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 anurse . - 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
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nursing.
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.
-
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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.