Point former nurses ultimately made (5)
I believe the answer is:
sense
'point' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sense that I've seen before include "Perceptual faculty" , "eg Vision, hearing" , "Faculty of perception" , "Meaning of a word or expression" , "Smell, say" .)