A nursing home nurse is a registered nurse who works in a nursing home (primarily intended for geriatric or chronic 
cases) providing professional care for the patients. The downloadable article below provide you with informations about the most relevant hazards related to the nurse occupation, hazards related to the job, preventive measurement for selected hazards, a brief job description, a list of tasks, notes and references for nursing home.
You can find sections about what is dangerous about nursing home job. As there are description about kind of hazardous things such as burns and scalds from hot sterilizing equipment, or contact with hot water and steam, muscoloskeletal damage as a result of lifting incapacitated patients, exposure to ionizing radiation from x-ray equipment, hazard of contacting a communicable disease from the patients, physical violence and verbal abuse in particular from patients with mental disturbances and etc.
Any preventive measurements related to those hazardous things also well-describe here, as specialized information such nurse’s tasks and primary equipment used by the nurse. View detailed of Hazardous Things You Should Know as a Nurse, Nursing Home here in PDF format type (source: ilo.org)
