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nurse

[nurs] / nɜrs /






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"More than anything, I want my return to mean something beyond the ice," said the intensive care nurse, who will partner Euan Kyle.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Carter, of Newport Beach, told the nurse that he had not, and that he could.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

When a nurse called to relay his results, she also suggested that he add a vitamin D supplement, though with much less urgency, Gawat recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

"I think it would be really exciting to see different kinds of costumes," the 38-year-old nurse told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 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

Nine-year-old Rowan, meanwhile, touts its medical advisory board, its clinical piercing standard, and the fact that it hires licensed nurses as piercers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Medicare pays a set dollar amount per day regardless of the number of visits a patient gets or whether the care is provided by nurses, aides or social workers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Instead of giving its doctors and nurses several seasons to evolve, the second season of “The Pitt” jumped 10 months into the future.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The findings provide early evidence that communication between neural circuits helps determine whether a worker bee nurses the queen, builds or guards the hive, or searches for food.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

A new law soon required all nurses and midwives to report deformed newborn babies.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Rhossi the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was found close to death in December 2023, and has been nursed back to health by staff at the Anglesey Sea Zoo.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Eleanor Nash, community ranger at Forestry England, said beaver kits were nursed for about two to three months.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Most of them have nursed injuries over the past couple of seasons.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2025

Around the clock she nursed her older sister, many nights getting no sleep at all, and so the cooking and washing and cleaning for the family fell to me.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

After a brief spell in a Parisian convent school—and several months spent nursing her paternal grandmother—Aurore was wed, at age 18, to Casimir Dudevant, a family friend nine years her senior.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I’d gotten a job at a nursing home.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Ultimately, he should be placed in a Medicaid nursing home.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

That shift matched the insects' normal progression from nursing larvae inside the nest to gathering food outside it.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

“He’s just an old man in a nursing home.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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