Definitions for nursing
nurs·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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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.

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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 many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments; but there is evidence of international shortages of qualified nurses. Nurses collaborate with other healthcare providers such as physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and psychologists. Unlike nurse practitioners, nurses typically can not prescribe medications in the US. Nurse practitioners are nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. They practice independently in a variety of settings in more than half of the United States. Since 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.Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patient's family, and other team members that focuses on treating illness to improve quality of life. In the United Kingdom and the United States, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, diagnose health problems and prescribe the correct medications and other therapies, depending on particular state regulations. Nurses may help coordinate the patient care performed by other members of a multidisciplinary health care team such as therapists, medical practitioners, and dietitians. Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and independently as nursing professionals. In addition to providing care and support, nurses educate the public, and promote health and wellness.

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1. nursing

   Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities to help them attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses work in various medical settings such as hospitals, clinics, schools, and nursing homes, and they are responsible for tasks including the implementation of patient care plans, administration of medications, monitoring health conditions, and provision of emotional support to patients and their families. Nursing practice is based on knowledge, skills, critical thinking, and professional values.

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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 MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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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. Eric Hoffer:

   Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

2. Megan Mapes:

   Nursing homes all over the country are experiencing outbreaks due to the spread in the surrounding community and a lack of resources, what we now know is that prioritizing nursing homes in emergency situations is key, and we need to focus on a collaborative, not punitive, approach to help nursing homes respond to the pandemic.

3. charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62:

   Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

4. David Stevenson:

   Hearing from the relatives of people who have suffered abuse and neglect in nursing homes will be incredibly important and powerful, and also hearing from industry leaders and researchers and those who are engaged in nursing home oversight and accountability I think will be really important, the big challenge of abuse and neglect in nursing homes is, I think, it has been persistent over a number of years.

5. Patricia Davidson:

   It's a real indictment that this issue of gender disparity is prevalent in nursing where it's predominantly female, in Wall Street or Silicon Valley people can dismiss it because it's a culture that's not known to be accommodating – a male-dominated work environment where it's stacked against them – but when you see this inequity in nursing it speaks to a larger problem.

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