nurse

nurse (nurs)

1. one who is especially prepared in the scientific basis of nursing and who meets certain prescribed standards of education and clinical competence.

2. to provide services essential to or helpful in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and well-being.

3. to breast-feed an infant.

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clinical nurse specialist  a registered nurse with a high degree of knowledge, skill, and competence in a specialized area of nursing, and usually having a master's degree in nursing.

community nurse  in Great Britain, a public health nurse.

community health nurse  public health n.

district nurse  community n.

general duty nurse  a registered nurse, usually one who has not undergone training beyond the basic nursing program, who sees to the general nursing care of patients in a hospital or other health agency.

graduate nurse  a graduate of a school of nursing; often used to designate one who has not been registered or licensed.

licensed practical nurse  a graduate of a school of practical nursing whose qualifications have been examined by a state board of nursing and who has been legally authorized to practice as a licensed practical or vocational nurse (L.P.N. or L.V.N.), under supervision of a physician or registered nurse.

licensed vocational nurse  see licensed practical n.

nurse practitioner  a registered nurse with advanced education and clinical training within a specialty area.

private nurse , private duty nurse one who attends an individual patient, usually on a fee-for-service basis, and who may specialize in a specific class of diseases.

probationer nurse  a person who has entered a school of nursing and is under observation to determine fitness for the nursing profession; applied principally to nursing students enrolled in hospital schools of nursing.

public health nurse  an especially prepared registered nurse employed in a community agency to safeguard the health of persons in the community, giving care to the sick in their homes, promoting health and well-being by teaching families how to keep well, and assisting in programs for the prevention of disease.

Queen's nurse  in Great Britain, a district nurse who has been trained at or in accordance with the regulations of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses.

registered nurse  a graduate nurse who has been legally authorized (registered) to practice after examination by a state board of nurse examiners or similar regulatory authority, and who is legally entitled to use the designation RN.

scrub nurse  one who directly assists the surgeon in the operating room.

nurse specialist  clinical n. specialist.

visiting nurse  public health n.

wet nurse  a woman who breast-feeds the infant of another.

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nurse (nûrs)

n.

1. A person trained to care for the sick or disabled, especially one educated in the scientific basis of human response to health problems and trained to assist a physician.

2. A wet nurse.

3. An individual who cares for an infant or young child.

v.

1. To serve as a nurse.

2. To provide or take nourishment from the breast; suckle.

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nurse

Etymology: L, nutrix

1  n, a person educated and licensed in the practice of nursing; one who is concerned with "the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems" (American Nurses Association). The practice of the nurse includes data collection, diagnosis, planning, treatment, and evaluation within the framework of the nurse's singular concern with the patient's response to the problem, rather than to the problem itself. The concerns of the nurse are thus broader and less discrete and circumscribed than the traditional concerns of medicine. In a cooperative participatory relationship with the client or patient, the nurse acts to promote, maintain, or restore the health of the person; wellness is the goal. A collegial collaborative relationship with other health professionals who share a mission and a common database furthers the practice of nursing. Guided by humanitarian, ethical principles, the nurse practices in a personal, nurturing, and protective manner that promotes health in all ways. The nurse may be a generalist or a specialist and, as a professional, is ethically and legally accountable for the nursing activities performed and for the actions of others to whom the nurse has delegated responsibility.

2  v, to provide nursing care. See also five-step nursing process, nursing, registered nurse.

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nurse,

n 1. a person educated and licensed in the practice of nursing; one who is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems.
v 2. to breastfeed an infant.

nurse anesthetist,

n a registered nurse qualified by advanced training in an accredited program in the specialty of nurse anesthesia to manage the care of the patient during the administration of anesthesia in selected surgical situations.

nurse practitioner,

n a nurse who, by advanced education and clinical experience in a specialized area of nursing practice, has acquired expert knowledge and skill in a special branch of practice. The nurse practitioner acts as a nurse clinician, functioning independently within standing orders or protocols and collaborating with associates to implement a plan of care.

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nurse

see animal nurses.

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nurse

noun A person who has received the appropriate–determined by jurisdiction–education and training in the discipline of nursing; a person specially trained to provide services essential to or helpful in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and well-being; a person skilled in nursing. See Advanced practice nurse, Charge nurse, Circulating nurse, Medication nurse, Registered nurse, Scrub nurse, Traveling nurse verb 1. To breast-feed 2. To care for an infirm individual

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