Although American Red Cross shelters usually have a nurse assigned to the facility, they are not equipped to provide medical care beyond emergency first aid.

The charge nurse is the nurse, usually assigned for a shift, who is responsible for the immediate functioning of the unit.

I had a young nurse assigned to me one day who clearly did not know how to handle a colostomy.

For nurses not normally assigned to the unit, they will learn about the patients on the unit.

She would be assisted by the prison's medical director and another full-time doctor, she said, along with a nurse assigned to the unit.

"We saw more cows than patients," said Sopha Sum, a nurse then assigned to the hospital.

Ms. Epstein's unit is relatively well-staffed, with each nurse usually assigned to only one or two infants.

I expected someone to rush over, but the nurse assigned to the girl moved slowly, calmly, as if it was no big deal.

She knew it was an opportune time, because the nurse assigned to Rowena was on break with her and wouldn't be back for another ten minutes.

So why are the youngest and prettiest nurses assigned to this same ward?