Collocations for "nursing"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "nursing" in context.
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nurse
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [hospital, ward, clinic, school] nurse
- a [psychiatric, child, veterinary, dental, care] nurse
- a [registered, qualified, trainee] nurse
- an [emergency, experienced] nurse
- a [male, female, young] nurse
- [train, work, qualify] as a nurse
- is [studying, training] to be a nurse
- the nurse [checked, examined, comforted, helped] the patient
- call the nurse
- the patient [called, buzzed, rang] for the nurse
- the [doctors, surgeons] and nurses
- a nurse with [good, childish, calming] bedside manners
- the [kids, children] were playing doctors and nurses
- the [guests, women, men] came dressed as (naughty) nurses
- a nurse in [uniform, gloves, latex, stockings]
- a nurse's [uniform, assistant, salary]
- is a nurse practitioner
- nurse [bees, trees]
- nursed [her, herself] back to health
- nursed his [cold, broken arm, injury]
- spent [five years] nursing at a [hospital, clinic]
- nursed for [15] years
- was nursed back [from death, to life]
- nursed [to maturity, from infancy]
- nursed to sleep
- nursed with [care, compassion, empathy, love]
- the [baby, infant] is (still) nursing (at the breast)
- the [baby] [needs, wants] to nurse
- need to nurse the [baby]
- nurse a [hangover]
- nurse a [mighty, throbbing] hangover
- was nursing a [pint, beer, drink]
- nursing a [grudge, secret]
'nursing' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):