(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.
Nuzzle
Definition:
(v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
(v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
(v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
(v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
(v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
(v. t.) To loiter; to idle.
Example Sentences:
(1) One weekend, I saw two men of my age holding hands and nuzzling as they strolled among the stalls at Borough market.
(2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
(3) But he did his best to puncture an Italian defender, the deep red marks on Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder appearing to confirm the suspicion that the striker had leaned in for more than just a friendly nuzzle as the pair tussled off the ball in the 79th minute.
(4) A colleague said she had later seen the diary secretary "nuzzle" Mr Prescott's neck in the lift.
(5) They come into the room and one plays on the floor with the laundry basket, while the other climbs into the middle of the bed, nuzzles into his father's armpit. "
(6) Budd reckons marriage and children - Lisa, seven, and four-year-old twins Mikey and Azelle - are the best things she has done, the twins taking turns to nuzzle in her arms.
(7) Prior to assuming the upright crouching posture over their pups during nursing bouts, lactating rats typically engage in several oral behaviors, including nuzzling, licking and rearranging pups.
(8) At the end of 4 h dams were reunited with their calves in S + C and S + GnRH groups, while dams of calves in NS + C and NS + GnRH groups remained separated an additional 2 h. Cows were injected iv with saline or GnRH following the 4-h isolation period, 5 min after calves had begun suckling or nuzzling the udder.
(9) She also stopped by to nuzzle faces with Jay-Z as he performed his track Picasso Baby for six hours in homage to her 2010 performance, The Artist is Present , where she sat motionless in MoMA's atrium for 736 hours.
(10) The main behavioural events of the male (nuzzling and mounting) did not differ in the presence of receptive or non-receptive females.
(11) Plasma relaxin levels were measured in animals at different stages of lactation and related to the amount of nuzzling and suckling behavior exhibited by the piglets.
(12) The image that springs to mind is of John Cleese's response when Michael Palin's pet shop owner insists that were the Norwegian Blue not nailed to its perch "it would nuzzle up to those bars and 'voom'".
(13) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
(14) But if that nuzzling cetacean on his right turned nasty, I think we all know who would come out on top.
(15) It is worth it – if nothing else for the cave's rare depiction of reindeer, a male nuzzling the face of a kneeling female, which is touching, deftly constructed and reveals not only the artistic skills of its creators but their considerable knowledge of animal behaviour and anatomy.
(16) Cabe, a watchdog ever fond of nuzzling the developers it was supposed to be watching, has been shrunk and further enfeebled.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Steve McCurry On one visit, I fell asleep under a tree and woke to the feeling of something nuzzling my leg.