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n. A nurse who works on a psychiatric ward who is trained to work with patients with mental health needs.
Usage examples of "psychiatric nurse".
My wife was wonderfully understanding throughout the ensuing ordeal-she is a psychiatric nurse herself-though she finally insisted I seek professional help for my frustrating impotence.
Betty, who never attempted to impress anyone , was probably the most astute and well-educated psychiatric nurse whom Joshua had ever run across.
Karen (a psychiatric nurse herself) merely smiled, shook her head, and began to pack a lunch for my return trip to the city while I grabbed up unread reports and unfinished manuscripts and stuffed them into my briefcase.
Each resident is assigned a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse, and a rehab therapist.
His big brother Jim is an ex-Peace Corps guy and now a psychiatric nurse.
But I'm still a psychiatric nurse and I know all the professional cant.
He used the voice of some psychiatric nurse, mocking him with orders.
Hampstead that very evening, through another tumultuous rainstorm, arriving to a welcome from the psychiatric nurse in charge of Estabrook's case, a chatty young man called Maurice who lost his top lip when he smiled, which was often, and talked with an almost indiscreet enthusiasm about the state of his patient's mind.
She drove up to Hampstead that very evening, through another tumultuous rainstorm, arriving to a welcome from the psychiatric nurse in charge of Estabrook's case, a chatty young man called Maurice who lost his top lip when he smiled, which was often, and talked with an almost indiscreet enthusiasm about the state of his patient's mind.
She wore the sleeves of her Women's Army uniform perpetually rolled up to display chapped muscular forearms, and affected the coarse jocularity of a male psychiatric nurse.