The Canadian nurse . particular, by the amalga-mation of the , with the FlorenceNightingale International noted the necessity of conductingmost of the interim committee workby correspondence. Since we in Canadaare similarly restricted in the holdingof regular committee meetings, MissHojers comments may bring encour-agement : This way of conducting committeework is most trying for the inspiration that a personal meetingmight give is denied this leader. Onthe other hand, there is no other limi-tation of her work than the one pro-duced by lack of interest on the p


The Canadian nurse . particular, by the amalga-mation of the , with the FlorenceNightingale International noted the necessity of conductingmost of the interim committee workby correspondence. Since we in Canadaare similarly restricted in the holdingof regular committee meetings, MissHojers comments may bring encour-agement : This way of conducting committeework is most trying for the inspiration that a personal meetingmight give is denied this leader. Onthe other hand, there is no other limi-tation of her work than the one pro-duced by lack of interest on the part ofthe members or, to put it another way,there is nothing to prevent the leaderfrom working out new suggestions fromthe members. She is not limited by num-ber or duration of meetings. It all de-pends on how much her inspiration cancatch and hold the interest of the iriem-bers. The executive secretary of , Miss Daisy Bridges, in re-porting an exceedingly active quadren- SEPTElf BER. 19S3 THE CANADIAN NURSE. Many editors of National Nursing Journals were present. nial period since the Stockholm Con-gress, stressed the importance of thework of these years for they set thestage for events that are likely to oc-cupy us and our successors during thesecond half of this century and shouldindicate the direction in which we asa profession are travelling. MissBridges has personally visited thenurses of 13 countries in this intervaland has attended innumerable meetingsof other international noted that the names and personalrecords of over 4,000 displaced nursesare on file at Headquarters and thatvery considerable assistance has beengiven them, through the nationalnurses associations, in establishingthemselves in new professional reminded us that in 1901 Fenwick had chosen Work asthe watchword. All the Watchwordscontinue to inspire and guide us andWork is one of which we still are notafraid. There was jubilation on the facesof the repre


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