Our Own Journal

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 1 July 1928, Page 111

Our Own Journal

We note m the last number of the South African Nursing- Record, that the Editor, Dr. Tremble, conceived the brilliant idea of issuing' the April number as entirely a nurses' journal — all articles to be written by nurses, all reports to be contributed by nurses.

He considered that there were "plenty of thinking" women m South Africa capable of writing — if they would do so."

The result is a very interesting and instructive number, and I am now bringing to my readers' memory the many appeals I have made to our nurses to write articles for the journal, either on their thoughts about matters which concern nurses, or to write accounts of interesting cases, descriptions of new treatments. Nurses m the large general hospitals have splendid opportunities, and might add greatly to the interest of the journal and to the knowledge of those who are not so well placed if they would do this. Not only would it benefit i4 Kai

Tiaki" and its readers, but the writers themselves would thereby take a more intelligent interest m their work and the new methods, and the results would be more impressed on their minds, and thus they would be more able to use them m their after work. I give thanks to those nurses who have sent me very valuable contributions from time to time, m prose and verse, and also to those who send news either of their own doings or of those of their friends. I believe the page of the journal turned to first of all is that of personal items. We should also aim at a more frequent publication. Very often, items of news are received too late for- the quarterly issue, and all these are, of course, too stale for the next. This, however, cannot be done until our subscription list is a much larger one. Nurses who take an interest m their profession, and who are proud of being registered, should all take the journal, as it is for them that it is carried on.