nurse
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"You wonder... am I going to end up with some nurse in a bed somewhere on dialysis or something like this? I have no idea."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
"It allows us to free up beds quickly and it's somewhere quieter more comfortable for patients to wait," senior nurse Sian Williams tells us.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Marie-Therese Tsesi, a 63-year-old nurse, has taken in five Ebola orphans at her modest mud-brick home near Mongbwalu hospital.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Paige Campbell became a nurse during the pandemic, wanting to make a difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Your mother, Karli,” Lizzie said, with a smile, “she is a most excellent nurse, and I am sure she is an excellent mother too, but she can be rather bossy sometimes. Am I right?”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
And so the nurses were absent from the area’s many nursing homes, and the third shifts at the auto parts manufacturing plants had basically gone dark.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
SNS posters plastered around cities show two hands clasped together in solidarity: the hands of doctors and nurses, farmers, construction workers, teachers and parents.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
They had access to doctors, nurses, dentists and hospitals.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
If a state decides to fund services such as tutoring, therapy, school lunches, busing and on-campus nurses, then faith-based schools are entitled to participate alongside nonsectarian counterparts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Even in life or death situations, doctors, nurses, and patients all responded to bad incentives.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The bird, affectionately nicknamed Kinky because of the kink in its broken wing, was nursed back to health by its two, unusually caring parents.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
She nursed a swollen ankle after falling in the evacuation centre.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
My husband had devotedly nursed me through my own illness, only to be hit by one far worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
Uma nursed the baby, tucked him into their furs, and softly sang him to sleep as the fire began to die down.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
And so the nurses were absent from the area’s many nursing homes, and the third shifts at the auto parts manufacturing plants had basically gone dark.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
You’d expect long faces nursing their drinks, but it’s often the opposite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ first guidelines on GLP-1s during pregnancy and lactation, released Friday, take a softer stance on the issue of using the drugs while nursing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
As well as paying for her nursing home fees, the money also goes towards a college fund for her great-grandchildren.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“He’s just an old man in a nursing home.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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