TEACHERS' PREFACE 



IN arranging these chapters on bacteriology for 

 the use of pupil nurses, no attempt has been made 

 to do more than to endeavor to bring the essentials 

 of an enormous subject into a practical arrange- 

 ment, which will serve to introduce young nurses 

 to one of the most important phases of nursing; 

 viz., the prevention of infection. 



The suggested schedule for laboratory work was 

 compiled from several outlines which are in use in 

 different schools for nurses, the courses varying 

 from five exercises of one hour each, to twenty 

 exercises of two hours each ; one seemingly inade- 

 quate and the other requiring more time than is 

 feasible in the majority of schools. This work 

 should not be attempted in the classroom, but 

 should be done in a well-equipped laboratory under 

 the direction of a bacteriologist. The class work 

 may easily be done by the nurse teachers, but they 

 should not attempt the laboratory exercises except 

 after extended bacteriological work. 



The schedule should not be regarded as inflex- 

 ible, as numerous opportunities for the observation 

 of material from well-known cases in the wards 



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