Pay no attention to foreign or English nurses (6)
I believe the answer is:
ignore
'pay no attention' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'foreign or english nurses' is the wordplay.
'nurses' indicates the answer is hidden within the clue (nurse can mean holding closely).
'IGNORE' can be found hidden inside 'foreign or english'.
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for ignore that I've seen before include "Blank" , "Pay no heed to" , "Give no attention to" , "Fail to notice (6)" , "Disregard - cut" .)