Nursing
101Nursing unit — A nursing unit is an area in a hospital or other health care delivery setting where patients with similar needs are grouped to facilitate the delivery of care by health care professionals trained in that specialty. Typically a nurse manager or… …
102Nursing chair — A nursing chair is a low seated partially upholstered chair used at least since Victorian times for a woman s use while nursing an infant. This chair form was particularly popular in England and found primarily in upper class homes. The types of… …
103Nursing record — The nursing record forms part of the overall medical record for a patient and provides a formal record of the interaction between the nurse and the patient. It is also a form of communication between the nurse and other health… …
104nursing home — 1. a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill. 2. Chiefly Brit. a small private hospital; a small hospital owned by one person or a group of individuals and… …
105Nursing home — A residential facility for persons with chronic illness or disability, particularly older people who have mobility and eating problems. Also called a convalescent home, long term care facility. * * * A convalescent home or private facility for… …
106Nursing and Midwifery Council — NMC a statutory body that regulates the nursing and midwifery professions in the public interest. It replaced the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Visiting (UKCC) in April 2002. See: nurse …
107nursing officer — /ˈnɜsɪŋ ɒfəsə/ (say nersing ofuhsuh) noun 1. a member of the nursing unit of one of the branches of the Australian Defence Force. 2. (in Britain) someone with administrative responsibility for nursing staff or procedures in a hospital, etc …
108nursing anemia — noun or nursing sickness : an abnormality of ranch reared nursing mink that is marked by extreme emaciation, loss of appetite, and death and is apparently due to dietary deficiences superimposed on the strain of milk production …
109Nursing bottle — Bottle Bot tle, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. {Butt} a cask.] 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow… …
110nursing home — noun Date: 1896 a privately operated establishment providing maintenance and personal or nursing care for persons (as the aged or the chronically ill) who are unable to care for themselves properly …
