A day in the life of a night nurse

Grace Okafor is a nurseмедсестра at a big hospitalбольница in Manchester. She works at night, from eight in the evening to eight in the morning, four nights a week.

Grace gets up at four o'clock in the afternoon. She has a shower and makes a big breakfast — or is it dinner? Then she takes the bus to the hospital. The journeyпоездка, дорога takes forty minutes. At work, she checks onпроверяет, как дела у… her patientsпациенты, gives them their medicineлекарство and talks to the doctors. She doesn't sit down very often!

"The night is quiet, but it isn't easy," she says. "Patients sometimes feel scaredиспуганный at night, so I talk to them and help them relax."

Grace finishes work at eight in the morning. She goes home, reads for half an hour and goes to bed at about ten. She doesn't see her friends very often during the week, but on her free daysвыходные дни she meets them for lunch and they go to the cinema.

Does she like her job? "Yes, I love it," she says. "Every night is different."