In what State was the first registered nurse elected to Congress from?
What is Texas?
What is recognized as a symbol for nursing?
What is a lamp?
True or False: Nursing is named the most trusted profession.
What is True?
True or False: The World Health Organization designated 2020 as the "Year of the Nurse and Midwife".
On average, how many miles do nurses walk in a day?
What are 4 - 5 miles?
What is the name of the test a nurse can do to check for a blood clot in a patient's leg?
What is the Homan's sign?
What is the best paying school for nursing?
What is California?
At a salary of $113,240, with an hourly wage of $54.44 (keep in mind the cost of living in California)
This is a ventricular arrythmia that is not shockable.
(Hint: R on T phenomenon)
What is Torsades de pointe?
R-on-T phenomenon is a premature ventricular depolarization so early in the cardiac cycle that it falls on the apex of the preceding T wave. This can presage ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation
Grandma went to the bathroom but did not come back. After awhile she was found unconscious in the bathroom. She had moved her bowels. What may have caused this?
What is vasovagal response or vagus nerve?
Who was the first nurse?
Who is Florence Nightingale
How many nursing specialties are there? (Hint: there are less than 2150 but more than 50)
What are about 100 nursing specialties?
Which is one of the only states to have laws on the nurse-to-patient ratio?
What is California?
California is the only State in the country to require by law a specific number of nurses to patients in every hospital unit.
How many bones are there in the human body
What are 206?
How many nurses are currently working in the US?
What are about 3 - 4 million nurses?
What is the most common heart arrythmia!
What is atrial fibrillation?
At the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, how much were nurses being paid a week to travel and work in New York hospitals?
What is $10,000 a week?
What is the #1 cause of death in the U.S.?
Heart Disease
Who was the first professionally trained and licensed African American nurse in the U.S.?
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She went on to cofound the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)