nurse-practitioner
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nurse-practitioner
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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Ann Hirschman, a licensed nurse-practitioner and the self-proclaimed “grandmother of street medics,” has been active at demonstrations since the 1960s.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2020
One that did said that they heard hospitals were focusing on a nurse-practitioner led ER-staffing model, so they were holding off on physician hires for now.
From Slate • May 1, 2020
Sister Bernie is a nurse-practitioner who first persuaded Stan Brock to bring RAM to Virginia back in 1999.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2016
At the end of his final year of trading, he is offered a $3.6-million bonus—“more,” he writes, “than my mom, a nurse-practitioner midwife, had earned in her entire life.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2016
A few days later she took me to a nurse-practitioner, who listened to my yearnings for my mother.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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