Nurses are important people. Not only are they often the first health care professional that a sick or injured person.
Nurses in medical offices typically assist the doctor by asking you about your symptoms, taking your temperature and blood pressure, checking your weight, giving shots, and collecting blood or urine samples for lab tests.
Doctor's office nurses are also usually educators as well, making sure patients understand their illness and know how to take any medicine that's prescribed.
At the hospital, Nurses provide round-the-clock patient care. They monitor a patient's vital signs, give medicine, draw blood, insert IVs, and work closely with doctors and families to keep everyone up to date on a patient's condition. Some nurses even work in the operating rooms alongside the doctors.