Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The profession of a nurse.
  • noun The tasks or care of a nurse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective In the state of suckling young, lactating.
  • adjective Referring to nurses.
  • noun breastfeeding
  • noun The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
  • verb Present participle of nurse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the profession of a nurse
  • noun nourishing at the breast
  • noun the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm

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Examples

  • Once while reflecting on the nature of nursing against a background of notions about intersubjectivity drawn from experience and literature and testing them against my own real life experiences of nursing, I suddenly saw that _nursing itself is a particular form of human dialogue_.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

  • A blog about nursing wouldn't be much good unless it was, you know, about * nursing*.

    Head Nurse 2009

  • The truth is I lost my mom two months ago, a few days after we moved her up North in a medical van to be in a long-term care facility she hated the term nursing home near my brother's family.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Susan Orlins 2011

  • Dr. Pammla Petrucka holds a PhD in nursing from the University of Alberta, a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in Aboriginal health policy with the Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre, and a research associate appointment with the Centre for Knowledge Transfer.

    Archive 2006-03-12 Edward Willett 2006

  • Dr. Pammla Petrucka holds a PhD in nursing from the University of Alberta, a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in Aboriginal health policy with the Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre, and a research associate appointment with the Centre for Knowledge Transfer.

    Come to The Score Edward Willett 2006

  • She is set against moving to Green Grove retirement community, which she describes as a nursing home.

    The unofficial Sopranos episode guide #1 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • She is set against moving to Green Grove retirement community, which she describes as a nursing home.

    Archive 2007-03-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • We don't want it to grow into what we call nursing-home grass.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010

  • She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts and has published extensively with her most recent release entitled Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer.

    Women Grow Business » 2009 » April 2009

  • She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts and has published extensively with her most recent release entitled Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer.

    Women Grow Business » “Am I a Woman in Business?” Learning to Promote Yourself the Same Way Businesses Do 2009

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