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.
- : to treat or handle with adroit care in order to further one's own interests: to nurse one's nest egg.
- : to use, consume, or dispense very slowly or carefully: He nursed the one drink all evening.
- : to keep steadily in mind or memory: He nursed a grudge against me all the rest of his life.
- : to suckle.
- : to feed and tend in infancy.
- : to bring up, train, or nurture.
- : to clasp or handle carefully or fondly: to nurse a plate of food on one's lap.
- : Billiards. to maintain the position of for a series of caroms.
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nursed, nurs·ing.
- : to suckle a child, especially one's own.
- : to suckle: The child did not nurse after he was three months old.
- : to act as nurse; tend the sick or infirm.
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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 nurse his picture.
Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"
Here he can inspect what he sees, say the reflection of the face of his mother or nurse, and compare it at once with the original.