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nursing

 noun
     
Related topics: Occupations, Nurses, Doctors, etc
nurs‧ing [uncountable]
MN the job or skill of looking after people who are ill, injured, or old:
I'd love to go into nursing.
the nursing profession
psychiatric nursing
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