Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
charge nurse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a retired hospital charge nurse I respect the men and women of the emergency services.
▪ Bob recalls his first days as a charge nurse in the 1950s in a long-stay ward for elderly people.
▪ Deciding to be her advocate, I went to the charge nurse on the floor and reported the situation.
▪ For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.
▪ His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa's then deputy charge nurse, Karen Spinner.
▪ Senior nursing posts such as sister or charge nurse demand real commitment to teaching.
▪ The charge nurse and the nursing supervisor are the ones to talk to if there is any problem with personal care.
Wiktionary
charge nurse
n. A supervisory nurse, usually assigned for a shift.
Usage examples of "charge nurse".
The charge nurse was watching him like a hawk and one of the uniformed security men was still there, leafing through a People magazine.
I felt frightened by Charge Nurse Leethveeschi, but curious as well.
He walked through the security staff with a nod, changed into scrubs, came into the emergency room from the back, and asked the charge nurse where Quinn was.
He could tell by the charge nurse, who was wearing a smock covered with clowns and bunches of balloons.
The Lady Who Eats Metal Objects just swallowed the charge nurse's car keys and you gotta get her to throw 'em back up.
She's charge nurse for her shift in the ER now, and I'm rotating to ER, too, next week.