Tra từ nurse - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

nurse [nurse nurses nursed nursing] noun, verb BrE [nɜːs] NAmE [nɜːrs]
noun
1. a person whose job is to take care of sick or injured people, usually in a hospital
•a qualified/registered nurse
•student nurses
•a male nurse
•a dental nurse (= one who helps a dentist)
•a psychiatric nurse (= one who works in a hospital for people with mental illnesses)
•Nurse Bennett
• Nurse, come quickly!
see also ↑charge nurse, ↑district nurse, ↑practical nurse, ↑registered nurse, ↑staff nurse
2. (also nurse·maid) (old-fashioned)(in the past) a woman or girl whose job was to take care of babies or small children in their own homes
see also ↑nursery nurse, ↑wet nurse

Word Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of ↑nourish, altered under the influence of the noun.

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Ways of talking about men and women
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Man and mankind have traditionally been used to mean ‘all men and women’. Many people now prefer to use humanity, the human race, human beings or people.Jobs
The suffix -ess in names of occupations such as actress, hostess and waitress shows that the person doing the job is a woman. Many people now avoid these. Instead you can use actor or host, (although actress and hostess are still very common) or a neutral word, such as server for waiter and waitress.
Neutral words like assistant, worker, person or officer are now often used instead of -man or -woman in the names of jobs. For example, you can use police officer instead of policeman or policewoman, and spokesperson instead of spokesman or spokeswoman. Neutral words are very common in newspapers, on television and radio and in official writing, in both BrE and NAmE.
When talking about jobs that are traditionally done by the other sex, some people say: a male secretary/nurse/model (NOT man) or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman: ▪ My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor. ◇ ▪ They have a male nanny for their kids. ◇ ▪ a female racing driver Pronouns
He used to be considered to cover both men and women: ▪ Everyone needs to feel he is loved. This is not now acceptable. Instead, after everybody, everyone, anybody, anyone, somebody, someone, etc. one of the plural pronouns they, them, and their is often used: ▪ Does everybody know what they want? ◇ ▪ Somebody’s left their coat here. ◇ ▪ I hope nobody’s forgotten to bring their passport with them.
Some people prefer to use he or she, his or her, or him or her in speech and writing: ▪ Everyone knows what’s best for him or herself. He/she or (s)he can also be used in writing: ▪ If in doubt, ask your doctor. He/she can give you more information. (You may find that some writers just use ‘she’.) These uses can seem awkward when they are used a lot. It is better to try to change the sentence, using a plural noun. Instead of saying: ▪ A baby cries when he or she is tired you can say ▪ Babies cry when they are tired.

Example Bank:
•the children's staff nurse
•a dental nurse
•a psychiatric nurse
•a qualified/registered nurse

verb
1. transitive ~ sb to care for sb who is ill/sick or injured
• He worked in a hospital for ten years nursing cancer patients.
•She nursed her daughter back to health.
•She nursed her husband devotedly through his last illness.
2. transitive ~ sth to take care of an injury or illness
•Several weeks after the match, he was still nursing a shoulder injury.
•You'd better go to bed and nurse that cold.
• (figurative)She was nursing her hurt pride.
3. transitive ~ sth (formal)to have a strong feeling or idea in your mind for a long time
Syn: ↑harbour
•to nurse an ambition/a grievance/a grudge
•She had been nursing a secret desire to see him again.
4. transitive ~ sth to give special care or attention to sb/sth
•to nurse tender young plants
•He nursed the car up the steep hill.
5. transitive ~ sb/sth to hold sb/sth carefully in your arms or close to your body
•He sat nursing his cup of coffee.
6. intransitive, transitive (of a woman or female animal)to feed a baby with milk from the breast
Syn: ↑suckle
•a nursing mother
•~ sb/sth The lioness is still nursing her cubs.
compare ↑breastfeed
7. intransitive (of a baby)to suck milk from its mother's breast
Syn: ↑suckle
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of ↑nourish, altered under the influence of the noun.

Collocations:
Illnesses
Becoming ill
catch a cold/an infectious disease/the flu/(BrE) flu/pneumonia/a virus/(informal) a bug
get (BrE) ill/(NAmE) sick/a disease/AIDS/breast cancer/a cold/the flu/(BrE) flu/a migraine
come down with a cold/the flu/(BrE) flu
contract a deadly disease/a serious illness/HIV/AIDS
be infected with a virus/a parasite/HIV
develop cancer/diabetes/a rash/an ulcer/symptoms of hepatitis
have a heart attack/a stroke
provoke/trigger/produce an allergic reaction
block/burst/rupture a blood vessel
damage/sever a nerve/an artery/a tendon
Being ill
feel (BrE) ill/sick/nauseous/queasy
be running (BrE) a temperature/(NAmE) a fever
have a head cold/diabetes/heart disease/lung cancer/a headache/(BrE) a high temperature/(NAmE) a fever
suffer from asthma/malnutrition/frequent headaches/bouts of depression/a mental disorder
be laid up with/ (BrE) be in bed with a cold/the flu/(BrE) flu/a migraine
nurse a cold/a headache/a hangover
battle/fight cancer/depression/addiction/alcoholism
Treatments
examine a patient
diagnose a condition/disease/disorder
be diagnosed with cancer/diabetes/schizophrenia
prescribe/be given/be on/take drugs/medicine/medication/pills/painkillers/antibiotics
treat sb for cancer/depression/shock
have/undergo an examination/an operation/surgery/a kidney transplant/therapy/chemotherapy/treatment for cancer
have/be given an injection/(BrE) a flu jab/(NAmE) a flu shot/a blood transfusion/a scan/an X-ray
cure a disease/an ailment/cancer/a headache/a patient
prevent the spread of disease/further outbreaks/damage to the lungs
be vaccinated against the flu/(BrE) flu/the measles/(BrE) measles/polio/smallpox
enhance/boost/confer/build immunity to a disease

Example Bank:
•He was nursed back to health by his devoted servant.
•He worked in a hospital for ten years, nursing cancer patients.

See also: ↑nursemaid