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What is a Nurse?
A career for women and men!
As a Registered Nurse (RN) you promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. RNs are often health educators for patients, families, and communities. When providing care, nurses watch patients and keep careful records. RNs assist doctors during surgeries, treatments, and examinations and give patients their medications.
There are a lot of ways a nurse can specialize: surgery, emergency room or working with people in a particular age group; for example, older people or infants.