A Caring Profession features a variety of hands-on and interactive experiences to help visitors appreciate the complexity and challenges of nurses' work in various settings and time periods. These activities are designed to appeal to families, children and adults.

Meet a nurse – or dress up like one
In the Nursing Station, visitors will have the opportunity to meet nurses, and ask questions about their profession and their experiences. When there is no volunteer nurse at the station, visitors can browse a database of nursing artifacts or leave a comment or testimony on nurses and nursing. At the Nursing Station, children and adults can participate in a variety of activities, such as getting dressed to enter an isolation room, trying on a traditional nurse's cape, or creating their own nurse's cap from folded paper.

Games for a "fun" learning experience
The exhibition's interactive games include the cartoon-like "Mr. Sickly," a character who helps visitors understand the crucial role that nurses' observational skills play in good patient care. Visitors are encouraged to use their own observational powers to discover what they think ails "Mr. Sickly."

Another interactive game centres on the work of an apothecary nun. Visitors can explore the different healing herbs used by apothecary nuns in New France, and handle traditional, labelled apothecary jars. In the On the Battlefield zone, a true-and-false quiz tests visitors' knowledge about the qualifications required for recruitment as a nurse in the First World War.

Videos: pick and choose
Touch screens in various parts of the exhibition allow visitors to view video excerpts of their choice. The subjects on video include nurses' work with children and in seniors' homes, the Victorian Order of Nurses, Aboriginal midwives, and nursing on the battlefield during the First and Second World Wars.