Nursing Pioneers
She was the first African American licensed nurse in the U.S.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
He preformed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893 before modern technology existed.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
This organ is the largest in the human body
What is the skin?
The founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
She found the American Red Cross in the United States.
Who is Clara Barton?
This researcher’s plasma preservation techniques transformed emergency medicine forever.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
The average person produces how much saliva per day
What is 1-2 liters?
This organization was created to support Black nurses and fight discrimination.
What is the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses?
The founder of Frontier Nursing Service
Who is Beverly Malone?
This neurosurgeon became famous worldwide for separating conjoined twins at the head.
Who is Ben Carson?
If needed, you can live without this organ
What is the Gallbladder?
This symbol looks like a snake that is wrapped around a staff and is often used in medicine.
What is the Rod of Asclepius?
The founder of Black Girls in Nursing.
Who is Ashley McLemore?
She was the first black female physician in the U.S, she treated enslaved people and wrote a medical book.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
Feeling pain in a limb that is no longer attached to your body is called?
What is phantom Limb pain?
Nurses and doctors use this tool to listen to heartbeats.
What is a stethoscope?
She is known for being brave and was a civil war nurse and spy. She also earned the title "Black Florence Nightingale."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
His revolutionary work with blood plasma and blood banks saved thousands of lives during WWII.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
The flap the prevents food from entering your windpipe
What is Epiglottis?
This unethical study allowed syphilis to go untreated in Black men for decades.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?