Definition of "nursing" []

• The profession of a nurse. (noun)
• The tasks or care of a nurse. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Once while reflecting on the nature of nursing against a background of notions about intersubjectivity drawn from experience and literature and testing them against my own real life experiences of nursing, I suddenly saw that _nursing itself is a particular form of human dialogue_."
• "A blog about nursing wouldn't be much good unless it was, you know, about * nursing*."
• "The truth is I lost my mom two months ago, a few days after we moved her up North in a medical van to be in a long-term care facility she hated the term nursing home near my brother's family."