sicknurse

English

Etymology

sick +‎ nurse

Noun

sicknurse (plural sicknurses)

1. 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" […]

Verb

sicknurse (third-person singular simple present sicknurses, present participle sicknursing, simple past and past participle sicknursed)

1. To nurse; to take care of somebody who is unwell.