(n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
(n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
(n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
(n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(n.) The round of a ladder.
(n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
(n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
(n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
(n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(7) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(11) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(12) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(13) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(16) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(17) 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.
(18) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
(19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(20) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
Wand
Definition:
(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
(n.) A staff of authority.
(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(2) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(3) The authors examined the relationship between the number of colonies picked with the Prompt Inoculation Wand and the hemacytometer and viable colony counts for each of six test organisms, including Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans.
(4) For the past nine years, Iraq ’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake.
(5) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(6) Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, said there was no "magic wand" that could be waved to break down trade barriers.
(7) Using a telemetry signal through a handheld programming wand, nine tracings were completely and clearly recorded for analysis.
(8) Now wave your own wand and grant them the living monthly wage – the £136 the Asia Floor Wage Alliance calculates is needed to support a family in India today (and bear in mind that the women are often the sole earners).
(9) The pump is noninvasively programmed using a hand-held telemetry wand to administer the drug in a continuous infusion, bolus, or bolus-delay mode.
(10) But I think it would be wrong to think that Bob will come in and work with Dan, James and Kyle and wave the magic wand.
(11) There's no magic wand - creating jobs won't simply solve the world's problems Read more It will, however, be subject to a performance agreement, the first of its kind, which will see Britain monitor the fund’s work and withhold 10% of the money if targets are not met.
(12) "There is no single magic wand, but the focus at the summit from the eurozone countries was what particularly the German government could secure.
(13) Light-wand-guided intubation has been reported to be an easily learned, atraumatic alternative to laryngoscopic or blind nasal intubation [6, 9].
(14) Everything here takes three times longer to do than it should and unless you have a magic wand you will have to be patient.
(15) The complete 1H-NMR assignments for horse ferrocytochrome c have been reported by Wand and colleagues and by our group at Oxford.
(16) "They look like wands and they are supposed to bend when they spot a bomb.
(17) It is an ultrasonic wand that, when activated inside any glass of beer – even from a bottle or can – froths up a draught-like head as if pumped from the guts of a country pub.
(18) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
(19) Rally organiser Justin Wand will be riding his 1926 Brough SS100: "It was designed in 1925 and guaranteed to have a top speed of 100 mph, an absolute phenomenom at a time when most cars pootled along at about 35 mph."
(20) Reforming the system can only be done if we work together, there are no magic wands.