Nursing Fundamentals
Tools & Equipment
Anatomy & Physiology
Medical Abbreviations
SFC Nursing
100

This is the most important step in infection prevention.

What is handwashing?

100

Nurses use this instrument to listen to heart, lung, and bowel sounds?

What is a stethoscope?

100

This organ pumps blood throughout the body.

What is the heart?

100

“BP” stands for this vital sign.

What is blood pressure?

100

Name the floor number that all labs are in.

What is the 7th floor?

200

The “R” in RACE (fire safety) stands for this.

What is Rescue?

200

This is worn by nurses to protect hands when in contact with bodily fluids.

What are gloves?

200

The process by which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs.

What is diffusion?

200

“NPO” means this.

What is nothing by mouth?

200

Nursing students at SFC wear this color scrubs for clinicals.

What is navy blue?

300

The proper angle for inserting an intramuscular injection.

What is 90 degrees?

300

This device measures blood pressure.

What is a sphygmomanometer (BP cuff)?

300

The largest organ in the human body.

What is the skin?

300

“PRN” means this.

What is as needed?

300

Name three required pre-nursing courses needed to go into the nursing program.

What is A&P 1/2, College Algebra, Statistics, Chemistry, Microbiology?
400

The letters “RN” after a nurse’s name stand for this.

What is Registered Nurse?

400

This is used to measure a patient’s oxygen saturation.

What is a pulse oximeter?

400

This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.

What is the cerebellum?

400

“IV” means this.

What is intravenous?

400

This national exam is required for SFC nursing graduates to become RNs.

What is the NCLEX?

500

The five rights of medication administration are right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and this.

What is right time?

500

This common tool is used to check a patient’s reflexes.

What is a reflex hammer?

500

The bone that protects the brain.

What is the skull?

500

“SOB” on a chart means this.

What is shortness of breath?

500

This woman is the chair of nursing at SFC.

What is Mary Kate Kasler?

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