Nurse spent three years at Barnet, culminating in helping the club win promotion back to the Football League during the 2014–15 season under the new role of player-coach.

Nurse was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and moved to England in 1984, taking up residence in Fulham living with his grandparents and mother.

[3] He stated that he "went on to score lots of goals and was lucky enough to appear in a number of finals and promotion winning teams", as well as saying it was during this time that he "really learnt how to play football".

[3] In 2002, he joined Nuwood of the Surrey South Eastern Combination, and after impressing that season, he subsequently signed for Sutton United.

[3] Nurse spoke to Stevenage Borough manager Graham Westley at the end of the season, and agreed to sign for the club on 12 June 2004.

[5] On his move to play in the highest tier of non-league football, Nurse stated – "Graham sold himself firstly and then told me how I would fit in.

[3] He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2004–05 season, playing the whole match as Stevenage lost 3–1 to Dagenham & Redbridge.

[6] Nurse's first goal for the club came in his sixth appearance on 21 September 2004, scoring the second in a 3–0 win over Farnborough Town at Cherrywood Road.

[7] Nurse found first-team appearances hard to come by due to a number of injuries, and in January 2005, he joined Conference South team Lewes on a loan deal.

[8] He made his debut for Lewes in a 3–2 victory over Hayes on 29 January 2005,[9] and scored his first goals for the club as they defeated Havant & Waterlooville 3–1 at The Dripping Pan.

[10] After scoring three times in seven matches at Lewes,[11] he returned to Stevenage, and subsequently regained his first-team place from March 2005 onwards.

[22] Having returned from a double hernia operation, he was loaned out for a month to fellow Conference National club Woking on 25 August 2006, in order to regain his fitness.

[23] He played regularly during his time at the Surrey-based club,[24][25][26] scoring two goals in eight games, and Woking manager Glenn Cockerill wished to extend the loan agreement.

[27] Four days later, Nurse played as a second-half substitute in the club's 2–1 home victory over Halifax Town, and scored a week later in a 2–2 draw away at Rushden & Diamonds.

[38] Nurse described his move as an opportunity that he could not turn down, owing to Dagenham's new Football League status, although he noted it was "a sad farewell" leaving Stevenage.

[3] He made his debut for Dagenham in the club's first Football League fixture on 11 August 2007, playing the whole match as they lost 1–0 to Stockport County at Edgeley Park.

[40] He scored his first league goal as Dagenham produced an "emphatic performance" in a 6–2 victory over Chester City on 12 February 2008.

[44] Nurse scored his first goal of the season on 21 October 2008, again appearing as a second-half substitute and halving the deficit as Dagenham lost 2–1 away to AFC Bournemouth.

[50] Nurse started the 2009–10 season by scoring three goals in as many games as Dagenham were positioned in first place in the League Two table during the early stages.

[56][57] He started in the play-off final against Rotherham United on 30 May 2010, played at Wembley Stadium, and scored the winning goal in the 70th-minute as Dagenham secured promotion to League One for the first time in their 18-year history.

[58][59] Nurse's goal, the third in a 3–2 victory, came with the game tied at two-all, when the ball "dropped invitingly to him after Rotherham failed to clear a corner and his deflected strike came off Ellison and eluded Warrington".

[60] Nurse played in Dagenham's first League One fixture during the 2010–11 season, coming on as a 65th-minute substitute in a 2–0 away defeat to Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on 7 August 2010.

[63] He ended his goal drought on 1 February 2011, scoring twice as Dagenham defeated Brentford 4–1 at Victoria Road, meaning the club moved off the bottom of League One.

[76] On his departure, Nurse said – "I sat down with John Still at the end of the 2011–12 season and was told that the club had to cut the budget and that unless they could get players off the wage bill I wouldn't be offered a new contract".

[91] He made two brief substitute appearances on his return from a three-match suspension before being loaned out to Conference South club Farnborough on a one-month deal on 31 January 2014.

[93] Having scored one goal in five appearances during the loan agreement,[87] Barnet recalled him early on 27 February 2014, due to a number of injuries to their attacking options.

[106] The forward then earned his second cap a month later when he played 69 minutes in the second leg against Dominica in Bridgetown on 26 March 2008, which Barbados won 1–0 to qualify for the second round of qualification.

[115] Nurse has a younger brother, Chris, who is also a professional footballer, with the pair playing in the same team during their time at Sutton United.