Nursing
Medical Endings
Mnemonics
Medical Trivia
Emergency Codes
100
Patterned after a nun's habit to keep hair neatly in place
What is a Nurse's Cap?
100
Pril
What is ending for Ace inhibitors?
100
CAUTI
What is Catheter Associated Urinary Track Infection?
100
The name of a chart used for an eye exam
What is a snellen?
100
Code Silver
What is an active shooter?
200
The term nosocomial means
What is hospital acquired?
200
Caine
What is the ending for local anesthetics?
200
MONA
What is morphine, oxygen, Nitrates and aspirin?
200
Blood Pressure Cuff
What is a sphygmomanometer?
200
Code Amber
What is a Patient Elopement?
300
In 1873, this person earned the first nursing diploma in the United States.
Who is Linda Richards?
300
Olol
What is medical ending for Beta blocker?
300
PERRLA
What is Pupils Equally Round and Reactive to Light and Accommodation?
300
Handheld device used to examine a patient's eyes.
What is an opthalmoscope?
300
Code Red
What is Fire Safety?
400
This was established in India in 250 B.C.
What was the first nursing school?
400
Cillin, Mycin, Oxacin
What are medical endings for antibiotics?
400
SBAR
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation?
400
___ is to ear as _____ is to view.
What is oto and scope?
400
Code Blue
What is an adult cardia/respiratory arrest?
500
This famous poet served as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War and wrote "The Wound Dresser".
Who is Walt Whitman?
500
Sone
What are medical endings for steroids?
500
DARTH VADER
What is Death, Arrhythmia, Rupture, Tamponade, Heart Failure, Valve Disease, Aneurism of Ventricle, Dressler's Syndrome, Embolism, and Recurrence/mitral Regurgitation?
500
What is a pacemaker?
500
Code Zero
What is evacuate the facility?