nurse

v. breast-feed; suckle; provide medical care; take care of; work as a nurse; use up slowly; dwell on, harbor (especially of jealousy or anger)

n. medical caretaker (especially in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor); caretaker of a baby or young children, nanny

Nurses are responsible—along with other health care professionals—for the treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings. Nurses may also be involved in medical and nursing research and perform a wide range of non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care.
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n. nanny, nursemaid, governess

(v. t.)
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
  

(v. t.)
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
  

(v. t.)
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
  

(v. t.)
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
  

(v. t.)
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
  

(v. t.)
To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
  

(n.)
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
  

(n.)
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
  

(n.)
Either one of the nurse sharks.
  

(n.)
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
  

(n.)
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
  

A person skilled in nursing. Also, to feed at the breast (suckle) as an infant.