Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The profession of a nurse.
- n. The tasks or care of a nurse.
Wiktionary
- adj. In the state of suckling young, lactating.
- adj. Referring to nurses.
- n. breastfeeding
- n. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
- v. present participle of nurse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast
WordNet 3.0
- n. the profession of a nurse
- n. nourishing at the breast
- n. the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm
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_.”
“A blog about nursing wouldn't be much good unless it was, you know, about * nursing*.”
“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.”
“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.”
“She is set against moving to Green Grove retirement community, which she describes as a nursing home.”
“We don't want it to grow into what we call nursing-home grass.”
“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.”
“Promotes and protects residents 'rights in nursing homes.”
“Clara's expertise in nursing, women issues, pr, celebritiy/entertainment profiles/movie & product reviews”
“Alarmed – nursing is the ultimate comfort, and if she was rejecting the breast, there was surely something very wrong – I called Telehealth and described what was going on.”
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