Skills •

Confident with numbers

• Attention to detail
• A nurse is someone • Caring
• Helpful
who gives medical • Team work
A stethoscope is used
• Hard-working
care to people who • Ability to remain calm
under pressure
to listen to the heart
• Knowledge of medicine
are ill or injured. • Organisation
and lungs to check
breathing.
• Dedication

• Nurses care for

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patients.

• Nurses give patients e A thermometer is

used to measure
the temperature of
medicines. a patient.

• Nurses check vital

signs like temperature, A syringe is used to
heart rate, pulse inject medicine into
and breathing. a patient. It can also
be used to take blood
from a patient.
• Nurses work as part of
a team with doctors.

• Nurses communicate A bandage is a strip

of material used to
with patients and protect a wound or
an injured part of
their families about the body.
their treatment.
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