BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Remove 



Day Garments. 



Untidy 

 Nnrses. 



Let the 

 Sunshine In. 



The Sunny 

 Nurse. 



Do not sleep in any garment worn during the 

 day. Learn to relax the muscles when resting. 

 Do not sleep with a pile of pillows beneath the 

 head; use only a small pillow. Better no pil- 

 low at all than to be held up in almost a sitting 

 position all night, rounding the shoulders and 

 making the chest hollow. 



Keep your own room clean and neat. It is 

 a matter quite surprising to find any number 

 of nurses whose rooms look as if "a cyclone had 

 struck them," and yet who would not be 

 guilty of such negligence if they were more 

 thoughtful of laws of health as applied per- 

 sonally. Where there is dust and other lack of 

 cleanliness there, also, will always be found 

 disease germs. 



Sunshine. — Sleeping rooms and all rooms 

 occupied by the delicate should be rooms with a 

 southern exposure, so as to have the effects of 

 the sun's rays for the greater part of the day. 

 Not only should we live in the sunshine as 

 much as possible, but we should ourselves be 

 sunny. The only place for the gloomy nurse 

 is with the mercenary nurse, the bad-tempered 

 nurse, the untrustworthy nurse and the nurse 

 who "enjoys poor health" — outside the ranks. 

 This thought is particularly applicable to those 

 nurses who honestly desire to be successful. 

 Those with a sunny disposition are always at a 

 premium. What sick one can fail to love and 

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