night nurse
noun
a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
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How to use night nurse in a sentence
There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.
The Marriage of William Ashe | Mrs. Humphry WardA night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.
The Place of Dragons | William Le QueuxThe night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.
Basil | Wilkie CollinsThe evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.
The Notting Hill Mystery | Charles FelixIn the next ward (female) we had a few words with a motherly night-nurse.
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