A nurse can do that

Career Day presentation on nursing for middle school kids

1. What Nurses Can do By Lisa Hezel, RN WCC CHT

2. What is a Nurse?

3. Pretty much anything

4. Respected Nursing is one of the most respected professions in the United States.

5. Backbone Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare system. Caring for the sick is only one aspect of what a nurse does.

6. Registered Nurses Work to: promote health prevent disease help patients and their families cope with illness, emergencies and long-term disease save lives make healthier communities

7. Why choose nursing?

8. It’s about helping people The #1 reason to become a nurse is because you care about others You have the opportunity to make a difference everyday You learn something new everyday You can specialize in what interests you!

9. Nurses can work in lots of different places What are some places that you can think of?

10. Hospitals, schools, nursing homes

11. Doctor offices and clinics

12. The military

13. Even in Patient Homes

14. Where would you be surprised to see a nurse?

15. Maybe on a helicopter?

16. Or how about a Cruise Ship

17. Nurses care for all kinds of people Very sick patients

18. Nurses care for all kinds of people To the very small

19. Nurses can be Bosses Teachers Counselors Expert Witnesses Researchers Customer Service

20. Where I work

21. The Pay is Great The average starting salary for a graduate nurse is $48,000 in St. Louis, MO That’s over $23 dollars an hour

22. Lots of Schools to Choose From There are 9 Accredited schools for nursing in St. Louis, MO There are over 100 schools in Missouri

23. How do I get started? Do the best you can in school (math and science won’t hurt) Start planning to go to college today. Talk to your parents, guidance counselor or teacher

24. So What do we do with all that science learn?

25. Let’s see what you know Question: How many bones are in the human body?

26. Let’s see what you know Answer 206

27. Do you know which bone is the Strongest?

28. The Femur A.K.A Thigh Bone

29. Do you know where the smallest Bones are in your body?

30. Let’s see what you know the smallest bones are in your ear. Yep there’s bone in there, too Can you name them?

31. Let’s see what you know Malleus (aka hammer) Incus (aka anvil) Stapes (aka stirrup) 1 2 3

32. Let’s see what you know Question How many types of muscles does the human body have?

33. Let’s see what you know Answer 3 Cardiac Smooth Skeletal

34. The Heart is quite an Amazing Muscle The heart is responsible for getting blood to every part of the body. The average heart pumps   1.3 gallons (5 Liters) per minute. 1,900 gallons (7,200 Liters) per day Almost 700,000 gallons (2,628,000 Liters) per year 48 million gallons (184,086,000 liters) by the time someone is 70 years old. That makes the heart one of the strongest muscles in your body

35. Let’s See What You Know Question What does almost every human have 100 trillion of?

36. Answer Cells

37. What are these?

38. What Famous Bacteria is this?

39. Let’s see what you know Question What is the largest human organ?

40. Let’s see what you know Answer The Skin

41. What does Skin Do?

42. Let’s see what you know Question: What is considered “normal” body temperature?

43. Let’s see what you know 98.6

44. Let’s see what you know Question What is the other word for “heart beat?”

45. Let’s see what you know Pulse

46. Let’s see what you know Question What is considered a normal pulse? 70 45 32 119

47. Let’s see what you know Answer A 70 beats per minute

48. Bibliography/references http://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-graduate-nurse-l-st-louis-mo-jobs.html http://pr.mo.gov/nursing-schools.asp http:// www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/360353/malleus http:// www.montana.edu/craigs/How%20Your%20Heart%20Works.htm