From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdistrict nurseˌdistrict ˈnurse noun [countable] British English MHBOa nurse who visits people in their own homes
Examples from the Corpus
district nurse• Astonishingly, they both work full time, Jenny as a district nurse, Michael a doctor.• He and his wife, Carole, a district nurse, have two young sons.• Using a person outside the family circle, such as the district nurse, is positively the last resort.• She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse.• The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre. 