How to Use visiting nurse in a Sentence

visiting nurse

noun
  • Then the visiting nurse arrived at the home.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • With the help of visiting nurses and caregivers, my dad lived in his home for eight more years.
    Aimee Gindin, STAT, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Police and medics were called there last week by a visiting nurse who said two staff members had overdosed.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The woman was home with her ill husband, expecting the visiting nurse to come and care for him.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The visiting nurse had been talking about a different set of goals, such as a group home and a simple job.
    Dr. Daniela Lamas, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Her job as a visiting nurse takes her to some of the crummiest buildings in Greater Boston.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • Grayson, 63, worked for Elara Caring as a visiting nurse for 15 years.
    Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
  • That might include things like having a visiting nurse come to the home, oxygen in the home, and physical therapy.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Many states also have programs such as visiting nurse services to support postpartum women.
    Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • His bowel obstruction magically disappeared, and the visiting nurse came right over and removed the nasal tube.
    Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Mata needed several days of infusions and was able to get that care at home from a visiting nurse who also connected her with a doctor every morning.
    Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • For now, Judy is taking care of him in her Springfield home, with a hospital bed set up in her living room and ample help from visiting nurses and therapists.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, the hospital may discharge patients to an inpatient rehab facility or home with a visiting nurse service or other home health support.
    Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • During typical elections, poll workers known as special voting deputies visit nursing homes to distribute absentee ballots.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Sometimes babies can go home before they are weaned completely and a visiting nurse or family member without a history of substance abuse would administer the final doses of methadone.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018
  • According to the arrest warrant affidavit, a visiting nurse called the state Department of Children and Families after seeing the baby with a swollen and black and blue eye.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • These hospitals belong to a national collaborative of 20 pediatric cancer centers that aims to train families, visiting nurses and clinic staff on how to handle central lines.
    Melissa Bailey, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Seamon said the hospital has physical therapists that visit patients in their homes, as well as a visiting nurse program based out of Douglas that allows nurses from the Douglas rural health clinic to also visit patients in their homes.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the early 1980s Athella earned a Master's Degree in Gerontology, while working as a home health aide with visiting nurses, as well as in private duty.
    courant.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The democratic socialist campaigned on a pro-worker platform and struck a similar note while visiting nurses on the NewYork-Presbyterian picket line Monday.
    David R. Martin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026

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