Definitions for nursing
nurs·ing

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

1. nursing(noun)

   the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm

2. nursing(noun)

   the profession of a nurse

3. nursing, breast feeding(noun)

   nourishing at the breast

Wiktionary(1.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. nursing(Noun)

   breastfeeding

2. nursing(Noun)

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

   She went into nursing as a career.

3. nursing(Adjective)

   In the state of suckling young, lactating.

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

4. nursing(Adjective)

   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. Nursing(adj)

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

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Sister Jacquelyn McCarthy:

   When people come here, they start out in maybe the laundry and housekeeping. But while they're here, they are going to school, they become CNA's [ certified nursing assistants ] and then nurses. That's how it usually rolls for us.

2. Chris Baker:

   I think we've seen a lot of the negative stuff already, with people acting out against foreigners, and we'll get more of that, we've seen some impact of people not coming here - you know, a shortage of nursing, and soon a shortage of people picking vegetables and all those summer-type jobs that English people don't want to do.

3. Deborah Birx:

   He went into the nursing homes to proactively test, you can see what it did with the nursing home fatality rates. I mean, it's remarkable.

4. Velma Moody:

   That's where they go. And now these nursing homes are like a petri dish for the continued development of this virus that is killing us.

5. Mickey Atkins:

   Through the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Demonstration, Texas is also committed to allowing individuals to relocate from institutional settings, such as nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for an individual with an intellectual disability or related conditions (ICF/IID), into the community without first registering on an interest list.

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