Famous Nurses
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This Latin term refers to men who tended to the sick in ancient Rome.
What is nosocomium?
Men and women between the ages of 25 and 44 account for this percent of all people in the U.S. who come to the emergency room with injury-related wounds.
What is 33 percent?
According to WalletHub, a personal finance social network, this state was ranked as having one of the best work environments for nurses.
What is Washington?
The first African-American nurse to study and work professionally in the United States.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
This city was home to the first hospital training ground in 1846.
What is Kaiserwerth, Germany?
This percent of LPNs are men.
What is 8%?
According to WalletHub, this states was ranked as having one of the worst working environments for nurses.
What is Tennessee?
She was the daughter of a US Congressman and the granddaughter of the Vice President of the U.S. She was an integral part of creating The Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies.
Who is Mary Breckinridge?
He started as a nurse and became the first African-American physician.
Who is James Derham?
What is 37 hours?
This state has the highest demand for nurses.
What is California?
She became interested in nursing when her sister fell ill. She was an advocate for civil rights and by 1909, she helped establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This country has an exam so difficult for foreign nurses that it has only been passed by 96 out of 741 test takers in the past five years.
What is Japan?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment for RNs is expected to grow by this much from 2012 to 2022.
What is 19%?
Less than 30% of nursing homes in this state have a 2 star ranking.
She started her own medical journal that was in high demand. She cared for Allied Soldiers and was sentenced to death when the German government found out.
Who is Edith Cavell?
According to the World Health Organization, this country has the lowest nurse population per capita (5 nurses per 100,000 people).
What is Nepal?
RNs make up the largest healthcare occupation in sheer number with this many jobs, as of 2012.
What is 2.7 million?
This area of the United States has the most nurses. (Several states)
What is the Northeast?