night nurse

a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night

Words nearby night nurse

The night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.

Basil |Wilkie Collins
There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.

The Marriage of William Ashe |Mrs. Humphry Ward
The evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.

The Notting Hill Mystery |Charles Felix
The house was very still, only the occasional step of a night-nurse audible in the passages and rooms upstairs.

The Bright Messenger |Algernon Blackwood

A night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.

The Place of Dragons |William Le Queux