Nursing History and Pop Culture
This famous nurse was known as "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
A patient who is not breathing needs this life-saving technique.
What is CPR?
What is code blue?
This common medicine helps with headaches and fevers.
What is Tylenol?
This classic TV drama featured Dr. Meredith Grey, navigating the ups and downs of hospital life.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
You have ___ kidneys in your body.
What is two?
This happens when you pull an all-nighter before a nursing exam.
What is exhaustion?
This term is what you use for someone who visits the ER a lot.
What is, a frequent flyer?
You put this on a cut to help it heal.
What is a bandage?
Nurses celebrate National Nurses Week in this month every year.
What is May?
The biggest organ in the human body is.
What is skin?
Nurses take this before giving medication to check for fevers.
What is temperature?
What does AMA stand for in the hospital?
What is "Against Medical Advice?"
If someone is chocking, you perform this.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver?
The first thing nursing students learn in their very first lab is how to do this skill.
What is hand-washing?
This body part is responsible for your sense of balance.
What is ear?
Nurses often have to wake up for shifts at this painfully early time.
What is 5am?
This is what a nurse says if a patient is deteriorating rapidly
What is "Circling the Drain?"
The best way to prevent infection is by washing these.
What is your hands?
Nursing students tend to practice checking this vital sign on their friends before trying it on real patients.
What is blood pressure?
This is the number of human bones in the adult body.
What is 206?
The thing every nurse needs before a long shift.
What is coffee?
This term is used when a nurse transfers a patient to another unit to avoid responsibility.
What is turfing?
This is the correct ratio for compressions to breaths in CPR
What is 30:2?