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nurse

[nurs] / nɜrs /






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Ruth Baker is an integrated care clinician - a registered nurse by training, who joined the ambulance service a year ago.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Strategic Response Partners was made up of towering firefighters, a former U.S. soldier, an expert lockpicker and a nurse from Boston, a team Saavedra calls the Magnificent Seven.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Top officials initially called Pretti, a nurse, a domestic terrorist.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

Cordido suffered lacerations and is being cared for by a neighbor who is a nurse and visits him daily.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

And that’s the only lucky thing about this whole situation: the nurse said either she could call an ambulance or I could call my parents, and instead she let me call Liz.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

“There are very few people who have seen what I’ve seen, other than the doctors and nurses who went with me. Journalists from the outside world aren’t allowed in,” he said.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2026

Equipped with beds, mannequins, a mock laboratory, and protective gear, the simulation centre prepares doctors, nurses, and clinicians for deployments in DRC, or from regional countries at risk from the spreading disease.

From Barron's Jul. 11, 2026

Trevlyn Bonaparte, a St. Lucia teacher, said hospital wards are sometimes staffed by two Cuban nurses for every 20 patients.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

We are supported by so many different doctors and nurses who are on set at all times.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

And here at nursery school, probably all the children were learning to be nurses, and that meant—oh, no...

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Even classical music listeners have their version in what may be the most legendary rivalry of all — the one that also-ran Italian composer Antonio Salieri supposedly nursed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

From Salon May 16, 2026

They had been nursed back to health after being sickened by a toxic algal bloom.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2025

He has been carefully nursed back to fitness on a diet of white-ball cricket and played for Sussex in the County Championship last week, taking one wicket in 18 overs.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

They don't need to: the pups will happily take turns being nursed from the same mammary gland, and this devoted and well-cared-for mother spends plenty of time with each of her many, many beloved children.

From Salon May 11, 2025

She felt the pulse of life in things and nursed it forth to make them grow.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Could home care or long-term care in a nursing facility cost you more than $20,000 a month?

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

The Education Department initially classified only 11 fields as professional, leaving out areas including nursing, physical therapy and education.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

The Royal College of Nursing's chief nursing officer, Prof Lynn Woolsey, said the rollout could mark "an important step in upgrading technology in the NHS" and "ease the administrative burden on nursing staff".

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

“He wanted to be at home, not in a strange bed somewhere. He didn’t want the whole atmosphere of the nursing home,” Linda says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

The mothers nursing their tiny infants, the females who gathered around to admire, the youngsters leaping over one another all created the bustle of a peaceful village.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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