WordNet
n. someone who has completed the course of study (including hospital practice) at a nurses training school [syn: graduate nurse]
Usage examples of "trained nurse".
She was a big handsome young woman who ought not to have been a trained nurse at all, as she could not bear invalids and she was always making excuses to leave Colin to Martha or any one else who would take her place.
She was a trained nurse, but she told me her early and best education was here in the bayou with another woman who knew medicine.
He's a trained nurse so he has the medical expertise and he worked in the hospital so he has access, and if that isn't enough, he has a history of rape.
From that day on I was tempted, possessed, overwhelmed by the mystery of the trained nurse.
A trained nurse was not an asset he was likely to leave alone in the wilderness with a clutch of the dead and dying.