Doctors and Nurses

Doctors and nurses look after people who are sick or hurt.

Some work in a hospital.

Some work in a clinic.

Some doctors are men and some are women.

Some nurses are women and some are men.

Doctors and nurses are people who are trained to look after sick or injured people, and to help prevent disease and keep us all in good health. Both men and women can be doctors or nurses.

Doctors and nurses train at university and in hospitals. They study for many years to learn about the many different areas of medicine. They learn to operate machines that help find out what is making someone ill, and the machines that help treat the illness.

Some doctors and nurses work in hospitals, looking after patients who are too sick or injured to stay at home. In hospitals they look after mothers and new born babies. Nurses carry out the instructions of the doctors, and keep watch on their patients. They keep checking the patients' temperature and blood pressure, they give medicine and injections, and they change bandages.

Some doctors and nurses work in clinics or in private offices, looking after patients who come to see them.

Sometimes patients are not sick enough to stay in hospital, but need to have bandages changed or special medicine given to them, so a nurse visits them in their home to do this.

Doctors and nurses can work in special areas of medicine. Some look after patients who have cancer, or those who have broken bones, or people who have suffered burns. Some only look after children, or only look after people with heart or kidney problems.
Some doctors are surgeons, which means they operate on patients. Some nurses only work in operating theatres helping surgeons. Some doctors work in research, trying to find better ways of treating illnesses.

Some nurses work in health centres checking on the health of babies and toddlers whose parents bring them to the centre. Nurses weigh the babies and measure them to see that they are growing properly. They help parents by giving them advice about how to care for their babies and helping solve any worries they may have about being parents.

Doctors and nurses are an important part of a healthy community.

If you use any part of this in your work, list the source in your bibliography like this:
Sydenham, Shirley and Thomas, Ron. Doctors and Nurses [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2010)

Updated July 2010 ©kidcyber