nursing
nursing
Definition
nurs·ing (nʉr′siŋ)
noun
- the duties or profession of a nurse
- the medical care given by a nurse
nursing
Synonyms
nursing
modif.
Acting as a nurse
fostering, cherishing, watching over, caring for, attending, devoting oneself to, bringing up; see also tending 2.Gaining nourishment by suckling
taking nourishment, sucking, milking, feeding, suckling.
nursing
Synonyms
nursing
n.
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.
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