How to Use visiting nurse in a Sentence

visiting nurse

noun
  • With the help of visiting nurses and caregivers, my dad lived in his home for eight more years.
    Aimee Gindin, STAT, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The visiting nurse had been talking about a different set of goals, such as a group home and a simple job.
    Dr. Daniela Lamas, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Her job as a visiting nurse takes her to some of the crummiest buildings in Greater Boston.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • Police and medics were called there last week by a visiting nurse who said two staff members had overdosed.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • That might include things like having a visiting nurse come to the home, oxygen in the home, and physical therapy.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
  • According to the arrest warrant affidavit, a visiting nurse called the state Department of Children and Families after seeing the baby with a swollen and black and blue eye.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In the early 1980s Athella earned a Master's Degree in Gerontology, while working as a home health aide with visiting nurses, as well as in private duty.
    courant.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Mata needed several days of infusions and was able to get that care at home from a visiting nurse who also connected her with a doctor every morning.
    Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Kai was acting out these maneuvers when he was interrupted by a visiting nurse bearing bags of yellow fluid, some kind of vitamin I.V. drip.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Sometimes babies can go home before they are weaned completely and a visiting nurse or family member without a history of substance abuse would administer the final doses of methadone.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018
  • Seamon said the hospital has physical therapists that visit patients in their homes, as well as a visiting nurse program based out of Douglas that allows nurses from the Douglas rural health clinic to also visit patients in their homes.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • These hospitals belong to a national collaborative of 20 pediatric cancer centers that aims to train families, visiting nurses and clinic staff on how to handle central lines.
    Melissa Bailey, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
  • During typical elections, poll workers known as special voting deputies visit nursing homes to distribute absentee ballots.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2020

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