0 (the title given to) a person whose job is to care for people who are ill or injured, especially in a hospital:
He worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.
Nurse Millard will be with you shortly.
[ as form of address ] Thank you, Nurse.
2 When a woman nurses a baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts.
5 a person trained to care for people who are ill or not able to care for themselves because of injury or old age, and who may also help doctors in treating people:
The hospital has at least five nurses on duty in the pediatrics ward all the time.
6 to feed a baby from the breast, or of a baby, to drink from a woman’s breast:
8 to care for people who are sick or cannot care for themselves because of injury or old age:
The nurse bandaged my sprained ankle to keep the swelling down.
Some hospitals are so shorthanded that nurses and doctors are having to work 20-hour shifts.
In some situations, asthma-trained nurses may have had a more current asthma knowledge than their medical colleagues.
Women, resistance and care: an ethnographic study of nursing auxiliary work.
A chapter on the assessment of dementia emphasises psychological assessment but understates the importance of psychiatric mental-state examination, nursing assessment and social work assessment.
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(尤指醫院的)護士,護理人員, 保姆, 照顧…
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(尤指医院的)护士,护理人员, 保姆, 照顾…
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看護師, 看護する, (赤ん坊)に乳をやる…
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hemşire, bakmak, hemşirelik etmek…
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infirmier/-ière, nourrir, allaiter…
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