(Medicine) (in Britain) a nurse employed within the National Health Service to attend patients in a particular area, usually by visiting them in their own homes
He said: "That's something that a district nurse can do, if they're going in regularly with compression bandages, and that has a huge beneficial effect on those people and on the NHS budget.
The union claims this is partly down to dissatisfaction with pay and working conditions, and the role of the district nurse being less attractive than it used to be.
This academic year will see 427 new entrants to the district nurse programme in 2013/14 in the UK--including Scotland--of whom 30% are registered part-time.
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