Sicknurse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sicknurse is a noun meaning A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell.
Meaning
A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell.
More Meanings
- To nurse; to take care of somebody who is unwell.
Example Sentences
Working as a sicknurse may have provided women with a supplementary income, and many women may have taken on the work since it required no recognised training.
But the law also did not define the duties of a sicknurse. However, the 1870 Commission determined, based on Dr. Shier's Inspection Records, "that the whole responsibility of the Hospital, except prescribing medicine or performing operations, falls upon the sicknurse" […]
Word Forms
- sicknurses
- sicknursing
- sicknursed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nursetender, nurseman, nurser, sickener, nurse, undernurse.
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