Nursing School Health and Medicine Trivia Famous Fictional Nurses/Fictional names Famous Nurses in History Anatomy
100
What is Potassium?
This electrolyte is spared by some diuretics.
100
What is a sinus headache?
This type of headache is caused by pressure in the spaces behind your cheekbones and nose.
100
Who was Major Houlihan from MASH?
A surgical nurse, nicknamed "hot lips".
100
Who was Florence Nightingale?
Perhaps the most famous, this nursing pioneer is known for her efforts to reform the British military health system.
100
What are lymph nodes?
High concentrations of these nodes in the human body are located in the armpits and groin.
200
What is a hernia?
A protrusion of an organ through the abdominal wall.
200
What is Herpes Simplex?
Cold sores which may or may not be triggered by a cold are caused by this 2-word virus.
200
Who was Carol Hathaway?
This ER nurse had an on-again, off-again romance with Dr. Doug Ross.
200
Who was Clara Barton?
This nurse is known as the founder of the Red Cross.
200
What is the epidermis?
This outer layer of the skin contains no blood vessels.
300
What is goose bumps?
The common term for piloerection.
300
What is GERD?
Chronic acid reflux is also known by this 4-letter acronym.
300
Who was Nurse Ratched?
The battle-axe nurse at Salem State Hospital.
300
Who was Margaret Sanger?
This nurse was the founder of the organization of what became Planned Parenthood.
300
What is the mandible?
Of the 14 facial bones, it is the only movable one.
400
What is AB+?
The universal recipient blood type.
400
What is anesthesia?
The local variety is used on a limited area of the body; the general type involves the loss of consciousness.
400
Who was Greg "Gaylord" Focker?
This male nurse had to "meet the parents".
400
Who was Dorthea Dix?
This nurse who served as the Superintendent of Army Nurses in the Civil War became the driving force behind the first mental asylums in the United States.
400
What is the gluteus maximus?
It's the two-word Latin name for those 2 big muscles you sit on.
500
What is Cushing's syndrome?
This condition is indicated by a rounded moon face and caused by an increased adrenal production.
500
What is Scurvy?
In 1753, Naval surgeon James Lind published a study showing that citrus fruit prevented this disease.
500
Who was Nurse Betty?
Renee Zellweger believed she was this nurse when really she was a diner waitress.
500
Who was Walt Whitman?
Few people realize that this famous poet was a volunteer nurse in the Civil War, leading to his "The Great Army of the Sick".
500
What is the liver?
A baby is born with a six month supply of iron stored in this organ.






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