female nurse
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffemaleandnurse
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female
adjective
uk/ˈfiː.meɪl/us/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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nurse
noun[C]
uk/nɜːs/us/nɝːs/
(the title given to) a person whose job is to care for people who are ill or injured, especially in ...
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(Definition offemaleandnursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, we cannot be sure that afemalenurseleading a practice would command the same level of support from all of the patients in different cultures.
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I suppose that it must be said that they had the decency to provide afemalenurse.
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It is interesting to consider that this word "nurse" (used for the moment to mean afemalenurse) has really two senses.
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In this hospital there was afemalenurseestablishment of 251.
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It was his idea to introduce female nurses into the military hospitals (1-2).
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Interestingly, the relationship between male nurses and other men was not markedly different from that between female nurses and other females.
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There were only 25 female nurses with a variety of qualifications, experience and time in post.
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By contrast, the rate among elderly female nurses was equal to that in the general population, but higher among nurses below the age of 60 years.
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