What Do Nurses Do?

What Do Nurses Do?
ISBN-10
174070925X
ISBN-13
9781740709255
Category
Nurses
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
2005
Author
Jane Pearson

Description

Nurses look after patients in hospitals. They check patients' temperatures, blood pressure and pulse rates. They give patients medicine and they arrange for the medical equipment they might need.

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