Nurse Visit

Today Nurse Gillies came to visit.

Nurses look after people who are sick and injured.  They work in a team with doctors and other nurses.  Nurses can work in hospitals, doctors surgeries and even go to peoples houses who are not sick enough to be in hospital.  Nurses work at different times of the day and night. It is called night shift and day shift.

Nurse Gillies has two nursing jobs.  One is at the hospital where she looks after patients before and after they have an operation.  The other is as a district nurse where she goes to check on patients that are not sick enough to be in hospital.  She checks that they are ok and changes their dressings.

She wears a uniform like this:

Her Uniform

This is an old one

She as an identification badge with her name, her job name and a photo.

She has a special hanging watch that is upside down.  That is so she can look down and see the time quickly.  

Nurse Gillies took some of our temperatures.  She put a thermometer under our arms to see if we are warm.  Everyone was a little cold.  It was a very frosty morning.

She showed us some dressings and put them on us. 

Many dressing come in sterile packets.  Sterile packets are very clean so that no bugs are in them.

They use saline which is sterile salty water.

Nurses  uses sterile tweezers to clean sores

 Bandages

Dressings for cut skin

Waterproof dressing

Strip dressing that pulls skin together

Thank you for coming to tell us all about your job Nurse Gillies.