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Why are nurses important?

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Nurses have many jobs in a hospital, like giving people their medicine, taking blood samples, answering questions and checking to make sure that people in the hospital are okay. For people staying in the hospital, one nurse (or a team of nurses) will take care of them during the day, and a different nurse or team will take care of them during the night.

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