2. Verb. (third-person singular of nurse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nurses
1. nurse [v] - See also: nurse
Medical Definition of Nurses
1. Professionals qualified by education at an accredited school of nursing and licensed by state law to practice nursing. They provide services to patients requiring assistance in recovering or maintaining their physical or mental health. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurses
Literary usage of Nurses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"Supervising nurses class includes all trained nurses not in charge of wards.
It includes those in charge of the schools for nursing; instructors; ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1894)
"It is into these hospitals that the graduate nurses go, and where they prove to
the people that trained nurses are many times more valuable than the ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"Marriage Rate of nurses Training School on the same incomplete basis, since the
complete rate has already been presented above (34%). ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"nurses and nursing. American nurse to train the girls of ... Twenty years of it
in the Henry Street nurses' settlement. il. Survey. 21:606-8. F. , 14, '14. ..."
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