Reimagining the Role of ‘Home Visiting Nurse’


  • Gaa-bi-noojmohwed

Gaa-bi-noojmohwed ~ (Home-)Visiting Nurse


  • Gaa-…d ~ “someone who…”
  • bi- ~ “toward the speaker, this way, here, hither, ‘come and…'”
  • noojmo ~ “someone recovers from an illness”, “someone is healed”, “someone is cured”
  • h ~ “cause someone to be or to act”
  • we ~ “someone acts (on an unspecified animate being)”

  • someone-who-comes-to-heal-people

  • comes-to-you healer

  • (Home-)Visiting Nurse