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student nurse

American  

noun

  1. a person who is training to be a nurse at a nursing school or hospital.


Etymology

Origin of student nurse

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

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A student nurse cleared of plotting to kidnap a baby from a neonatal ward said her experience of the justice system had left her "smashed".

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024

The student nurse even adopted one peahen who was disabled and could not survive alone.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024

Harriet, a student nurse from Hertfordshire, saw people selling tickets in the Facebook group she used that looked to be "100% a scam".

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

Carina Lewis, a student nurse from Treorchy, said she was petrified when the quake hit while she was in Marrakesh's Aqua Mirage hotel, and "everything started flying around".

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

When she was eighteen, inflamed by a biography of Florence Nightingale, she enrolled as a student nurse at St. Rose’s Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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