RN
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3.4
- noun
- Specialized
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enfermero
- After completing her training, she became an RN and started working in a pediatric ward.
- NCLEX-RN
- MSN, RN
- RN, PhD
Like I wanted to get my like RN degree.
- Like I wanted to get my like RN degree.
- I wanted to be an RN.
- If you as an RN and I'm sorry that it's late, but aren't you glad that is it that at least it is going to be late?
Examples
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First day as an RN, and I'm already messing up.
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The care of children may be perceived to be the domain of nurses who have completed RN child branch training.
Academic text (2011) -
I think my RN skills would be useful here.
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Under normal circumstances, I can cover RN duties, but nothing is normal here.
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I want to be an RN nurse.
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And my sister is an RN.
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There are many other avenues besides being a floor RN that I could venture down.
Blog text (25) -
I am a retired psychiatric RN who lives a simple life in a rural suburb.
Blog text (8) -
Over the course of the next few days, the RN staff collects pertinent data.
Academic text (2015) -
By Nancy Kirkpatrick, RN, Staff Nurse, Float Pool, Porter Memorial Hospital, Littleton, Colo.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person trained to care for sick people under a doctor's supervision
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2.8
A trained health worker who cares for sick people and has official permission to work
Surface Forms
Morphology
RN = registered + nurse (semi-transparent) = R + N
RN is an initialism for the two-word phrase 'registered nurse'; the underlying words give the meaning, but the letter sequence alone is not a standard morphological clue for learners unfamiliar with the abbreviation.
Etymology
RN is short for Registered Nurse, and it comes from the idea of a register as an 'official list' of people allowed to do the job. So an RN is a nurse whose name is on that list and who is officially allowed to practice.