district nurse

noun

1. (in Britain) a nurse employed within the National Health Service to attend patients in a particular area, usually by visiting them in their own homes

Example Sentences

The 61-year-old died on 25 May and his wife called a 24-hour district nurse helpline to ask for assistance.

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She was asked to contact a doctor, who sent out the district nurse.

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Mrs Keir worked as a ward sister and district nurse and lived in Llansteffan independently until just before her 100th birthday.

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Thompson's parents had both moved to East Ham in east London from Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation in the late 1940s, her father becoming a forklift driver and her mother a district nurse.

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In the streets around Craigmillar, district nurse Kaye Nicol makes calls to local housebound patients.

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