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)

Examples of nurse aide in a Sentence

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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 Investigators obtained camera footage and identified the nurse's aide as Lavonda Moran, 48, officials said in a news release. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nurse aide was in 1917

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“Nurse aide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nurse%20aide. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

Medical Definition

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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