Nursing meaning

nûrsĭng
The medical care given by a nurse.
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Nursing is the work of taking care of someone who is sick or in need of care, or to assist a doctor or surgeon.

An example of nursing is one of the jobs common at a hospital.

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The profession of a nurse.
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The profession of a nurse.
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The tasks or care of a nurse.
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The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

She went into nursing as a career.

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The duties or profession of a nurse.
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Present participle of nurse.

The mother sat there nursing her baby.

verb
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Referring to nurses.

The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

adjective
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In the state of suckling young, lactating.

The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.

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Nursing is defined as feeding a baby breast milk.

An example of nursing is a mother giving a baby milk through her breast.

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The tasks or care of a nurse.
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Nursing Sentence Examples

  • Jeff's father is dead and his mother is in a nursing home.

  • Sonya and Natasha were nursing him.

  • Alex was sitting on the porch swing, nursing a cup of coffee the morning they arrived to work on the house.

  • Martha's father suffered a heart attack when she was in nursing school and her mom followed, from a broken heart, seven weeks later.

  • In Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium scientific nursing is in a backward state.

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