Florence Nightingale achieved notariety as manager of nurses on the battlefields of which war?
What is Crimean War?
100
She was a strong-willed, iconoclastic NYC ED nurse at All Saints Hospital.
Who is Nurse Jackie (Peyton)?
100
In 1916, Margaret Sanger shocked society (and earned jail time) when she did this.
Opened the first birth control clinic? It established what would eventually become Planned Parenthood.
100
The next time that you place a used needle into a plastic disposal container, remember that in the 1980s, these containers were made of this flimsy material.
What is paper/cardboard? When full, the opening was covered with silk tape by the CNA and sent for disposal.
100
HEENT
What is head, eyes, ears, nose, throat?
200
Florence was known for rounding on wounded patients at night, earning her the moniker, "Lady With the _____"
What is Lamp?
200
She was the nurse manager in the emergency room of Chicago’s County General Hospital.
Who is Carol Hathaway?
200
Before becoming Superintendent of Army Nurses for the North in the Civil War, Dorothea Dix was a powerful reformer for the treatment of this medical condition.
What is the mentally ill?
200
In the 1970s and 80s, before Pixis, at the end of every shift, narcotics were counted by ongoing and offgoing RNs and this was endorsed to the next shift.
The narcotic keys.
200
PMH CAD
What is previous/past medical history coronary artery disease?
300
In her landmark book, "Notes on Nursing," Nightingale was the first in health care to stress the importance of clean air, nutrition, and this very basic quality measure to prevent the spread of infection.
What is sanitation/handwashing?
300
She was the outspoken head nurse of a MASH unit during the Korean War.
Who is Margaret J. “Hot Lips” Houlihan?
300
Before founding the American Red Cross, she ran the Office of Missing Soldiers for the Civil War, the first efforts of the U.S. in helping to find or identify soldiers killed or missing in action
Who is Clara Barton?
300
Besides wearing starched white in the 1970s, a nurse uniform was not complete without this to "top" it off.
What is a cap?
300
POD TAH
What is post-operative day total abdominal hysterectomy?
400
Flo was also the first in the medical field to demonstrate the importance of epidemiology using this, still in use in our NDNQI/quality improvements.
What is statistics?
In 1859, Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society.
400
She was the nurse-secretary-friend to family practice Doctors Marcus Welby and Steven Kiley.
Who is Consuelo Lopez?
400
Although better known for his "Leaves of Grass" and other poems, he was also an army nurse during the American Civil War.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
Before the use of computers, every unit had one of these large books, used to look up drugs and updated annually.
What is a PDR (Physician Desk Reference)?
400
FRC
What is functional residual capacity?
500
In 1855, Flo received 45,000 English pounds from donations that she used to establish this.
What is School of Nursing (at St. Thomas' Hospital, London).
500
Diahann Carroll played this widowed, single mother who was a nurse in a doctor’s office.
Who is Julia Baker?
500
Her job as First Lady did not stop her from tending wounded soldiers in the Civil War.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
500
In many hospitals until the 1980s, protocol required nurses to do this when an MD entered the unit.