Nurse
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A nurse is a person who is trained to give care (help) to people who are sick or injured. Nurses work with doctors and other health care workers to make patients well (not sick) and to keep them healthy.
Nursing is a profession, like a doctor, but training for a nurse is different in how long a person must train and what kind of training they receive. In some places, nurses may train for three to five years or more before they receive a license as a nurse.
Nurses work in many places. Nurses work in hospitals, in doctor's offices, and in the community, and even visiting people at home. It is most likely that you will see and talk to a nurse more often than you see and talk to a doctor.
Sometimes people decide to become nurses rather than doctors, because the nurses will be able to help patients directly, by talking to them, doing things they need, carefully watching that nothing goes wrong, and then seeing them as they get better.
Like doctors, nurses can specialize in what work they do. Some nurses train and work to help during surgery. Some nurses train to help people understand health problems like nutrition (what to eat), and disease (what can make you sick). Nurses can do many different jobs to help people.
Nurses are in demand because there are not enough nurses to handle hospital needs. Because of this shortage nurses will sometimes travel to another location to work for a few months in what is called travel nursing
[edit] External links
- American Nurses' Association
- Canadian Nurses Association
- Nursing Documentation & Expressions Project - aims to build the world's largest public repository of nursing documentation examples.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing (USA)
- NMAP The UK’s Gateway to high quality Internet resources for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Professions
