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night nurse

noun

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


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There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.

A night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.

The night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.

The evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.

In the next ward (female) we had a few words with a motherly night-nurse.

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