A person who assists professional nurses by providing basic patient care.
she works as a nursing auxiliary at the Gloucester Royal Hospital
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The female nursing auxiliary, who works at the infirmary, has the deadly disease.
Being a student nurse, I had spent the day looking after nine seriously ill patients, together with a junior staff nurse and part-time nursing auxiliary.
He alleges that a nursing auxiliary administered a drug overdose.
Caring for the patient undoubtedly involves special skills over and above those normally possessed by nursing auxiliaries.
Some 40,000 of the lowest-paid nursing auxiliaries will see their pay rise by up to 4.3 per cent.
The nursing auxiliaries are not qualified nurses.
She told the court she was a nursing auxiliary working in the community.
The service provides trained nursing auxiliaries to give up to 24-hour nursing care to patients in their own homes in the last two weeks of their life.
Most of her working life was to be spent in domestic work, although she did enjoy a brief stint later on as a nursing auxiliary.
She had served as a nursing auxiliary with the British expeditionary force.