Nurses on Screen
Edie Falco plays a complicated ER nurse in this Showtime drama.
What is Nurse Jackie?
This cookie is said to have originated at the Toll House Inn in the 1930's. (Though it probably existed earlier!)
What is the chocolate chip cookie?
NAC reportedly gets over 40% of its revenue from this institution.
What is the NYC Administration for Children's Services?
After the 1918-1919 pandemic that killed an estimated 20-50 million people, the US Military began work on developing this vaccine. The first one would not be approved for military use until 1945, with civilian use following in 1946.
What is the influenza vaccine?
This nurse plays a central role in the Ken Kesey novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which later became a famous film starring Jack Nicholson (Louise Fletcher played the nurse!).
Nurse Ratched.
Hot chocolate originated on this continent.
What is South America?
At only 19% of the total children served by NAC, this group makes up the smallest portion of kids when separating by age (Choose from 0-5 years old, 6-12 years old, or 13-21 years old)
What is 0-5 years old?
In 1796, English doctor Edward Jenner built off of earlier discoveries and inoculated an 8 year old with infected material from a cow in an effort to immunize against this illness.
What is smallpox?
Rashida Jones plays nurse Ann Perkins, best friends with Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) on this NBC comedy.
What is Parks and Rec?
Though its origins are debated, this drink may have come from the British drink 'Posset,' a curdled beverage of milk and ale or wine.
What is eggnog?
When divided by geography, this borough is where the largest share of families served by NAC reside.
The Bronx, with 43% of families. (Manhattan = 22%; Brooklyn = 16%; Queens = 8%; Staten Island = 3%; Other = 8%)
Jonas Salk became famous for developing this vaccine in the 1950's.
What is the polio vaccine?
The cast of this 1970's television show set during the Korean war included several nurse characters, including Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan and nurse Kellye Nakahara.
What is M*A*S*H*?
This European country is thought to be where the candy cane originated.
What is Germany?
This care management program served 400 children, the largest number of high needs kids in NYC.
What is C4CH? (Champions for Children's Health)
In 1995 Anne Szarewski began leading a team to develop this vaccine, which was ultimately approved for use in 2006.
What is the HPV vaccine?
One of the longest running soap operas of all time (since 1963!), this medical drama I'm sure included a lot of nurses (I'm sorry I have never seen it!!)
What is General Hospital?
This confection became so popular in Europe that by the 1600's its bakers had their own guilds. It can be shaped into many elaborate scenes.
What is gingerbread?
This program accounted for the largest share of NAC's expenditures at 33.5% of the total.
What is Foster Care and Adoption?
In the late 1800's, Louis Pasteur succeeds in using post exposure vaccination to cure this virus. We still use post exposure vaccination to treat it today.
What is the rabies virus?