nurse
护士,护理人员,护士长,护理员
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- : a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- : a woman who has the general care of a child or children; dry nurse.
- : a woman employed to suckle an infant; wet nurse.
- : any fostering agency or influence.
- : Entomology. a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects.
- : Billiards. the act of maintaining the position of billiard balls in preparation for a carom.
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nursed, nurs·ing.
- : to tend or minister to in sickness, infirmity, etc.
- : to try to cure by taking care of oneself: to nurse a cold.
- : to look after carefully so as to promote growth, development, etc.; foster; cherish: to nurse one's meager talents.
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Inspectors, who are registered nurses, review a nursing home’s compliance history, observe operations, interview residents and staff and examine medical records.
She told investigators she overheard a nurse say she’d been quarantined because of her home ZIP code.
If the researchers spot unusual or worrying patterns, the patients are invited to speak with a nurse.
Perhaps they are college students on spring break, or hospital nurses, or people who touch their face all the time.
According to reports, doctors, nurses, and teachers will be given the shot first when enough supplies of the vaccine are ready in October, and it could reach the general public by January.
But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.
Consider Nurse-Family Partnership, one of the best examples of evidence in action.
At the hospital, I was told to wait, and was given some tea by a nurse.
I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.
The substitute nurse says to him in a stage whisper, “You know, the doctor says no vodka.”
There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed his picture.