Nurse Week Trivia
This famous nurse created the American Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
The demand for this group of nurses is expected to rise up to 20% in the first decade of the 21st century.
What are LVNs?
This group of health care professionals have topped Gallup's Honesty & Ethics ranking every year except one since they were first added to the list in 1999.
What are nurses?
This movie star played a male nurse in the movie "Meet the Parents".
Who is Ben Stiller?
This TV nurse was stationed in Korea during the Korean War and was the head nurse at M*A*S*H 4077.
Who was Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan?
This statistician advocated for the sanitizing of hospitals during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing states that there are these many nurses for every doctor in the United States.
What is four?
The nurse's cap, patterned after a nun's habit to keep the hair neatly in place, has long been phased out at it is know to carry this
What are pathogens?
This male nurse was canonized as a saint in 1746 and was declared the patron saint of nurses and nursing groups by Pope Pius XI.
Who is St. Camillus de Lellios?
Nurse Ratched was a fictional character in this movie.
What is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Wife of America's most popular president of all times and volunteer nurse in the Union hospitals during the Civil War.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
With a projected growth rate of more than 23%, this is America's largest growing profession.
What is nursing?
This is the time-honored nursing school tradition. Often more personally meaningful than the graduation ceremony, it signifies your official initiation into the brotherhood and sisterhood of nurses.
What is the pinning ceremony?
Although more recognized as a writer and poet, this man is perhaps, the most noted male nurse in modern history. He spent a better part of his time during the American Civil War as a volunteer nurse after his brother was wounded.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Kitty Foreman played a nurse on this situation comedy that was set in a fictional town in Wisconsin. This show was popular in the early 2000's and was based on the 1970's.
What is "That 70's show?
She was the first nurse to receive a Nursing diploma in the United States.
Who is Linda Richards?
Male nurses make up this percentage of the total nursing school population in the United States.
What is 13%
On average, nurses do this nearly four to five times more every 12-hour shift, double most other professions.
What is walking?
In this year, males were permitted to attend state-supported schools beginning in this year?
What is 1982?
This is the character's name who played the nurse that held a lead role on the television series in the 1990's, "ER".
Who is Carol Hathaway?
This well-known nurse and midwife attended to 1,300 deliveries, with only 2 ending unsuccessful.
Who is Lucretia Lester?
The top occupational health concern of nurses is back injury. A survey done in 2011 showed this percentage of nurses were afraid they might have a back injury.
What is 59%?
This is the average age of the working nurse.
What is 50?
The first male nurse who came to the U.S. before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Who is Fray Juan de Mena?
Dixie McCall was the name of the emergency room nurse on this television series that was on the air from 1972-1977.
What is "Emergency!"