Pflegevorstand

English translation: Nursing Supervisor or Director of Nursing

06:57 Sep 5, 2014
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
German term or phrase: Pflegevorstand
Please could you assist with an appropriate translation for the word mentioned above.
Unfortunately this appears in a simple table, giving the person's name, followed by Pflegevorstand in brackets.
Über Ihren Rat würde ich mich sehr freuen - wäre Nursing Chairperson hier zumindest teilweise richtig?
Dr Sarai Pahla, MBChB
Germany
Local time: 00:19
English translation:Nursing Supervisor or Director of Nursing
Explanation:
If you see this as a title, then this is how it would be expressed in a US hospital. More context would be helpful, however, if you thought that this was short for Member of the Board of Nurses
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Donald Jacobson
United States
Local time: 18:19
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3 +2Nursing Supervisor or Director of Nursing
Donald Jacobson
4Head Nurse
Lirka
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Nursing Supervisor or Director of Nursing


Explanation:
If you see this as a title, then this is how it would be expressed in a US hospital. More context would be helpful, however, if you thought that this was short for Member of the Board of Nurses

Donald Jacobson
United States
Local time: 18:19
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Native speaker of: English
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Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your answer! In terms of context, this appears in a table at the bottom of a page in the document and is unrelated to the contents of the rest of the document - sorry that I cannot be more helpful in that regard.


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agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): Director of Nursing
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agree  uyuni: Please see reference below...
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Head Nurse


Explanation:
I'd call it this way :)

Lirka
Austria
Local time: 00:19
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Reference

Reference information:
nursing director,
a nurse whose function is the administrative and clinical leadership of the nursing service of a division of a health care facility, such as a nursing director of maternal and infant care nurses. Also called nursing supervisor.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

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