'Course for Infection Control Practitioners' booklet

Description: This booklet comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. In November 1976, Bird was appointed Staff Nurse in Infection Control at Palmerston North Hospital. She was promoted to the position of Charge Nurse Infection Control in 1980, then later to Nursing Supervisor, and subsequently Manager of Infection Control.

This booklet is from one of the first infection control training courses held in New Zealand. Bird spoke on "Precautions Against Spread of Infection. Isolation Procedures" and "The Role of the Infection Control Nurse".