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the one who catches every dropped ball while doctors take the bow
means a person trained to care for the sick, injured, or infirm, often working alongside doctors to monitor and tend patients.
from From Latin nutrire, 'to nourish, suckle, feed,' which gave Old French norrice and then Middle English nurse — originally a woman who breastfed and reared a child, a 'wet nurse.' The sense widened over centuries from feeding babies to tending the sick, but the root meaning lingers: a nurse is one who nourishes someone back to health. The same Latin stem feeds 'nutrition,' 'nutrient,' and 'nourish.'
- origin
- From Latin nutrire, to nourish or breastfeed
- most trusted
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- step count
- Often walk four-plus miles per shift indoors
- male nurses
- Once the norm before 19th-century gendering
- war roots
- Modern nursing forged in Crimea by Nightingale
florence nightingale — pioneer of modern nursing who reduced mortality in the crimean war from 42% to 2% between 1853-1856
clara barton — founded the american red cross in 1881 and served as a battlefield nurse during the american civil war
edith cavell — british nurse executed by germany in 1915 during world war i for helping allied soldiers escape