A nurse is a trained healthcare worker who takes care of sick people. To nurse is to take care of, like if you nurse a baby bird back to health.
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as:
Noun
a woman who is the custodian of children
Noun
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
Verb
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"
Verb
give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
Verb
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"
Verb
treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by liyng in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"
Verb
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
n.
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or
brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children;
especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person,
especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
n.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
trains, fosters, or the like.
n.
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander
when the captain is unfit for his place.
n.
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
n.
Either one of the nurse sharks.
v. t.
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
v. t.
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as
an infant.
v. t.
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid;
to attend upon.
v. t.
To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid
condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to
any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
v. t.
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
as, to nurse our national resources.
v. t.
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
Nurse
The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.3.
Nurse
Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.2.
By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?3.
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as:
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
Usage Examples
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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