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district nurse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) a senior nurse leading teams of community nurses which provide health care to patients within their own homes.
Wikipedia
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 care, wound management, catheter and continence care and medication support. District nurses are able to prescribe medication to patients in a similar way to General Practitioner doctors, as Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribers under the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for Community Practitioners (Part XVIIB(i) of the Drug Tariff), depending on individual qualifications. They may be trained to assess patient's needs for equipment provision such as mobility and independent living aids, medical equipment such as specialist beds and mattresses, as well as guidance in applying for grants and welfare benefits. Their work involves both follow-up care for recently discharged hospital inpatients and longer term care for chronically ill patients who may be referred by many other services, as well as working collaboratively with general practitioners in preventing unnecessary or avoidable hospital admissions.
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.