HOORAY FOR
NURSES !
by Elle Parkes
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Names: Parkes, Elle.
Title: Hooray for nurses! / by Elle Parkes.
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2017] | Series: Bumba booksHooray for community helpers! |
Audience: Age 48. | Audience: K to grade 3. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016001283 (print) | LCCN 2016011118 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512414448 (lb : alk. paper) |
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Subjects: LCSH: NursesJuvenile literature. | NursingJuvenile literature.
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Table of
Contents
Nurses Keep
Us Healthy
Nurses help keep people healthy.
They work with doctors.
Nurses work in hospitals.
They help patients.
Patients are sick or
hurt people.
Some nurses care for new babies.
These nurses help new mothers too.
Why might new
mothers need a
nurses help?
Nurses also work
in schools.
They take care
of sick students.
Where else
do you
think nurses
can work?
Nurses wear uniforms.
They are called scrubs.
Sometimes they wear gloves.
Uniforms keep nurses safe
from germs.
Nurses use special tools.
A scale checks weight.
A thermometer checks your
temperature.
Why should
nurses check
your weight?
Nurses give people medicine.
Sometimes nurses give a pill.
Other times nurses give a shot.
Nurses go to school
for many years.
Then they are ready
to help patients.
Nurses work long hours.
Caring for others is very important
to them.
Nurse Tools
tool to check
heartbeat
gloves
scrubs
thermometer
scale
Picture Glossary
patients sick or hurt people treated
by nurses and doctors
scale a device that
weighs things
scrubs uniforms nurses wear
shot medicine pushed
through a needle
Index
babies,
doctors,
gloves,
hospitals,
medicine,
patients,
pill,
scale,
schools,
scrubs,
shot,
thermometer,
Read More
Garrett, Winston. What Does the School Nurse Do? New York: PowerKids
Press, 2015.
Meister, Cari. Nurses. Minneapolis: Bullfrog Books, 2015.
Minden, Cecilia. Nurses. Mankato, MN: The Childs World, 2014.
Photo Credits