WordNet
n. someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training [syn: nursing aide]
Usage examples of "nurse's aide".
The meal carts were long gone, but a kindly nurse's aide found me a cup of muscular cherry Jell-O and a packet of saltines.
Around the common will be the communal facilities: a bathhouse (daily bathing is usually compulsory), bakehouse (for breads and roasts), laundry, infirmary and lying-in clinic (with a trained nurse's aide and midwife), storehouse, and possibly a small church, mosque, or temple depending on the region.
There was apparently no nurse's aide on duty so she checked my vital signs herself.
She had the meal guy put it in for her when he came to get her supper tray and had the night shift nurse's aide take it out before she went to sleep.
A nurse's aide at St Agnes Hospital, only a few miles out from her neighborhood, her shift had been extended by the late arrival of her relief worker and her own unwillingness to leave her part of the floor unattended.
The nurse's aide stooped down to recover the five-dollar bill from the sidewalk and left without a word.