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Examples of scrub nurse in a Sentence
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Doctors weren’t wearing the Vision Pro themselves, but a scrub nurse reportedly had the VR goggles on during preparations for the surgeries and during the procedures.
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Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
Minka worked as a scrub nurse while modeling and acting on the side, getting her first big break on NBC's Friday Night Lights.
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Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
The other simulation had to do with whether a scrub nurse delivered the correct surgical tools to the operating room before the operation.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2021
William Stewart Halstead, the first surgeon-in-chief at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, was taken with his scrub nurse, Caroline Hampton.
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Jennifer Barger, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
Mary Dellinger, the scrub nurse to Lefrak's right, handed him scissors.
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oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
The scrub nurse’s eyes rest on the box for a long time.
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Longreads, 31 May 2018
Engineers at Purdue University are thinking even bolder—designing mechanical scrub nurses that respond to hand gestures during surgery.
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Pm Editors, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2012
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Word History
First Known Use
1927, in the meaning defined above
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“Scrub nurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrub%20nurse. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
Medical Definition
scrub nurse
noun
: a nurse who assists the surgeon in an operating room
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