(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(2) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(5) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(6) I had two friends who were fostered, and they went through this.
(7) The approach must create an organizational culture which fosters commitment to overall goals in the system's members.
(8) Endocrinological studies of the time to the 1st ovulatory cycle in early and late maturing girls in Finland (Apter and Vihko, 1983) are contrary to the Bangladeshi results reported by Foster in 1986.
(9) The reform had already been put to me by the excellent John Simmonds at British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) who – without much success – had been urging this reform for some years.
(10) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(11) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(12) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(13) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(14) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(15) These courses will provide foster carers with more understanding and new techniques to apply in their fostering.
(16) Six groups of primiparous females were tested for maternal behavior to foster pups presented 9-10 days after Cesarean delivery: three groups were permitted to interact with pups for a 2-h period 36 h after Cesarean delivery; and three groups were separated from pups until testing and were given no maternal experience.
(17) A patient was observed with limited adhesive arachnitis of nontuberculous origin producing Foster-Kennedy syndrome.
(18) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(19) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(20) We have also shown the influence of age, but not of parity, of foster mothers on DMBA-induced transmammary carcinogenesis in F1 individuals.
Nurse
Definition:
(v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster
(n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
(n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
(n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
(n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
(n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
(v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
(v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
(v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
(v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
(v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(2) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(5) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(6) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(8) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
(9) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(10) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
(11) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(12) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
(13) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(14) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(15) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
(16) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(19) Of the 88 evening-shift cardiac arrests during this time, one specific nurse (Nurse 14) was the care giver for 57 (65%).
(20) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.