Goodbye phlebotomy
The most common antiseptic used in cleaning the extremity before venipuncture
What is Alcohol?
The liquid lifeline for nursing students and all clinical staff alike
What is Coffee?
This fist-sized muscular organ works 24/7 pumping blood throughout the body.
What is The Heart?
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital is the dramatic backdrop for this long-running ABC medical series.
What is: Grey's Anatomy
The notoriously stressful computerized exam standing between you and your nursing license.
What is The NCLEX?
This pieve of equipment is tied around the arm to engorge veins before drawing blood
What is a Tourniquet?
Surviving a 12-hour clinical shift is only half the battle; the real nightmare begins when you have to spend hours writing these dreaded multi-page assignments.
What are Care Plans?
The total number of ribs found in the typical human skeletal system (counting both sides).
What is 24 (or 12 pairs)?
On House, M.D., Dr. Gregory House's diagnostic team will almost always incorrectly guess this disease first.
What is Lupus?
The two-letter professional credential you earn after passing your boards.
What is "RN"?
This color tube is used to draw a Complete Blood Count and contains the additive EDTA
What is a Purple Top?
This high-pitched digital sound strikes pure terror into the heart of any student nurse halfway down the hall.
What is a Bed Alarm?
Weighing in at around 8 pounds, this is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the Skin?
JD, Turk, and Carla spent their early medical years working at this fictional facility.
What is Sacred Heart Hospital?
What the letter A stands for in "ADPIE"
What is Assessment?
While drawing blood, phlebotomists are taught to avoid this part of the arm unless absolutely necessary due to the risk of nerve damage or puncturing an artery.
What is the Inside/Underside of The Wrist?
Nurses live by this golden legal rule: "If it wasn't ________, it didn't happen."
What is "Documented"?
Shaped like a pair of beans, these organs filter waste to produce urine.
What are The Kidneys?
Freddie Highmore stars as a brilliant surgeon with autism in this ABC medical drama.
What is The Good Doctor?
Credited with founding modern nursing during the Crimean War, she is remembered as "The Lady with the Lamp."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
What is a Hematoma?
Featuring a row of changing expressions from a frown to a big smile, this tool helps patients rate their pain.
What is the Wong-Baker FACES scale?
This powerful muscle is the only one in the human body attached at only one end.
What is The Tongue?
Before delivering a shock with a defibrillator, medical staff will dramatically shout this one-word command.
What is "Clear"?
Condition known as the "silent killer".
What is HTN?
Would also accept: What is High Blood Pressure?