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night nurse

British  

noun

  1. a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The medical team on trial includes a neurosurgeon, a doctor and a night nurse.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

We were supposed to use a gift of a night nurse for two weeks, but couldn’t do it because of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

"My night nurse is Rose and I love her because she takes care of me and that’s my moms name," tweeted Swanson.

From Fox News ● Nov. 2, 2021

For months, Gerry will be imprisoned in that wind-whipped, isolated penthouse, his only constant visitors Victoria and a dull night nurse named Aileen.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2021

And it would be even funnier if he interrupted that night nurse and said, “Miss Windbag, you’re rotten, rotten to the core. I just thought I ought to tell you.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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