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nursing Definition

nurs·ing (nʉrsiŋ)

noun

  1. the duties or profession of a nurse
  2. the medical care given by a nurse

nursing Synonyms

nursing

modif.

  1. Acting as a nurse

    fostering, cherishing, watching over, caring for, attending, devoting oneself to, bringing up; see also tending 2.

  2. Gaining nourishment by suckling

    taking nourishment, sucking, milking, feeding, suckling.

nursing Synonyms

nursing

n.

nurse's training, profession of a nurse, duties of a nurse, health care, healing, treating.

nursing Usage Examples

Preposition: as

  • profession: Various concepts of nursing as a profession and professional development are examined and this leads into the final area of collaborative care.

Converse of object

  • strengthen: Strengthening the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to health and health care.

Adjective modifier

  • psychiatric: He began his training at Buckland before psychiatric nursing at Guy's.
  • veterinary: I hoped that he could address GP concerns, particularly in veterinary nursing.
  • pediatric: To assist nurses to increase their knowledge and to enhance their contribution to pediatric nursing.
  • mental: Throughout its history, mental health nursing has been modified in response to changing circumstances.
  • neonatal: You are then forcing delegates to choose between papers on for instance family care or education for neonatal nursing.
  • surgical: The vascular unit offers experience in care of the high dependency patient, surgical nursing, rehabilitation and palliative care of the patient.

Modifies a noun

  • home: In 1945 Baillie Scott moved to a Brighton nursing home where he died on the 10 February, age 79.
  • care: Nursing Service Out of Hours The PCT provides nursing care in patients ' homes out of normal working hours.
  • profession: They would have to pull together to try to attract to the nursing profession very many more nurses.
  • staff: She also refuses to allow the nursing staff to wash her.
  • informatic: The final brief chapter attempts to place nursing informatics in context.
  • bra: At about 36 weeks you should be measured for a nursing bra.

Noun used with modifier

  • pre-registration: Future areas for research are in the introduction of problem based learning, manual handling and the teaching of numeracy to pre-registration nursing students.
  • district: District nurses should run the 24hr district nursing service.
  • post-registration: Post-registration nursing programs are constantly updated to meet Department of Health National Service Frameworks.
  • rheumatology: The aim of the unit is to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge in order to improve practice and patient outcomes with rheumatology nursing.
  • community: Your GP can refer you to a community nursing service.
  • specialist: Let us stand up and be heard as a unique specialist nursing profession.
nursing Quotes

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade.

—Arnold, Matthew