An Appreciation

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XV, Issue 4, 1 October 1926, Page 174

An Appreciation

Oamaru, 9/8/26. To the Editor, Madam, — I would like to write^ a short appreciation of the visit of Miss Moore to the Oamaru Hospital. When I learned that the Department had kindly put the services of Miss Moore at the disposal of the different Hospitals of the Dominion, no time was lost m securing for Oamaru this valuable opportunity of procuring such expert advice. We who are m charge of the mid-dle-sized hospitals, have many problems to face, and feel the need of help of more experienced administrators, and of persons of outstanding teaching ability such as Miss Moore. When one has the personal supervision of many different departments, as one has where the hospital is not large enough to allow of specialisation m each department, it is difficult to do justice to the training of the nurses and to administrative work as well. I feel keenly that lack of the wider knowledge which is essential for the training of the

nurses to secure for them the high standard of instruction necessary to allow them to take their places with those from larger and better-equipped hospitals. Miss Moore gave most inspiring lectures to the Sisters, Nurses and myself. In the light of her observations of Hospital methods and the standard of education for nurses m other countries, she was able to bring home to us the pressing need for post graduate classes for us who have been for some years m the profession and also for the higher education of the coming teachers who will be drawn from among the present nurses m training. I found Miss Moore's help invaluable, and hope she will soon be established at the University of Otago to give the teachers of the future the higher and wider education which is essential. I am, yours faithfully, M. MACKIE, Oamaru Hospital.