nurse aide

noun

variants or nurse's aide

plural nurse aides or nurse's aides

: a health-care worker usually trained and often certified to assist nurses (as in a hospital or nursing home) in providing basic patient care and services (such as bathing, feeding, or measuring vital signs of patients)

Examples of nurse aide in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ten of the providers didn’t conduct criminal background checks or nurse aide registry checks on staff prior to giving them a job, and three didn’t have licensed medical personnel on staff. —

Katherine Landergan, ajc, 20 Mar. 2023 Theresa Dunlap is a native Detroiter who grew up in a broken home, raised by a single mom who struggled to make ends meet as a nurse's aide in a convalescent home. —

Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2022 The mother of an Ohio middle schooler is suing her daughter's school district, alleging a nurse's aide strip searched the girl. —

Amanda Su, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2022 Hanna May Rhoden, 19, who worked as a nurse's aide and was mother to two young daughters. —

The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2022 Investigators obtained camera footage and identified the nurse's aide as Lavonda Moran, 48, officials said in a news release. —

Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022 Allen worked at the University of Chicago Hospital as a licensed practical nurse and then in private homes as a nurse's aide. —

Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 14 June 2022 Earlier this month, authorities discovered that a baby wh had been declared dead by a nurse's aide was still alive in a morgue. —

Babacar Dione, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022 Wanda Feltner Campbell worked as a nurse's aide for over 30 years before retiring. —

NBC News, 21 Nov. 2021 See More

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