Definitions for nursing
nurs·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. nursingnoun

   the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm

2. nursingnoun

   the profession of a nurse

3. nursing, breast feedingnoun

   nourishing at the breast

Wiktionary(1.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. nursingnoun

   breastfeeding

2. nursingnoun

   The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

   She went into nursing as a career.

3. nursingadjective

   In the state of suckling young, lactating.

   The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.

4. nursingadjective

   Referring to nurses.

   The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Nursing

   of Nurse

2. Nursingadjective

   supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant

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1. Nursing

   Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has come to shape the historic public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurses are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings depending on training level. In the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing. The American Nurses Association states nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Nursing

   The field of nursing care concerned with the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health.

Matched Categories

1. • Care
   • Health Profession

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nursing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4610

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nursing' in Nouns Frequency: #2536

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nursing' in Adjectives Frequency: #901

Anagrams for nursing »

1. unrings

How to pronounce nursing?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nursing in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nursing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nursing in a Sentence

1. Mark Parkinson:

   HHS has announced distribution plans for 80 percent of the $175 billion Provider Relief Fund created by the CARES Act. Health care providers, including nursing homes, will need additional resources to continue its response to the COVID pandemic heading into the cold and flu season, which provides new challenges, cOVID-19 disproportionately impacts the elderly many of whom already have preexisting health conditions and chronic diseases and the dedicated staff who care for them.

2. Sarah Babcock:

   At least at the Parish level, there's no teeth in this, the parishes do not have any oversight or regulatory authority for nursing homes.

3. Kameshwar Kumar:

   We admitted him wherever we found a bed. It was a nursing home but wasn’t functioning like one. Patients were getting their own oxygen, the hospital was rationing its oxygen supply to patients and my brother was sinking so we were forced to rush him to another hospital but he didn’t make it.

4. Candler Hospital in Savannah:

   Today should have been a day of celebration for this bright group of students, it was their last day of clinical rotations at St. Joseph's / Candler in their first year of nursing school.

5. Health Minister Olivier Veran:

   We need to go further to protect the vulnerable in nursing homes.

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