What Nurses do
This vital sign measures how fast your heat beats per minute
What is your pulse?
This drink is considered a nursing student’s best friend during late-night study sessions.
What is coffee or Celsius?
This organ pumps blood through your body
What is your heart?
This five-step process is drilled into every nursing student for organizing patient care.
What is the nursing process (ADPIE)?
Nurses often use this instrument to listen to the heart and lungs
What is a stethoscope?
This exam must be passed to become a licensed practical nurse
What is NCLEX-PN?
These cells carry oxygen through the bloodstream
What are red blood cells?
This hierarchy reminds nursing students that patients need oxygen and safety before self-esteem.
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
This type of nurse has an advanced degree and can prescribe medications
What is a nurse practitioner?
This nursing concept focuses on keeping the patient free from harm—even if it means raising the bed rails one more time.
What is patient safety?
The largest organ in the human body
What is skin?
This type of communication uses open-ended questions and lots of active listening.
What is therapeutic communication?
A nurse caring for patients before, during, and after surgery works in this specialty
What is perioperative nursing or surgical nursing?
This nursing school experience requires arriving early, wearing the correct uniform, and hoping your assigned patient is “nice.”
What are clinical rotations?
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
This nursing action comes first before any patient contact—even if you “just washed your hands.”
What is hand hygiene?
This nursing role focuses on improving health for entire populations or communities rather than individual patients.
What is public health nursing?
Known as the "Lady with the Lamp", she is considered the founder of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale
This system includes the kidneys and helps filter waste from the blood
What is the urinary system?
This brief pause between semesters convinces nursing students they’re finally well-rested—until classes start again.
What is winter break?