Category: N

  • Nutritional anthropology

    A discipline or science that is concerned with patterns of food acquisition and consumption, anthropology.  

  • Nutritional abuses

    Refers to actions taken relative to foods, nutrients, and diets that are contrary to scientific evidence or are harmful to health.  

  • Nutation

    In botany, the movement of growing parts, such as stems, leaves, or flowers. Involuntary nodding of the head. Act of nodding the head, especially uncontrolled nodding.  

  • Nurture

    Environmental influence and care of the young. Care given to a child while it is developing.  

  • Nurturance

    Comfort and support in the interest of personal growth. Support for a child’s basic psychological growth and development and responsiveness to the child’s needs, hopes, fears, and aspirations. For the child to develop normally, at least one person in his or her life often, but not necessarily, a parent must supply that nurturance, a process…

  • Nursing home

    A facility that provides secure, protective, custodial care of the sick, elderly, or disabled. Generally, a wide range of institutions, other than hospitals, which provide various levels of maintenance and personal or nursing care to people who are unable to care for themselves and who may have health problems which range from minimal to very…

  • Nursing aide

    One who performs limited nursing services usually under the supervision of a registered nurse.  

  • Nursery school

    A school that offers supervised educational experiences for prekindergarten children. A separate school for children of pre-kindergarten age, from ages two or three to five; a type of preschool educational program. Many nursery schools are cooperative, local groups, in which parents donate some of their time to serve as teachers’ aides, in such areas as…

  • Nurse practitioner (NP)

    A registered nurse (RN) with advanced training in a particular medical specialty. A registered nurse qualified and specially trained to provide primary care, including primary health care in homes and in ambulatory care facilities, long-term care facilities and other health care institutions. Nurse practitioners generally function under supervision of a physician but not necessarily in…

  • Nurse

    Nurse

    A paramedical profession requiring training in general aspects of nursing and requiring licensing or certification. An individual whose primary responsibility is the provision of nursing care. A nurse can be defined as a professional person qualified by education and authorized by law to practice nursing. This does describe a registered nurse but not all people…