Hospital Nurse - Working conditions
Tapuhi Hōhipera
Working Conditions
Hospital nurses work in hospitals, clinics, rest homes, nursing homes and community health centres.
Equipment
Equipment hospital nurses use includes:
- medical equipment and instruments
- a range of specialist machinery such as kidney dialysis machines, ventilators and IV pumps
- drugs and anaesthetics
- sterile gloves, masks and gowns
- computers.
Theresa Parsons taking a patient's blood pressure
Hospital nurses use a range of specialist equipment including defibrillators
Hours
Hospital nurses often do shift work, which include nights and weekends. The length of a shift can vary from eight to 12 hours.
Contact with people
Hospital nurses work in teams and have a lot of contact with people from a variety of backgrounds, including patients and their families, other medical and nursing staff, and members of the public.
Hospital nurses have a lot of contact with their patients
Updated
September 2009
