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nurse
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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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This greatly facilitates the work of assistants and scrub nurses during tonsillectomy.
R supervisor arrived, she listened, then quietly remarked to the surgeon, "She's your scrub nurse today," turned and left the room.
For example, the operating room scrub nurse or technician and the anesthesia technician cannot set up the instruments table or anesthesia machine until the room is cleaned.
 
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