Word Finder - nurse

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A wet nurse.

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A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.

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They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.

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A person trained to provide care for the sick.

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The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.

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One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.

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Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".

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A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.

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A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.

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A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.

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A nurse shark.

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To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.

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She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.

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To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.

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To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.

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She nursed him back to health.

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To treat kindly and with extra care

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She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

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To manage with care and economy

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• husband

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To drink slowly

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To foster, to nourish

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To hold closely to one's chest

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Would you like to nurse the puppy?

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To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

Martha is a trauma nurse in a large Boston hospital.

The nurse put her down in the bed and covered her.

Cautiously withdrawing her breast, Natasha rocked him a little, handed him to the nurse, and went with rapid steps toward the door.

I will nurse Nancy.

The nurse turned to the door.

Martha was playing nurse maid to both Howie's limitations and his fragile ego while struggling with morning sickness and her stressful hospital position.

The nurse stared at her.

I made a terrified noise that brought Viny, my old nurse, to the rescue.

The nurse caught her breath and smiled.

Brady looked up as the familiar nurse walked in.

Destiny sat on Carmen's lap and Alex held her arm while the pediatric nurse inserted an IV.

The nurse raised her eyebrows "Hmmm. Let me check and see if there have been any changes."

The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door with her knitting.

Minutes later when the nurse arrived with a syringe of medicine, Destiny was asleep again, still clutching the doll to her chest.

Ask your vet or the veterinary nurse to demonstrate how to brush.

To take the smear, the doctor or nurse puts an instrument called a speculum inside your vagina.

The test is usually carried out by a nurse who uses a speculum to open your vagina so that your cervix is accessible.

Im a nurse and i work very unsocial hours, thats probably one of the reasons that ive been single for so long !

If the milk has not come in and kittens can't nurse, you will see them try to suckle but then they will mew instead.

Recruitment Specialists can provide information to individuals who are interested in working as a travel nurse or who want to apply with American Mobile.

At the other end of the scale we developed a real howler of a scenario where the nurse made every mistake in the book.

For instance, to settle someone into respite care or to nurse someone through a terminal illness.

Ideally you would be a first level nurse with diabetes experience confident in insulin initiation.

A fresh inquest is to be held into the death of a young nurse.

Helen receives annual follow-up appointments with the specialist nurse at the hospital, including annual mammography.

As a temporary nurse at an exclusive hospital at the beginning of her career she risked her job by helping the Jarrow hunger marchers.

Peter Rabbit, himself, joined Senior Nurse Chris Milnes and General Manager Richard Foster to officially unveil the mural on 22nd February 2006.

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Nurse Advisor to cover the northeast.

With the exception of two people, everyone also saw a community psychiatric nurse or social worker.

The registered nurse will indicate which doses have been supplied for the leave on the medicine chart.

Often, an ms nurse will contact the midwife to ensure appropriate pregnancy care plans are in place.

She is a Diabetic specialist nurse based in Bodmin.

You can use these on your own, with a friend or with help from your GP or practice nurse.

There are 6 specialist registrars and a team of senior house officer and advanced nurse practitioners.

The aim was to give the emergency nurse practitioners autonomy to deal with minor problems, order investigations and discharge patients.

Surgeon John Walmsley, assisted by nurse Abby Hodges perform a tie-back on this patient with laryngeal paralysis.

I have completed a masters degree in which I examined the lived experience of being a prison nurse using phenomenology.

Investigations showed that the original FBC sample had been aliquoted from a biochemistry sample by the nurse who performed the phlebotomy.

This contrasts with the delay in the district nurse phlebotomy type of home visit.

Your stoma care nurse can tell you which make would be compatible with your current urostomy pouch.

You can ask your health visitor, school nurse or general practitioner for advice.

Starts to use other members of staff such as nurse practitioners.

Among the POMs that can be prescribed by independent nurse prescribed by independent nurse prescribers are oral antihistamines, eye drops, nasal steroids and other nasal drugs.

However, facilitating nurse mobility within the EU remains problematic.

If the local authority thinks that you need nursing care, they should organize for you to be assessed by a registered nurse.

Nursing care is care that is provided, delegated or supervised by a registered nurse.

We are looking to recruit a client-focused registered nurse to ensure an efficient, effective and seamless service for all clients.

If 8 days or more is required the request is counter-signed by a second registered nurse.

We have excellent specialist rheumatology nurses and have Nurse led monitoring clinics, rapid access and biologic clinics.

However, if you do not wish to be seen by medical students please tell the ward sister or charge nurse.