The purpose of this research is to clarify the possibility of transferring the role of the nurses to the family members. Therefore, the questionnaire was established to detect the consciousness of the nurses to transferring the role of the nurse towards the family. As the results the conclusions were as follows:-
1. The caring actions of the patient was in their consciousness highly feasible to transfer to the family members from the contents nurses should do, whereas less possible items were to be transferred the medical nursing observation such as measurements of blood pressure, pulse, respiration etc as the medical support.
2. Nursing practices which were easily feasible seemed to be transferred among them, while those having so many nursing diagnostical significance such as bed-bath and medical technique with risk were hardly transferrable by this survey.
3. Young-single nurse showed higher point of transferrence of caring person than young-married nurses.
4. Nurse in medicine showed higher point of transferrence of medical support than nurse in surgery.
5. Nurse who subscribed professional magazine showed lower point of transferrence of caring person as well as medical support.

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Incubators are indispensable for babies, especially who were born immature. But the circumstances of incubators such as temperature and humidity are favorable for bacteria to proliferate. Especially, the water in the humidifiers of incubators is easily contaminated by bacteria.
This study was intended to investigate whether the water in the humidifiers is to be contaminated or not by bacteria using different waters: 1) sterile distilled water, 2) sterile distilled water with the addition of Silvita (a metal of silver) and 3) purified water prepared in the hospital with the addition of Silvita. The waters in the humidifiers were exchange every day, and samples were obtained before and after the exchange, and sent to the laboratory immediately for examination.
Results of experiments are as follows.
1. The decreasing rate of number of bacteria in the water of humidifiers with the addition of Silvita were 66% in 15 minutes, 91% in 30 minutes, 99% in 60 minutes and 100% in 24 hours after use.
2. Bacteria were not detected in the sterile distilled water those were changed every 24 hours with or without the addition of Silvita.
3. The distilled water made in the hospital was not appropriate for use, because, even if it contained Silvita, microbes were detected of the certain bacterial specimens and Gram-negative bacillus after 24 hours.
Those results indicate that incubators, which were previously sterilized, is not contaminated by the sterile water in the humidifiers, if the water is exchanged within every 24 hours in the presence of Silvita.

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