TRAINED NURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trained nurse mean? 

• TRAINED NURSE (noun)
  The noun TRAINED NURSE has 1 sense:

1. someone who has completed the course of study (including hospital practice) at a nurses training school

  Familiarity information: TRAINED NURSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAINED NURSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has completed the course of study (including hospital practice) at a nurses training school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

graduate nurse; trained nurse

Hypernyms ("trained nurse" is a kind of...):

nurse (one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician))

 Context examples 

Under ordinary circumstances, after all that I had undergone, I should have been fit for bed and a trained nurse.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Judge Scott's suggestion of a trained nurse was indignantly clamoured down by the girls, who themselves undertook the task.

(White Fang, by Jack London)