| SN | sclerema neonatorum; scrub nurse; sensorineural; sensory neuron; serum neutralization; sinus node; s... |
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| PDN | prednisone; private duty nurse |
| AHN | Army Head Nurse; assistant head nurse |
| GNP | geriatric nurse practitioner; gerontologic nurse practitioner |
| LVN | lateral ventricular nerve; lateral vestibular nucleus; Licensed Visiting Nurse; Licensed Vocational ... |
| ACNP | Acute Care Nurse Practitioner |
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| APN | Advanced Practice Nurse |
| ACNM | American College of Nurse Midwives |
| CRNA | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist |
| CNMs | Certified nurse-midwives |
| private nurse | A nurse who is not a member of a hospital staff, but is hired by the client or his/her family on a fee-for-service basis to care for the client, a nurse who specialises in the care of patients with diseases of a particular class, e.g., surgical cases, tuberculosis, children's diseases. Synonym: private nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| private duty nurse | A nurse who is not a member of a hospital staff, but is hired by the client or his/her family on a fee-for-service basis to care for the client, a nurse who specialises in the care of patients with diseases of a particular class, e.g., surgical cases, tuberculosis, children's diseases. Synonym: private nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| private | 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary. 2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer. "Reason . . . Then retires Into her private cell when nature rests." (Milton) 3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. "A private person may arrest a felon." (Blackstone) 4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding. 5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. Private act or statute, a statute exclusively for the settlement of private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial notice; opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole community. Private nuisance or wrong. See Nuisance. Private soldier. See Private. Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground. Origin: L. Privatus apart from the state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. P. Of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. Privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward (hence, alone, single) and akin to prae = before. See Prior, and cf. Deprive, Privy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| private blood group | A blood group that is known to have occurred in only one family and is traceable to one single person. (05 Mar 2000) |
| private hospital | A hospital similar to a group hospital except that it is controlled by a single practitioner or by the practitioner and the associates in his or her office, a hospital operated for profit. Synonym: proprietary hospital. (05 Mar 2000) |
| private mutation | A rare mutation found usually only in a single family or a small population. It is like a privately printed book. (12 Dec 1998) |
| private practice | Practice of a health profession by an individual, offering services on a person-to-person basis, as opposed to group or partnership practice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| private sector | That distinct portion of the institutional, industrial, or economic structure of a country that is controlled or owned by non-governmental, private interests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, private | A class of hospitals that includes profit or not-for-profit hospitals that are controlled by a legal entity other than a government agency. (hospital administration terminology, aha, 2d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing, private duty | The practice of nursing by a registered or licensed nurse to care for a specific patient in a health facility or in the home. (12 Dec 1998) |
| general duty nurse | Nurse who accepts assignment to any unit of a hospital other than an intensive care unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| registered nurse | <specialist> A trained medical professional who assists people in health care under the direction of a physician. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visiting nurse | A nurse who is responsible for a group of clients in the home setting. Visits clients on a routine basis to assist client and family with care as needed and to teach family the care needed so that the client may remain in his/her home. Synonym: visiting nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| certified nurse-midwife | A registered nurse with at least a masters degree in nursing and advanced education in the management of the entire maternity cycle. Achieved through an organised program of study and national testing by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| certified registered nurse anaesthetist | A registered professional nurse with additional education in the administration of anaesthetics. Certification achieved through a program of study recognised by the American Association of Nurse Anaesthetists. (05 Mar 2000) |
| charge nurse | A nurse administratively responsible for a designated hospital unit on an 8 hour basis. Synonym: head nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
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