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)
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Direct care is defined as the hands-on care provided to residents by nurses or nurse aides, including feeding, bathing, dressing and medication administration.
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Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
The former nurse aide falsely claimed that Gypsy Rose suffered from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and more, and had her daughter confined to a wheelchair with a feeding tube.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024
Certified nurse assistants, often called nurse aides, are generally the most plentiful in a nursing home and help residents with basic needs like bathing, getting out of bed and eating.
—Jordan Rau, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
While the federal government sets no specific staffing requirements for nurse aides, the average home already provides 2.22 nurse aide hours a day, a ratio of about 1:11.
—Jordan Rau, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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
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Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
The former nurse aide falsely claimed that Gypsy Rose suffered from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and more, and had her daughter confined to a wheelchair with a feeding tube.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024
Certified nurse assistants, often called nurse aides, are generally the most plentiful in a nursing home and help residents with basic needs like bathing, getting out of bed and eating.
—Jordan Rau, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
While the federal government sets no specific staffing requirements for nurse aides, the average home already provides 2.22 nurse aide hours a day, a ratio of about 1:11.
—Jordan Rau, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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
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“Nurse aide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nurse%20aide. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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