nurse's aide

1. 1.

   someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training

   Synonymsnursing aide

   Broaderaide

Questions about nurse's aide

What does nurse's aide mean?

nurse's aide means "someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training".

What is another word for nurse's aide?

Close synonyms include nursing aide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nurse's aide a common word?

nurse's aide 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.