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nurse

1. a person, usually a woman, who tends the sick, injured, or infirm
2. Zoology a worker in a colony of social insects that takes care of the larvae
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What does it mean when you dream about a nurse?

Dreaming of a nurse suggests a need to be taken care of and to be healed. It also sometimes indicates a healing is in progress. This dream also implies that strained or unpleasant conditions are being set aright.

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With most mothers going to office, nursemaids for infants and preschoolers are essential.
Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital analyzed data for children five years and younger treated in US emergency departments for nursemaid's elbow associated with consumer products and recreational activities from 1990 through 2011.
As his nursemaid (Exodus 2:9), Jochebed likely had opportunities to tell Moses the stories of Yahweh and the history of His people.
You don't even have to be a fan of dogs to enjoy this - there's a humour and charm to it as Paul turns full-on doggy nursemaid.
A new Irish nursemaid Tara (Anna Murphy) sparks Dickens's imagination and he visualises a seasonal tale of redemption, which unconsciously draws on his troubled past.
Wilson, an author and retired Navy captain, tells the story of the Bulloch women of Roswell, Georgia, during and after the Civil War, including three first ladies (Eleanor Roosevelt, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt), a famous Confederate spy (Rose O'Neal Greenhow), and the mother of a President Teddy Roosevelt (Martha Bulloch Roosevelt), as well as the family's nursemaid slave Nancy Jackson, to show the changing role of women during the era.
The difference between butcher and nursemaid is in the ant's preparation.
Strong willed and determined, Mary becomes a nursemaid to the daughters of the Acting Judge Advocate, a role that sees her roam around the infant colony.
Sebastian is still digging to find helpful background on his former valet, Oliver, who is on trial for a murder that he did not commit, while Michael is serious about pursuing a relationship with nursemaid Priya.
Reducing a nursemaid's elbow and painlessly extracting a huge cerumen plug with an ear curette are right at the top of my professional moments.
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