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dots Nurses care for people of all ages who are injured, ill, or disabled. This care includes physical, psychological and social aspects. Nurses contribute to designing and implementing programs of care for individuals, provide basic healthcare to populations within a designated area, and work preventatively with individuals and groups. Providing advice, information, and education about health are important parts of nurses' work. Specialist areas include: community health, aged care and geriatric medicine, emergency nursing, mental health, obstetrics, oncology, paediatrics, perioperative nursing, acute medical and surgical nursing.

Nurses work in a range of settings including:

  • public and private hospitals
  • community health centres
  • domiciliary nursing services
  • nursing homes
  • schools
  • pathology laboratories
  • armed services