Nurse

(tiers). The caretaker of an infant. Also, a person caring for the sick. N., Dry, one who does not suckle the infant. N., Hospital, one who cares for the sick in a hospital. N., Monthly, one who attends a woman in confinement. N., Probationer, in hospitals a probationer is one who has entered upon her career as a nurse, and is under observation to determine her fitne for the profe ion. N., Profe ional, one who devotes himself or herself to the care of the sick as a life-work or profe ion. N., Wet, one who suckles the infant. N.'s Contracture, Trou eau's term for tetany found in a ociation with debility following lactation.