A Nurse is someone who helps take care of moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, friends and you when you are sick. There are many kinds of Nurses.
**Nurses who work with children in a doctor's office are called Pediatric Nurses.
**The Nurse who helped delivery you when you were a very tiny baby is called a Labor and Delivery Nurse.
**When you visit a Nurse at School, he or she is called a School Nurse.
Nurses are very smart and work hard. Nurses go to college to learn how the human body works and how to take care of it. Nurses work along with Doctors and other health care professionals. Nurses are important because they care if you are living healthy.
If you know a nurse, ask to take a picture of them at work and send the picture to us and we may choose to put their picture here. Ask them to tell you what they do as a nurse, to take care of their patients.
**Maybe someday you will choose to be a caring Nurse.
What is a Nurse?
Going to College
You learn about the human body when you go to College to become a Nurse.
Pinning Ceremony and Signing Your Name
When you graduate from Nursing School, you go to a Pinning Ceremony and sign your name. Signing your name is very serious because you are going to be taking care of "People" as a Nurse.
Labor and Delivery Nurse
Nurse JoAnn is a Labor and Delivery Nurse, here with baby Michael.
She helped the Doctor and coached Mom and Dad while Michael was being born.
She gave encouragement and medicine to mom when she needed it.