Working life From the start of your training and into your first job, you'll learn how to observe patients and assess their needs. Youll learn to plan and deliver the most appropriate care for them, and evaluate the results. Building a trusting relationship with each patient is essential. Your aim is to improve your patients quality of life, whatever their situation. Youll need to take lots of factors into account and juggle many priorities to get the best possible results for your patients. Your nursing career will mean working with adults of all ages. They may suffer from one or more long or short-term physical health conditions. This could include heart disease, injuries from an accident, pneumonia, arthritis, diabetes or cancer.