Nursing vs. Nursery — What's the Difference?

Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice.

A room or area in a household set apart for the use of children.

The profession of a nurse.

A place for the temporary care of children in the absence of their parents.

The tasks or care of a nurse.

A nursery school.

In the state of suckling young, lactating.

A place where plants are grown for sale, transplanting, or experimentation.

Referring to nurses.

A place in which something is produced, fostered, or developed.

Suckling, such as breastfeeding.

(countable) A place where breastfeeding]] or the raising of children is carried on.

The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

(by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.

Present participle of nurse

A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.

Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

A play]] at the same time.

The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm

(Philippines) The first year of pre-school.

The profession of a nurse

A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

Nourishing at the breast

A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).

(horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.

(sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.

(countable) Something which educates and nurtures.

Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.

The act of nursing or rearing.

The act of nursing.

The place where nursing is carried on

That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

That which is nursed.

A child's room for a baby

A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions