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district nurse
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Astonishingly, they both work full time, Jenny as a district nurse , Michael a doctor. ▪ He and his wife, Carole, a district nurse , have two young sons. ▪ She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly ...
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District Nurses are senior nurses in the United Kingdom 's National Health Service who manage care within the community, leading teams of community nurses and support workers, as well as visiting house-bound patients to provide advice and care such as palliative ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) a senior nurse leading teams of community nurses which provide health care to patients within their own homes.
Usage examples of district nurse.
I'm afraid I hadn't paid much attention to it at the time, because we had been having a lot of excitement in the village about our district nurse, and outside occurrences like an earthquake in India and a murder in Barnchester, although of course far more important really –.
The district nurse and the social worker look in once a week, but I do not know how we would cope if my nan didnt inspire so much affection in the people whose lives she has touched.
After training in the Exeter hospital Miss Brown became district nurse at this charmin' place.
Escorted by the social worker, the district nurse, the home help, the abrasive yet not ungentle niece, Letty is escorted down the unswept, grass-grown basement stairs into her own scarcely used front door that someone with a key has remembered to unbolt from inside for her return.
It tasted to him like the bitter tonic the district nurse had given him one spring.