Medical Terminology
The female patient's prolonged vaginal bleeding signaled the need to widen the cervix and scrape the endometrial lining of the uterus
Dilation and curettage
I just recieved an IM injection in my right shoulder
Deltoid
Juliana Marguiles portrayed head nurse Carol Hathaway in this long-running NBC medical drama that is set at fictional County General Hospital in Chicago
ER
After a full pot of coffee and a 12 hour shift, not once have you done this
Used the bathroom!!!
Florence Nightengale is famously noted for what contribution to the nursing field. This is something that we as nurses must practice on a regular basis
sanitary conditions in the hospital setting
This term means scant menstrual flow
oligomenorrhea
Jesse, after presenting to the ER from playing football, recently tore their ACL
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Judy Reyes potrayed RN Carla Espinoza on this NBC sitcom that often portrayed doctors and nurses as eccentric yet hard working as they face the trials and tribulations of working in a hospital
Scrubs
You're at home asleep but still hear the ringing from this
Call light
This nurse brought the importance of understanding mental health to the nursing world.
Dorothea Dix
Often associated with aging, the deterioration of the central portion of the retina results in a loss of central vision
Glaucoma
In the female reproductive system, this mucous membrane lines the uterine wall
Endometrium
Jada Pinkett-Smith portrays a Director of Nursing at the fictional James River Hospital in this medical drama on TNT which aired from 2009-2011
HawthoRNe
You give someone the snake eye whenever they mention this "q" word
Q-U-I-E-T
British-Jamaican nurse who established the famous "British Hotel" during the Crimean War
Mary Seacole
The first feces of the newborn
Meconium
The heart wall is made up of three layers: endocardium, myocardium, and this
Epicardium
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan from this iconic sitcom airing from 1972 to 1983
M*A*S*H
You stop someone in a grocery store and tell them the side effects of respiratory infection and what they can use to improvise because they forgot to wear this
Mask
Legendary skilled rifle-toting American pioneer woman who preferred to dress in men's attire, she would eventually end up in Deadwood, South Dakota where she became a nurse aiding men affected by the town's smallpox outbreak. She would nurse back to health 8 out of 10 patients
Calamity Jane
Female patient who has never been pregnant would be described as this
nulligravida
Tthese are the three main types of blood vessels:
Capillaries, veins, arteries
Renee Zellweger plays the title character as a small-town waitress who stumbles into a soap-opera career where she plays a nurse at fictional Loma Vista hospital
Nurse Betty
You receive the news you have a new admit coming and you already have this completed before they arrive
Care plan
This highly regarded woman was the first African-American nurse in the U.S.
Mary Eliza Mahoney