Nurse Nerida

About the Book

Nurse Nerida works at the Hilltop hospital in Brisbane as a Nurse Practitioner, caring for sick or hurt children. She also works in the community, teaching and promoting positive and healthy living. Nurse Nerida tells us the story about her week at her work, where her focus is caring for and teaching children how to be careful after they have hurt themselves and come into the hospital. Nurse Nerida also works in a team with Doctor Dimitri who helps her when very sick or hurt children come into the hospital. In this adventure, Nurse Nerida, with the help of Doctor Dimitri, takes care of four little children, one on Monday, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Firstly, she looks after Ambrose who fell off his bike and wasn’t wearing a helmet. Next, Nurse Nerida looks after Billie who put a pea up her nose when her mother wasn’t looking. Then Nurse Nerida cares for Ashleigh after she burns her hand turning on the hot water tap in the bathtub. Lastly, Nurse Nerida takes care of Lewis who was very sick after trying to swallow a toy car and gets brought into Hilltop hospital in an ambulance. Nurse Nerida then sends the children home from hospital with a little bit of advice of her own! Then on Friday, instead of working at the Hilltop hospital, Nurse Nerida visits the local school to talk to all the children about how to be healthy. Nurse Nerida teaches the children about germs and how to prevent them from getting sick through four basic rules: 1. Washing their hands before they eat and after they visit the toilet 2. Eating fruit and vegetables (no matter how yucky they taste!) 3. Covering their mouths when they cough or sneeze 4. Blowing their noses with tissues or handkerchiefs. Nerida then finishes her talk by encouraging all the children to sing a song about how to by healthy! Nurse Nerida is hoping to become a series of adventures so children can be informed and educated about how to be healthy and happy.

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