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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician.
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- noun medicine A
professional medical designation recognized in somejurisdictions , denoting an individual who is fully qualified as a nurse and who has additionalqualifications andauthorization to provide somediagnoses and/ortreatments which can otherwise be provided only by alicensed medical doctor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
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