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nurse

[nurs] / nɜrs /






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Sarada Simkhada, a senior nurse at Darent Valley Hospital in Kent, is also among the missing, according to a local councillor.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

"This is great that women will have somewhere to come to and perhaps have a bit more time with a specialist nurse who they can talk to," the deputy added.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

In 2023, a French nurse who had worked night shifts for 28 years and been exposed to radiation succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

That night, a nurse came into my room and said, “Why do you think that people say, ‘I love you with all of my heart?’

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

From the day she read that story, Daisy was bound and determined that when she grew up she was going to be a Red Cross nurse.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

An aging population needs more doctors, nurses and aides to care for the elderly.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

Just a few metres away, life was returning to the hospital, with patients admitted to wards while doctors and nurses bustled around the facility's maze-like corridors.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The broader problem with AI in rare-disease diagnosis is that existing tools are only as good as the data they are trained on, researchers, doctors and nurses said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The 27-page suit names the UC regents as defendants, along with physicians, nurses, clinical care partners and other officials who are identified as “Does 1-100.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

The charity hospital her father had rushed her mother to—the only one they could afford—was overcrowded, and the nurses and doctors there were exhausted and overwhelmed.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

She nursed a swollen ankle after falling in the evacuation centre.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

"We nursed her through six months of chemotherapy and she just died at the end," Mark said.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2026

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

No servant loved Telemakhos as she did, she who had nursed him in his infancy.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Also among the top tier is an ultracompetitive nursing degree, which translates to an annual income at about $125,000, according to an analysis released Friday by the HEA Group, a national education research firm.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Older adults who received a shingles vaccine after entering a skilled nursing facility were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the following four years, according to a new study.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

John Ford, director of the Elder Law Project at the Northeast Justice Center in Massachusetts, pointed out that when somebody goes into a nursing home, they are concerned about medical issues, not legal ones.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Skoczulek said that the facility's role was to provide Smith with the skilled nursing and long-term care services he required.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

All the doctors in San Francisco can offer Phineas are theories, useless drugs, and nursing instructions.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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