registered nurse

1. 1.

   a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration

   SynonymsRN

   Broadernurse

   Narrowernurse-midwifenurse practitioner

Questions about registered nurse

What does registered nurse mean?

registered nurse means "a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration".

What is another word for registered nurse?

Close synonyms include RN. 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 registered nurse a common word?

registered 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.