nursing

/ (ˈnɜːsɪŋ) /

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noun

the practice or profession of caring for the sick and injured
(as modifier)a nursing home

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How to use nursing in a sentence

Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.
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They made it home, after which he did die, she nursing him to the end.
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“Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.
How Pope Francis Became the World’s BFF|Jason Berry|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She spent almost two years in a nursing home – two years of loneliness she would like to forget.
Care Providers Fight for $15 and a Union|Jasmin Almodovar, Shirley Thompson|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.
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A sour odor is normal for nursing infants, and is noted in mild diarrheas of older children.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Mrs. Maloney sat on a stump near her daughter, and busied herself energetically with alternate nursing and painting.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
But the young soldier did not die, although it was Tilly's careful nursing rather than the skill of the doctor that saved him.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
From a safe distance Beardsley adjusted his glasses and observed the frantic, scurrying techs, many of them nursing burned hands.
We're Friends, Now|Henry Hasse
One was of Anna, in her tiny house down the street, dragged with a nursing baby.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart

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