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    "ocrText": "Mrs. Malcolm.\n-2 -\nShe renained in this country about a year\nand was returned by us for work with the Serbian Commission. I\nregret to state that here a very difficult situation arose between\nher and the Chief Nurse which resulted in her being returned to\nthis country after only thrée months' service. In justice to her,\nhowever, we feel that she was not entirely to blane. We felt that\nthe difficulty was due to the lack of leadership on the part of the\nChief Nurse. Sometime after her ret.rn I had a personal interview\nwith her, at which time she attemoted to make an explanation of her\npart in the episode, but has never been willing to file a written\nstatement. Consequently for that reason her record as\nit is impossible for anyone to carry in ones mind the pros and cons\nof such a situation. For that reason it would be very difficult\nfor me to say, afber this lapse of years, whether I was favorably\nor unfavorably impressed by Miss Plake.\nI feel, however, in view of the type of\nwork that you will expect from her that you should have some know-\nledge of thèse particular incidents. It would appear from your\ndescription of the work that you really need a nurse with a find\npublic health background. This liss Slack does not possess unless\nshe has qualified during the past two or three years. In the last\nquesti nnaire filed by her under date of December 10, 1927, she\nindicates that she is engaged in private duty mork. In fact all\nof her questionnaires ince she returned to this country give the\nsame information. The work to which we assigned her in Albania\nand Serbia was of a public health nursing nature, but she served\nunder trained supervisors. Under these circuns tances it is possible\nto use a person who is without special training or experience in\nthis type of work. Her work prior to the Forld War was institu-\ntional. It would not, therefore, appear to me that she had the\npreparation that would qualify her for such important work as that\nwhich you are considering in -yria. You have had such unusually\nfine nurses, and such excellent results have been obtained, that I\nhould regret seeing any Red Cross nurse undertake a iece of work\nfor which she had not had the preliminary preparation, for while\nshe might make some sort of à success at it, I do not believe the\nbest results could be obtained. Puring and immediately following\nthe Horld War we were sometimes obliged, because of the tremendous\ndemand and limited supply, to assign nurses who were without special\nexperience and training that we would now consider essential for\nS. ch an appointment.\nYour own personal observation and know-\nledge of Miss Slack and the recommendations of others may crompt\nyou to appoint her in spite of my rather discouraging report, but\nI felt that in view of the fact that I have recommended so many\nnurses to your organization, that I conhddbe very frank with you."
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