nurse-tendern.

a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) I. 24 Both my father & mother was visited with a dangerous spotted fever... They had a nurse tender from Bruton, one Mrs. Wine, pretty skillful in such cases.

1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State of Cork ii. ix. 383 Other offices under-ground for the nursetenders.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde IV. ix. 201 Mr. Montgomery was glad of an excuse to play the nurse tender.

1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui xiv. 288 That was what first put him in the notion of taking the little lord out of the hands of the Dublin nurse-tenders, and them that were about my Lady Glenthorn.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ii Mrs. O'Grady was near the bed of the sick man as the nurse-tender entered.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxi. 210 The world is full of Miss Nightingales; and we, sick and wounded in our private Scutaris, have countless nurse-tenders.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 4/2 She was a born nurse tender, as they call sick-room attendants in..Ireland.

1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 85 Nurse-tender, a visiting nurse, monthly nurse.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 237/2 Nurse-tender, a hired nurse.