(in the UK) a nurse who visits and treats patients in their homes, operating in a specific area or in association with a particular general practice surgery or health centre.
（英国）巡回服务的护士
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His care package includes the daily visit from a district nurse but her good work is simply not enough for his needs.
A late 1930's photograph of the log cabin where her grandmother was posted as a district nurse suggests rough working conditions.
As well as the GPs, the surgery also has a district nurse, health visitor midwives and podiatrist.
You should be able to get these through a district nurse or nurse continence adviser.
A district nurse and community health visitor will also use the new centre as a base.
The team includes a range of professionals, including a district nurse, counsellors and physiotherapist.
What will happen to people marooned in their homes by their health needs, if it is not possible for the district nurse to visit their homes any longer?
There's a district nurse from the new surgery who comes in every two weeks, just to maintain contact.
After a short stint as a private duty nurse, Dora became a relief district nurse at Slave Lake.
Our district nurse, old and wise, cured them all with some difficulty.
A district nurse attended the project steering group and became an enthusiastic convert, engaging many of her colleagues.
It was then discovered that I had MRSA, and the district nurse had to attend to my bandaging at home.
Before that, she served as a district nurse in her home area.
The district nurse attended regularly to dress it.
She later studied maternity nursing in Plymouth and became a district nurse in London.
A few days later a district nurse from Wilsden Medical Practice took a separate blood sample from him as part of a regular check-up.
She always seemed to have leg ulcers on her damaged shin and the district nurse was a frequent visitor.
Fourteen days later he was referred to the dermatology department by the district nurse, who was concerned that the wound was not healing.
The man opened his front door because, after spending four months in hospital being treated for jaundice, he was expecting a visit from the district nurse.
Congratulations and best wishes from all her patients to our district nurse Denise who gave birth recently to a bouncing baby girl.