Alex was sitting on the porch swing, nursing a cup of coffee the morning they arrived to work on the house.
Martha's father suffered a heart attack when she was in nursing school and her mom followed, from a broken heart, seven weeks later.
Jeff's father is dead and his mother is in a nursing home.
Alex had warned her against nursing him too long, but it seemed right at the time.
The male schools, therefore, stand somewhat apart, though they mark a stage in the evolution of nursing as the earliest regular training establishments.
Josh was sitting at the table nursing a cup of coffee with Alex.
Nursing, as a popular or fashionable occupation, is not a modern invention.
In Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium scientific nursing is in a backward state.
When her next baby was born, despite the opposition of her mother, the doctors, and even of her husband himself-- who were all vigorously opposed to her nursing her baby herself, a thing then unheard of and considered injurious--she insisted on having her own way, and after that nursed all her babies herself.
Pete stood and looked down at Davis, who was silently nursing his coffee.
He could have gone to a nursing home so he wasn't such a burden on his daughter.
No. Nursing his wounds, I suspect.
Would she spend the rest of her life traveling back and forth from a hospital or nursing home?
Nursing a cratered heart, he stepped into Hell, well aware he had nowhere else to go.
Dean spent the next hour nursing two beers and telephoned again, still without success.
Her biggest problem now would be explaining things to her boyfriend, who was probably still nursing his wounds.
Today she was absent, home nursing child number five, down with a spring fever, or just plain Spring Fever.
Alex was standing on the porch, leaning on the rail and nursing a cup of coffee.
Keaton was lounging in the doorway, nursing a steaming cup of coffee.
The syncretism of the Babylonian and the Persian religion was also the nursing-ground of Gnosticism.
Neale was strongly high-church in his sympathies, and had to endure a good deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' inhibition by his bishop. In 1855 he founded a nursing sisterhood named St Margaret's.
Throughout the continuance of the government under the provincial charter, there was a constant struggle between a prerogative party, headed by the royal governor, and a popular party who cherished recollections of their practical independence under the colonial charter, and who were nursing the sentiments which finally took the form of resistance in 1775.
He proposed to accomplish this by carefully nursing her resources, and in the meantime securing and enriching her by alliances, which would bring in large subsidies while imposing a minimum of obligations.
The development of sick-nursing, which has brought into existence a large, highly-skilled, and organised profession, is one of the most notable features of modern social life.
Organized nursing does not appear to have formed any part of medical treatment, except in so far as the deacons of the church attended on the poor, until the 4th century of the Christian era.
These institutions were managed by the clergy, and throughout the dark and middle ages the hospital and nursing systems were connected with religious bodies.
The order of St Vincent de Paul, founded in 1633 for the express purpose, is still the largest nursing organization in the world.
In Protestant countries a secular nursing system came in with the Reformation.
In 1838 the Society of Friends founded a nursing organization in Philadelphia, and in 1840 Mrs Fry, a member of the same community, started the Institution of Nursing Sisters in London.
In 1838 the Society of Friends founded a nursing organization in Philadelphia, and in 1840 Mrs Fry, a member of the same community, started the Institution of Nursing Sisters in London.
The work undertaken and accomplished by this lady was far more important than the mere nursing of sick and wounded soldiers.
Thus nursing became a menial office and an inferior means of livelihood, adopted by women of the lower orders without any training or special skill; and so it continued down to the middle of the 19th century, when a new movement began which was destined to revolutionize the status of the nurse.
On the continent institutes for nursing deaconesses were founded at Strassburg, Utrecht, Berlin, Breslau, Konigsberg and Carlsruhe between 1842 and 1851.
The nursing at King's College Hospital was for many years undertaken by this society, whose members were trained at the hospital.
In the meantime several nursing societies, in addition to those previously mentioned, had been founded in England, and elsewhere.
In the same year the first district nurse began work in Liverpool; and in 1865 the reform of the much-neglected workhouse nursing was inaugurated by Miss Agnes Jones and twelve nurses from St Thomas's, who took up the work in Liverpool.
In France, where the nursing was comparatively well performed by the religious orders, no change was made until 1877, when a training school was opened in Paris by the municipality, and two others by the Assistance Publique, in connexion with the Salpetriere and Bicetre Hospitals.
It remained for the third influence to complete the work begun and to develop systematic nursing to its present dimensions.
Nursing does not appear to be regulated by law in any country, though attempts in this direction had been made in England.'
They live in a home attached to the institution, under a matron, and in the most modern establishments each nurse has a separate bedroom, with common dining and recreation rooms. Private nursing staffs are attached to several of the hospitals; they are recruited from the staff nurses and probationers on completion of their course, and supply nurses to private patients.
It was founded in 1887 with the object of providing skilled nursing for the sick poor in their own homes.
A great many of the provincial nursing associations are affiliated to it.
