I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a student teacher/doctor/nurse (= someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse )
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Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.
charge nurse
dental nurse
district nurse
nurse a grievance (= think a lot or for a long time about the fact you have been treated unfairly )
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He was nursing a grievance about not being picked for the team.
nurse a grudge (= to have a grudge and keep finding reasons for it )
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She was still nursing a grudge against her grandfather.
nurse practitioner
nurse/harbour/cherish an ambition (= have it for a long time, especially secretly )
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He had nursed an ambition to become a writer for many years.
nursery nurse
nursing care
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The important thing is the quality of the nursing care.
nursing home
practical nurse
staff nurse
the nursing profession
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Mary had retired from the nursing profession.
wet nurse
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
male
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The mad boy screams as he chases the male nurses down the damp corridors.
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Camillus then founded the Servants of the Sick, a laity of male nurses .
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In the last two hours I discover that he is a pharmacist, a male nurse , and a killer.
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A male nurse in a white coat came out, and Jean sent him back for a wheelchair.
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Then I was inside the van with the male nurse in uniform.
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He is attended by Phil, a male nurse played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, an actor whose name always demands attention.
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Their male nurses , strong men, would carry them up the stairs and settle each one on to a cot.
old
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She bit her lip and turned away from the older nurse .
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The old nurse Eurycleia and her maids were summoned to cleanse the place and restore all to order.
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An old nurse hanged herself in one of the barns.
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A lightness enters the story at this point, as a woman comes to cheer the old nurse .
psychiatric
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And it says the decision not to assign a psychiatric nurse was made on medical and not financial grounds.
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We now have a new healthcare worker -- a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
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Why didn't she become a rape counsellor or a psychiatric nurse ?
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A psychiatric nurse I talked to in Sheffield works twenty-eight hours and takes home £51 to keep herself and two children.
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It is staffed by a team of community psychiatric nurses and a team of social workers together with psychiatrists approved under the Act.
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She was also fitted with a hearing-aid and conciliation with the neighbours was engineered by a community psychiatric nurse .
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Though he had been a psychiatric nurse Bob attached more value to medication and group therapy than to dream interpretation.
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It would also lead to a better use of the skills of social workers, psychiatric nurses , physicians, and psychiatrists.
qualified
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A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters.
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We are told that there are 28,000 qualified district nurses and health visitors.
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The event gives nurse managers, qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors chance to present their achievements.
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In an ideal world every qualified nurse would have the chance to further her professional education in this way.
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Mrs Ferrari employed Withers after she'd been recruited by a child minding agency by pretending she was a qualified maternity nurse .
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Two thirds of nurses who reported staffing levels had been changed believed the amount of qualified nurses employed had been reduced.
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The number and variety of specialties open to qualified nurses is wide, and probably has no equal in any other profession.
senior
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A senior nurse was also present all the time.
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The more senior nurse can also support the junior in difficult situations because of her own recent experience.
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The senior nurse will ensure that the learner is checking and giving drugs in the correct way.
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The senior nurse should participate in the teaching of students in the unit.
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The senior nurse may also allocate time for individual teaching of learners, or for group tutorial sessions.
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Under this system, junior and senior nurses work closely together in the care of a group of patients.
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All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years, according to senior nurse advocates.
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Aren't there three of you in Marcus tonight, and one a senior staff nurse ?
specialist
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However specialist nurses were provided in certain districts and there was a feeling that it was a better system.
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A specialist nurse would be an ideal contact.
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Another type of specialist nurse deals solely with patients who have had a mastectomy.
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In London we have a team of 4 specialist nurses backed up by 2 doctors.
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Opportunities for the development of clinical and managerial skills, with a clearer role for the specialist nurse practitioner and adviser.
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Special interest groups include chest clinic nurses , coronary heart disease specialist nurses and tuberculosis visitors.
trained
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Even the trained nurses who have gone out there weren't prepared for what they saw.
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Louisa Twining campaigned ceaselessly for trained nurses and matrons.
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Most of the technicians are either members of the Institute of Technical Venereology, or trained nurses , or both.
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Parents of cases and controls were interviewed by a trained nurse interviewer using a structured questionnaire.
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But she recognized that the most urgent problem in the countryside was the lack of trained district nurses .
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As discussed earlier in the chapter, there are increasing opportunities for continuing education for trained nurses .
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A trained psychiatric nurse , he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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Other courses have developed on an adhoc basis to meet the learning requirements of trained nurses .
young
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The young nurses were very kind and would kiss and cuddle her.
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He may marry his young nurse .
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Killed by kindness Simon Trump A YOUNG nurse died because doctors tried to save her good looks, an inquest heard yesterday.
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And Lizzy Davis brings welcome warmth to her portrayal of a young nurse who is Vivian's only caring human connection.
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She's waiting for Tom to come in, the young nurse realised.
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She had complete confidence in the young nurse , although she found it very difficult to penetrate her reserve.
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A young nurse , in a trim pastel-pink uniform, comes in with coffee.
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Three other guests - one a young nurse - were also slashed.
■ NOUN
charge
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Senior nursing posts such as sister or charge nurse demand real commitment to teaching.
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Deciding to be her advocate, I went to the charge nurse on the floor and reported the situation.
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Bob recalls his first days as a charge nurse in the 1950s in a long-stay ward for elderly people.
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The charge nurse and the nursing supervisor are the ones to talk to if there is any problem with personal care.
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His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa's then deputy charge nurse , Karen Spinner.
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For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse , nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.
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As a retired hospital charge nurse I respect the men and women of the emergency services.
district
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She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse .
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He and his wife, Carole, a district nurse , have two young sons.
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The services included midwives, health visitors, district nurses and various clinics.
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The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre.
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Astonishingly, they both work full time, Jenny as a district nurse , Michael a doctor.
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Using a person outside the family circle, such as the district nurse , is positively the last resort.
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What do older people know about community nursing services? District nurses are well known.
education
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The size of commercially produced models for nurse education may be life size or greater.
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Your local director of nurse education will hold a copy, and your local nursing library should have one on file.
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Table 6.1 offers examples of experiential learning activities used in nurse education .
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In keeping with this approach, educational methods in nurse education are increasingly moving towards a student-centred, negotiated approach to learning.
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Very little research has been carried out on teaching methods and the effectiveness of learning in nurse education .
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Liaison with the department of nurse education and clinical nurse managers should provide a source of clinical material.
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Both of these types of knowledge have traditionally been included in nurse education programmes.
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There can be little doubt about the need for the clear formal statement of the aims of nurse education .
nursery
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These take children only from the age of 3, and are staffed not by nursery nurses but by trained teachers.
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How nursery nurses and other students choose to use this knowledge is another matter entirely.
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We share the annexe base with nursery nurse students and staff.
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There are three full-time workers -a counsellor, a teacher, and a nursery nurse .
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He said Darlington College of Technology already provided one of the best nursery nurse courses in the country.
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A Labour Government would help nursery nurses progress after qualifying.
practitioner
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Visions of the nurse practitioner of the future are ambitious and exciting.
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We now have a new healthcare worker -- a psychiatric nurse practitioner .
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Opportunities for the development of clinical and managerial skills, with a clearer role for the specialist nurse practitioner and adviser.
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Thompson is an obstetrics-gynecology nurse practitioner at Central Texas Planned Parenthood.
school
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By lunchtime she was distinctly unwell and the school nurse told her she had a temperature and sent her home.
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So when Casey started public school , first grade, the school nurse had to give him his second dose.
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In one case, a London school nurse recruited young boys who were then sexually abused and filmed.
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Since Valerie sent no more Ritalin to the school nurse , the school knew Casey was no longer on it.
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A survey of 151 school nurses showed that nearly two - thirds felt cut were undermining their quality of care.
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You invariably find a teacher, social worker or school nurse who has already got concerns about the child.
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With the support of school nurses she presented the public with a fait accompli.
student
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During the three-year course for registration, the student nurse spends four-fifths of her time on clinical work.
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The Big Nurse comes into the day room with her covey of student nurses and her basket of notes.
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I share an apartment with two others a student nurse and a sometime artist.
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She and a student nurse were lifting a six-foot patient out of bed.
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The staff worked as a team, with even student nurses and orderlies involved in the conferences about patients.
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The next day another student nurse died.
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She said she could not ask the students nurses to do it.
■ VERB
ask
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I've asked the nurse to ring my girlfriends too.
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We checked the bureau, the closets, the bathroom; we asked the nurses .
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She asks the nurse if her husband has left.
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This 3 is being rich in Fort Worth, asking payment from a nurse for used clothing.
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I asked the nurse on duty about the day he died.
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I immediately asked the nurses who had died, and was told Mr Peck.
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She said she could not ask the students nurses to do it.
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He started to ask Flora, the nurse , for a relief massage.
help
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Such direct experience helps the nurse to develop sensitivity and self-awareness.
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Janet helps the nurses , who have to tie the man down to restrain him.
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Knowledge of social problems will help a nurse to plan for discharge.
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As the infant develops, the parents gain much by assisting with the observations and helping the nurse develop the care plan.
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Using this to illustrate management principles may help clinical nurses to question, understand and adapt constructively to these changes.
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The Bill will also help district nurses and health visitors.
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Whether you need medical or nursing advice or practical support in the home we can help .
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A Labour Government would help nursery nurses progress after qualifying.
register
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She trained as a state registered and registered mental nurse before moving into community development with a voluntary organisation.
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Nursing service administrators are usually chosen from among supervisory registered nurses with administrative abilities and a graduate degree in nursing administration.
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A registered nurse once. recorded her flyte with the sanatorium's young priest.
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As hospitals employ fewer registered nurses , nursing is losing some of its luster as a profession.
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There was Liz, the baby of the family, who grew up to be a registered nurse .
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Jones, a registered nurse , began working as a center volunteer in 1983 and became director of operations in 1989.
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Prices range from about $ 100 a shift for an aide to about $ 350 a shift for a registered nurse .
train
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In 1879 the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association was founded to train and supply nurses , and she became secretary.
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Alone with the children, Martha, a trained nurse , monitored their illnesses.
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It was an added bonus that his wife had trained as a nurse .
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When she got finished crying, which took a long time, she went back to school to train as a nurse .
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Some still by that date did not have trained nurses but employed untrained workhouse inmates.
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One even began to pay family members, trained by nurses , to provide care at home.
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By then, Odette was training to be a nurse at a hospital in Chelmsford.
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This eulogy was designed as a recruiting appeal for women to train as hospital nurses .
work
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Louise, who worked as a nurse , was not able to come that afternoon, she remembered.
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Nevertheless, after she started working as a nurse , she began studying in her off hours with a voice teacher.
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She works as a psychiatric nurse in a local hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I asked the nurse what the problem was.
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Josephine is a registered nurse .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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Economics of nurse training Investigator: K Hartley Nurses are the most expensive single resource in the hospital sector.
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Matron and some of the nurses were standing by.
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Only a Sister in her sixties, and two staff nurses were on duty in reception.
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Registered nurses are doing what only Nurse Practitioners used to do.
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She asks the nurse if her husband has left.
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The average age of nurses is now over 45.
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Their male nurses, strong men, would carry them up the stairs and settle each one on to a cot.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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He falls into a fever, and is nursed back to health by the devoted Joe.
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Some of them were skinny, he said, because people had given him sick animals to nurse back to health.
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It is then Pip falls ill and is nursed back to good health by the good-natured health.
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There he was gradually nursed back to health, but another eight years passed before he became champion again.
home
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She will soon have to go to a nursing home .
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If so, how long do you have to be in a nursing home before it begins?
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Visitation: One hour before services in the nursing home .
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Over the next hour they prayed outside an underfunded nursing home , a struggling social services agency and a crack den.
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Aiello owned Lincoln Care Center, a northern California nursing home .
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Grabbing the phone book, he leafed through, looking for the number of the nursing home .
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I imagine he would prefer to go out chasing after death rather than waiting passively for it in a nursing home .
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Then he goes into a nursing home where everything is regimented and prescribed.
still
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But as the robots we hoped for, they are dumb, blind, and still nursing the wall plug.
■ NOUN
ambition
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More crucial, in the president's eyes, is the fact that Se guin may be nursing other ambitions .
baby
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Rosa was sitting in a white cane chair by the window, nursing a baby in her arms.
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Farther along, a young black haired woman in a pink blouse nursed a baby in the shade.
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That night, in the connubial bedroom, she sat up against a stack of pillows, nursing the baby .
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One button, my grandmother used to say, made things easier when you were nursing babies .
care
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Planning individualised nursing care based on nursing models and the nursing process.
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And it establishes care trusts and sets out legislation on long-term care excluding nursing care from community care services.
charge
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The charge nurse and the nursing supervisor are the ones to talk to if there is any problem with personal care.
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For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse , nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.
child
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Mary MacArthur declared that women had no desire to keep working in factories while trying to nurse their children in crèches.
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Parents will become superfluous, the robots will nurse and play with children .
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The money raised will fund the training of a MacMillan nurse , who will nurse terminally ill children in their own homes.
doctor
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Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats, stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears.
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The small staff of doctors , nurses and psychotherapists is steeling itself for an expected 100 percent increase in clients next year.
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She paused now as Milton Berle ran around the operating room in his hospital johnny with the doctors and nurses chasing him.
grudge
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Since 1960, when they had been humiliated by the Summerdale police scandal, Chicago police had nursed a grudge .
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Dawson had been nursing a grudge even more intense than that of the others.
hospital
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The hospital was short on nurses .
injury
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Ronnie Carey: nursing an ankle injury which may force him to sit out Dungannon's opening All-Ireland League fixture.
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Ismail caught only three passes for 95 yards, while nursing a minor ankle injury .
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It could leave you nursing serious injuries .
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This time around, Dirk Pitt is nursing injuries sustained during a volcanic eruption.
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Lorna Payne acted as Director while Barbara Henry was nursing a bad injury .
patient
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Medicaid finances health care for poor families, many of the disabled and many elderly nursing home patients .
staff
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I had no idea how she would take it, but on past showing from other senior staff nurses I suspected badly.
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The small staff of doctors, nurses and psychotherapists is steeling itself for an expected 100 percent increase in clients next year.
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However, staff in residential and nursing homes generally receive little training in caring for the elderly.
student
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All the student nurses each had a small room with a desk and bed in the nurses' home.
woman
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The woman they described had nursed three or four people whom she loved, through a final illness.
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As one would expect, the labor force reflects the same predominance of women in nursing .
wound
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Somewhere the sturdy beggars nursed their wounds and cursed.
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An angel came down from heaven and nursed his wounds .
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In the meantime left-handed Trevor is nursing the wounds he claims the nurse didn't detect.
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Or central defender Teale who limped out of White Hart Lane, also nursing a wound above his left eye.
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Those who stay behind spend their time looking for jobs, playing office politics or simply nursing their wounds .
■ VERB
sit
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Striding away from the house, Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Irina had wanted to nurse him, but the doctors had sent her away.
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Martha nursed Ted herself.
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Penelope sat on the couch nursing a scotch and soda.
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Police believe the suspect nursed a grudge against women.
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Shaw has been nursing a sore ankle.
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She never nurses a grievance or plans revenge.
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The monks tended his wounds and nursed him back to health.
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Tony nursed his wife through her long illness without ever complaining.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Parents will become superfluous, the robots will nurse and play with children.
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So Demeter nursed Demophoon, the son that Metaneira had borne to wise Celeus.
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Somewhere the sturdy beggars nursed their wounds and cursed.
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The others need to nurse the insult.
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The youngest bees clean out the cells and nurse the brood.