Pharmacology
This describes a drug that binds to a receptor and causes the same action as the substance.
What is an agonist?
This is the number one way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
These ribs are not connected to the breastbone.
What are floating ribs?
This person donated stethoscopes for the sophomore classes at UConn.
Who is Margaret "Peggy" Sczesny?
This women's basketball player was a projected top-three pick in the 2024 WNBA draft but returned to UConn for her final season.
Who is Paige Bueckers?
This medication is the antidote for opioid overdose.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
The acronym ADPIE stands for this in the nursing process.
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation?
This type of joint allows for three types of movement.
What is ball-and-socket?
This nurse was best known for founding modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This UConn sports team has won the most NCAA championships.
What is the women's basketball team?
This medication helps with vitamin K reversal.
What is warfarin?
This level of prevention aims to reduce the symptoms after a disease has been developed.
What is tertiary prevention?
This allows bone to form on flat bones like those in the skull.
What is intramembranous ossification?
This is the 11th and current dean of Nursing at UConn.
Who is Dr. Dickson.
This beloved basketball player got drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers last year.
Who is Donovan Clingan?
What is multiple sclerosis?
This saying, "Don't worry, this is an easy procedure, you will be fine," is what type of verbal communication?
What is non-therapeutic verbal communication?
These sensory receptors adapt slowly towards a stimulus like pain.
What are tonic receptors?
This nurse was best known for her work as a nurse in the Crimean War.
Who is Mary Seacole?
UConn has their football games at this stadium.
What is the Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field?
This dysrhythmia causes an ST elevation.
What is STEMI (heart attack)?
These three types of nursing assessments are the most common in practice.
What is emergency, comprehensive, and focused?
This term describes a message occurring on the same side of the body and does not cross-over.
What is ipsilateral.
The UConn School of Nursing was the first in New England to receive accreditation from this organization.
What is the National League for Nursing (NLN)?
This male basketball player had their jersey retired alongside Richard "Rip" Hamilton.
Who is Ray Allen?