Healthcare 101
This healthcare professional is known for assessing patients, providing care, giving medications, and advocating for patients
What is a nurse?
This organ pumps blood throughout your body
What is the heart?
If someone has a small cut that is bleeding,you should generally do this first
What is apply pressure?
Someone is extremely thirsty, urinating frequently, and feeling unusually tired. A nurse might recognize these as possible signs of this condition
What is diabetes?
Nurses use this to listen to someone's heart and lungs
What is a stethoscope?
This is the name for the process nurses use to collect information about a patient's health
What is an assessment?
Oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the bloodstream primarily at these tiny structures
What are the alveoli?
This emergency number can be called in Canada when someone needs immediate emergency assistance
What is 911?
Someone suddenly develops facial drooping, difficulty speaking, and weakness on one side of their body. What emergency should you suspect?
What is a stroke?
This small device clips onto a finger and measures oxygen saturation and pulse
What is a pulse oximeter?
Nurses can work in hospitals, clinics, schools, mental health, public health, and even this setting where babies are born
What is labour and delivery?
This organ is the largest organ of the human body
What is the skin?
If someone is unconscious and not breathing normally, you should call for help and begin this life-saving procedure if trained
What is CPR?
A patient suddenly develops chest pressure, sweating, shortness of breath, and nausea. What serious emergency could these symptoms indicate?
What is a heart attack?
Nurses use this to measure a patient's body temperature
What is a thermometer?
A nurse notices that a patient cannot speak for themselves and makes sure their wishes and needs are communicated. This is called this
What is advocacy?
This organ helps control your thoughts, memory, movement, and many other body functions
What is the brain?
This device can deliver an electrical shock to someone experiencing certain types of cardiac arrest
What is an AED?
A patient has a fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and white patches on their tonsils. What condition might be causing these symptoms?
What is strep throat?
this device has two small prongs that sit inside the nostrils and is commonly used when a patient needs a lower flow of supplemental oxygen
What is a nasal cannula?
Nurses regularly work with doctors, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to provide patient care. What is this called?
What is interprofessional collaboration?
This organ filters your blood and produces urine. You have two of them
What are the kidneys?
This life-saving acronym stands for Face, Arm, Speech, and Time to call 911
What is FAST (used to identify stroke)?
A teenager suddenly develops wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, and difficulty breathing after being exposed to a trigger. What condition might they be experiencing?
What is asthma?
his device delivers a controlled electrical shock to the heart during certain types of cardiac arrest and can analyze the heart rhythm before delivering a shock
What is an automated external defibrillator (AED)?