sicknurse
English
Etymology
sick + nurse
Noun
sicknurse (plural sicknurses)
- A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell.
- 2004, Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France (page 82)
- Working as a sicknurse may have provided women with a supplementary income, and many women may have taken on the work since it required no recognised training.
- 2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present: Vol. 1 Health System
- But the law also did not define the duties of a sicknurse. However, the 1870 Commission determined, based on Dr. Shier's Inspection Records, "that the whole responsibility of the Hospital, except prescribing medicine or performing operations, falls upon the sicknurse" […]
- 2004, Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France (page 82)