Invite a nurse from your local community to speak to your classroom. Prepare the students ahead of time by discussing proper and respectful behavior during a guest speaker. Ask the nurse to discuss daily job routines, educational requirements and other interesting details of the job, depending on the age of your students. Encourage students to prepare questions ahead of time to ask the speaker during open questioning.
Arrange a field trip to a local hospital and ask students to shadow a nurse for a few hours. Obtain the proper permission from both the hospital and the parents before embarking on the field trip. Develop a series of questions the students should answer at the end of the field trip. Examples include, "What types of tasks did the nurse perform?" and "How many patients did the nurse care for during your observation period?" After the field trip, allow student to share their findings with the rest of the class.
Contact your local hospital and gather a list of nurses who agree to allow students to interview them. Ask students to develop their own interview questions to ask the nurses. They might focus on how to become a nurse or how to go about choosing a nursing department to work in. Require students to submit their questions before the interview and edit them as necessary. After the interview, assign students to write a brief paragraph summary of the information they learned during the interview process.
Provide students with a variety of old magazines and ask them to create a nursing collage. The collage should represent all the aspects of the job, including the care of patients to the educational requirements. Ask students to include an acrostic somewhere on the collage using each letter in the word nurse. Each letter should state a fact regarding the profession. Ensure the students have ample craft materials such as markers, crayons and stickers to complete the project.