Definition of Nursing. Meaning of Nursing. Synonyms of Nursing

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Definition of Nursing

Nursing
Nurse Nurse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing.] 1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. --Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden. 2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. ``To nurse the saplings tall.' --Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke. 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
Nursing
Nursing Nurs"ing, a. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

Meaning of Nursing from wikipedia

- Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health...
- Nursing management consists of the performance of the leadership functions of governance and decision-making within organizations employing nurses. It...
- up nursing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nursing is a healthcare profession. Nursing may also refer to: Breastfeeding, also known as "nursing" Wet...
- by a licensed Registered Nurse. Nursing ****essment is the first step in the nursing process. A section of the nursing ****essment may be delegated to certified...
- A nursing chair is a chair that's comfortable when nursing an infant. In Victorian times the nursing chair was a low seated partially upholstered chair...
- school known as a nursing school or college of nursing. Most countries offer nurse education courses that can be relevant to general nursing or to specialized...
- Nursing research is research that provides evidence used to support nursing practices. Nursing, as an evidence-based area of practice, has been developing...
- Holistic nursing is a way of treating and taking care of the patient as a whole body, which involves physical, social, environmental, psychological, cultural...
- A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual...
- professionalising nursing roles for women. In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas'...