head nurse

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   the person in charge of nursing in a medical institution

   Broadernurse

Questions about head nurse

What does head nurse mean?

head nurse means "the person in charge of nursing in a medical institution".

Is head nurse a common word?

head nurse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.