Nursing
Name three of the vital signs that nurses take.
What is Temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration?
Disease characterized by the destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas?
Diabetes
The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children, and in 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine to prevents its infection. What's the common name for the disease this virus causes?
What is chicken pox?
The human retina contains receptor cells of two different types: rods and what tapered shapes?
What are cones?
Plaque hardens on your teeth, it forms...
What is tartar?
The average length of most Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs.
What is 4 years?
Medical term for inflammation of the liver.
What is Hepatitis?
Both the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross are headquartered in what Swiss city?
What is Geneva?
What “M” word is an alternate word, derived from the Greek, for nearsightedness? It has become an adjective meaning lacking imagination.
What is myopia?
Maxilla is...
What is the upper jaw?
The largest organ in the human body that is often assessed by nurses for signs of jaundice or dehydration.
What is skin?
The vaccine for measles prevention is often called the MMR vaccine because it also prevents the mumps and what other disease?
What is Rubella?
On May 24, 2022, WHO announced that three African countries had eliminated trypanosomiasis, also known as "sleeping sickness," as a public health problem: Benin, Uganda, and what country whose capital is Kigali?
What is Rwanda?
What “C” word is the mucous membrane that covers the front of the eye and the inside of the eyelids?
What is conjunctiva?
Name of the silver and mercury mixture that is used for fillings.
What is Amalgam?
Name four nursing specialties.
What is pediatric, emergency, geriatric, critical care, oncology, operation room, psychiatric-mental health?
What is the common name for the disease technically known as SLE that uses hydroxychloroquine as one of its treatment drugs? This autoimmune disease has a wide range of symptoms but the most common is a red rash.
What is Lupus?
On August 31, 2022, FDA approved bivalent booster versions of Moderna's and Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccines that protect against the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of what COVID-19 variant?
What is Omicron?
Achromatopsia, an inherited condition that can lower sharpness of vision, or cause colorblindness, is caused by lack of receptors on what portion of the eye?
What is retina?
Diastema is...
What is the spacing between teeth?
The term for the process of administering medication via injection into the fatty tissue layer beneath the skin, commonly performed by nurses.
What is subcutaneous injection, aka "subQ injection"?
What "I" word, which literally means "produced by a physician," refers to any disease or complication caused by medical intervention?
What is Iatrogenic?
Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital was in the news in January 2022 for refusing to perform a transplant of what vital organ on a patient who was unvaccinated against COVID-19?
What is heart?
A patient with accommodative or refractive ______ has one eye that turns in more than the other when they’re trying to focus on something.
What is Esotropia?
Most adults have 32 teeth, called permanent or secondary teeth. How many incisors are there?
What is eight?