WordNet
n. a nurse who is paid to visit the sick in their homes
Usage examples of "visiting nurse".
We usually leave that door open for the cleaning woman and the visiting nurse.
Unfortunately he was confined to bed by an attack of gout, and irritation rapidly boiled into rage, especially as his visiting nurse, who had retired to the kitchen for a recuperative smoke, ignored all his cries for help.
So she put on a starched white blouse, a dreary black skirt, and a rather ridiculous boater and spent the summer assisting a visiting nurse in the Tenth Ward.
He got back by the time the visiting nurse showed up for her shift.
She was a city visiting nurse and wore a snappy blue cape and hat.
And like the visiting nurse she parked a cloth bag that she was carrying atop the tall chest of drawers, and looked about her for a place to settle.
I suggested a visiting nurse, but she didn't think that was funny.