visiting nurse


noun
  1. a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.

Origin of visiting nurse

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use visiting nurse in a sentence

  • How could the county agricultural agent or the visiting nurse cover a county as effectively as they now do without the automobile?

    The Farmer and His Community | Dwight Sanderson
  • And here is where a visiting nurse in every community can become an institution of inestimable value.

  • The club maintains, out of its fund, a medicine chest at the school, which is used by the visiting nurse.

    The New Education | Scott Nearing

British Dictionary definitions for visiting nurse

visiting nurse

noun
  1. (in the US) a registered nurse employed by a community, hospital, etc, to visit and nurse the sick in their homes or to promote public health

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