WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A NURSE? What they do Nurses care for people who are sick, injured or disabled and support them and their families when they are anxious and upset. They work with doctors to give the patients practical medical care and respond to the person’s needs so they feel safe and looked after. sensitively WARM UP • Do you know who Florence Nightingale was? • Would you llke to become a nurse? Why? / Why not? Nurses' duties Their major are: duties listen to patients and try to understand their worries check patients’ temperatures measure patients’ blood pressure and breathing rates help doctors to examine patients give drugs and injections clean and people’s dress wounds help any person without judgement respect the patients’ privacy. Nurses use high-tech medical equipment and carry out procedures like blood transfusions, but might also do routine checks and procedures with healthy people. Working places and hours They work in a hospital or in the community at a GP’s surgery, health centre or clinic. Most jobs are in the National Health Service though there are also positions at private hospitals or nursing homes, the prison service, the Armed Forces or in industry. Nurses can specialise in an area such as accident and emergency, cardiac rehabilitation, , neonatal nursing, and operating room work. outpatients Nurses usually work about , which can include evenings, weekends, night and . Many hospitals offer flexible hours or part-time work. Extra hours may also be available. 38 hours a week 1 shifts bank holidays 1 MORE Nurses are one of the categories which are maìnly affected by professional diseases related to the back, the shoulders, the neck and the arms. 1 DO Florence Nightingale Biography in English Famous People Bio 1 posted by Nurse wearing protedive equipment during COVJD-19 pandemie in ltaly, 2021