: a health-care worker usually trained and often certified to assist nurses (as in a hospital or nursing home) in providing basic patient care and services (such as bathing, feeding, or measuring vital signs of patients)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebInvestigators obtained camera footage and identified the nurse's aide as Lavonda Moran, 48, officials said in a news release. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022 Allen worked at the University of Chicago Hospital as a licensed practical nurse and then in private homes as a nurse's aide. Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 14 June 2022 Earlier this month, authorities discovered that a baby wh had been declared dead by a nurse's aide was still alive in a morgue. Babacar Dione, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022 Wanda Feltner Campbell worked as a nurse's aide for over 30 years before retiring.NBC News, 21 Nov. 2021 His father was pressed into working for the occupying German forces, and his mother was a nurse's aide and homemaker.BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2021 The clinic employs a doctor, nurse, nurse's aide, pharmacist, community health worker, hygienist and two guards. Maya Miller, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021 On Monday, for example, the Times profiled Monica Alexis, an 83-year-old woman who had long worked as a nurse's aide, and died of the virus in a San Antonio hospital. David Bauder, ajc, 10 Mar. 2021 On Monday, for example, the Times profiled Monica Alexis, an 83-year-old woman who had long worked as a nurse's aide, and died of the virus in a San Antonio hospital. David Bauder, ajc, 10 Mar. 2021 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
nurse aide
noun
variants or nurse's aide
plural nurse aides or nurse's aides
: a health-care worker usually trained and often certified to assist nurses (as in a hospital or nursing home) in providing basic patient care and services (such as bathing, feeding, or measuring vital signs of patients)