1
: the profession of a nurse
schools of nursing
2
: the duties of a nurse
proper nursing is difficult work
Examples of nursing in a Sentence
She has been employed in nursing for several years now.
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Medical schools and nursing programs face capacity limits, and the time required to train new professionals – often a decade for doctors – means that there aren’t any quick fixes.
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Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
Gibson was able to attend college for free through the Cadet Corp program, created by the United States government to teach and train nurses as a result of a nursing shortage during World War II.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
Computer science, engineering, and nursing are some of the highest-ROI master’s programs, with average ROIs of about $500,000, according to the foundation’s analysis.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
In this diaristic novella by a prolific translator of the Norwegian Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, a narrator records several weeks in the summer of 2016 spent exchanging stories with friends in New York, travelling to San Francisco, and nursing foot injuries.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
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Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
Gibson was able to attend college for free through the Cadet Corp program, created by the United States government to teach and train nurses as a result of a nursing shortage during World War II.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
Computer science, engineering, and nursing are some of the highest-ROI master’s programs, with average ROIs of about $500,000, according to the foundation’s analysis.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
In this diaristic novella by a prolific translator of the Norwegian Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, a narrator records several weeks in the summer of 2016 spent exchanging stories with friends in New York, travelling to San Francisco, and nursing foot injuries.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Nursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursing. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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