Nursing Pioneers
This is what the letters "RN" stand for
What is a Register Nurse?
This is the number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This is the colorful, comfortable uniform nurses wear on every single shift instead of business clothes.
What are scrubs?
This is the standardized exam every nursing graduate must pass to become licensed.
What is the NCLEX?
This nurse is known as the founder of modern nursing and famously carried a lamp during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the instrument nurses use to listen to the heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the work schedule many nurses take on that flips their entire sleep routine upside down.
What is the night shift?
This is the fast-paced hospital unit where new nurses are often thrown right into the deep end.
What is the Emergency Room?
This nurse and abolitionist, famous for the Underground Railroad, also served as an armed scout and nurse during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This is the medical term for the device used to measure blood pressure.
What is a Sphygmomanometer?
This is the one item every nurse insists you can never have too comfortable a pair of, given all those hours on their feet
What are comfortable shoes?
True or False: Nursing programs require hands-on clinical hours in addition to classroom learning.
What is true?
This week-long celebration every May, honoring nurses everywhere, ends on Florence Nightingale's birthday.
What is Nurses Week?
This hardworking organ pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood every single day.
What is a heart?
This is the secret weapon many nurses swear by to keep their legs from aching after a long shift on their feet.
What are compression socks?
This beverage is jokingly called a nursing student's best friend during finals week and long shifts alike.
Coffee