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  • 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…

  • Nunc pro tunc

    Acts permitted to be performed after they should have been performed and given retroactive effect.  

  • Numorphan

    A commercial preparation of oxymorphone.  

  • Null theory

    A theory of pornography’s effects that holds that pornography neither stimulates nor depresses sexual behavior, catharsis theory; modeling theory.  

  • Nullisomic

    A diploid cell or organism lacking both members of a chromosome pair.  

  • Nuisance

    A continuous disruption or misuse of property or social activity that prevents the normal function of a community Any noxious substance, accumulating in refuse or as dust or effluent, that is deemed to be injurious to health or offensive. It can also include dwellings, work premises, or animals. Anything that causes inconvenience, annoyance, or disturbance…

  • Nudism

    The social practice of some people who prefer to be nude rather than clothed. Often erroneously linked with exhibitionism is considered by some to be a sexual variance. In psychiatry, a morbid desire to remove clothing.  

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