The Originals
Known as the "Lady with the Lamp," she founded modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
This common OTC drug is used to treat minor aches and is often called APAP.
What is Acetaminophen (Tylenol)?
This famous comic-book villain "disguised" himself as a nurse to infiltrate a hospital during a scene in this 2008 blockbuster movie.
What is The Dark Knight?
Often draped around the neck, this tool’s name comes from the Greek words for 'chest' and 'to view,' though it is used for listening.
What is a stethoscope?
She was the first African American licensed nurse in the U.S. (1879).
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
The human heart has this many chambers.
What is four?
This "miracle" drug was the first true antibiotic, discovered by Alexander Fleming.
What is Penicillin?
Kathy Bates won an Oscar for playing this terrifying 'Number One Fan' and former nurse who holds an author captive in this 1992 thriller.
What is Misery?
Nurses use this inflatable cuff and pressure gauge to measure blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
This nurse founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
These are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
This class of drugs is used to "dry up" secretions or treat bradycardia.
What are Anticholinergics?
This 2000s sitcom features a no-nonsense but lovable nurse named Carla Espinosa who frequently keeps the doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital in line.
What is Scrubs?
This device—abbreviated AED—is used to analyze a heart rhythm and deliver a shock if necessary.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator?
During what war did nursing first become a recognized, organized profession?
What is the Crimean War?
The "Master Gland" located at the base of the brain.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
A patient on Warfarin should maintain a consistent intake of this vitamin.
What is Vitamin K?
In this 2001 epic, Kate Beckinsale plays a character by the name of Evelyn Johnson, who serves as a U.S. Navy nurse during the title's historic attack.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The version of this flexible tube that is inserted into the bladder to drain urine is name after this inventor. Dr. Frederic.
What is a Foley catheter?
She developed the "Self-Care Deficit" nursing theory.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
This is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone.
What is the Hyoid bone?
This life-threatening reaction involves a massive release of histamine and hives.
What is Anaphylaxis?
This 1996 Best Picture winner follows a nurse named Hana, played by Juliette Binoche, as she cares for a badly burned patient in an Italian villa during WWII.
What is The English Patient?
This long-term IV access line is inserted into a large vein in the upper arm and threaded all the way to the heart.
What is a PICC line? (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter)