may visit the sick in the most obscure parts of the district under her charge. "She must be Scotch/' whispered a member. "Yes," interjected the secretary of the Board. "She is an Aberdeen lassie." "I knew it," exclaimed a member of the Board who had spent many years in Aberdeen, and the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, who graduat-

ed at Aberdeen, wore a smile that was good to see, and members smiled all round. Sister Jean Wilson has now been at Wellsford for nine months, having been sent there by the Health Department to try the district and ascertain the need for a nurse. She was later appointed a permanent officer of the Hospital Board, and her work has steadily increased. Sister Wilson was trained at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Leeds Maternity Hospital. On arrival in New Zealand, April 1921, she was temporarily appointed Sub-Matron at St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, while awaiting a post as district nurse, which was her ambition and for which she has proved herself so well fitted. These are the women with the true pioneer spirit who are wanted in this young Dominion from the Old Country.