Nurses Week Jeopardy

Nursing history, famous nurses, specialties, and shift-life trivia for your Nurses Week party. Copy the board free and let the unit buzz in from their phones.

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Nursing History

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Nurses once wore this starched white piece of headgear, now rarely seen on the job.
What is the nursing cap?
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In 1873, Linda Richards became the first professionally trained nurse to graduate in this country.
What is the United States?
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In 1908, the first 20 women to serve as nurses in this branch of the U.S. military became known as the Sacred Twenty.
What is the U.S. Navy?
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In 1893, Lillian Wald founded this settlement on New York's Lower East Side to bring nursing care to the poor.
What is the Henry Street Settlement?
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Founded in 1899, this Geneva-based federation of national nurses' associations represents nurses worldwide.
What is the International Council of Nurses?

Famous Nurses

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Known as the Angel of the Battlefield in the Civil War, this nurse later founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
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This Jamaican-born nurse ran the British Hotel near the front lines to care for soldiers in the Crimean War.
Who was Mary Seacole?
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In 1879, this nurse became the first African American to graduate as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.
Who was Mary Eliza Mahoney?
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This nurse founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, sending nurses on horseback to families in rural Kentucky.
Who was Mary Breckinridge?
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This British nurse was executed by a German firing squad in 1915 for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium.
Who was Edith Cavell?

Nursing Specialties

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Nurses in this specialty care for children from infancy through adolescence.
What is pediatrics?
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This specialty cares for premature and critically ill newborns.
What is neonatal nursing?
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Nurses in this specialty care for patients before, during and after surgery.
What is perioperative nursing?
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This specialty focuses on comfort and quality of life for people with serious illness, at any stage.
What is palliative care?
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These advanced practice nurses provide sedation and pain control during surgery, and are the main providers of it in many rural hospitals.
What are certified registered nurse anesthetists?

Tools of the Trade

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This listening device was invented by René Laennec in 1816.
What is a stethoscope?
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This device clipped to a fingertip measures blood oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
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This is the medical name for a blood pressure cuff and gauge.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
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These blunt-tipped, angled scissors cut through clothing and bandages without cutting skin.
What are trauma shears?
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This computerized cabinet dispenses medications on the unit; Pyxis is a well-known brand.
What is an automated dispensing cabinet?

Life on the Shift

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Many hospital nurses work three shifts a week, each this long.
What is 12 hours?
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These comfortable, often colorful uniforms are standard wear on the unit.
What are scrubs?
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These backless, cushioned shoes are a nurse favorite, also worn by chefs.
What are clogs?
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At every shift change, nurses pass patient information to the incoming nurse in this.
What is handoff report?
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Superstition says never to say this Q word on a shift, or chaos will follow.
What is quiet?

Quick Clinical Trivia

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A normal adult resting heart rate runs from 60 to this many beats per minute.
What is 100?
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Normal body temperature is traditionally cited as this many degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 98.6?
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People with this blood type are known as universal red cell donors.
What is O negative?
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Adult CPR compressions should be delivered at 100 to this many per minute.
What is 120?
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This scale scores eye, verbal and motor responses from 3 to 15.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?

Final Jeopardy — Nursing History

National Nurses Week in the United States ends each year on May 12, the birthday of this founder of modern nursing.

Who is Florence Nightingale?

How to run this board

Nurses Week deserves more than a pizza delivery. This board celebrates the profession with nursing history, famous nurses, the many specialties, the tools of the trade, the realities of shift life, and a column of quick clinical trivia to keep it honest.

It is built to be played on a break-room TV in short bursts, so a night shift can finish a round even if the call lights keep going. Split into teams by unit or by years of experience and let the veterans and new graduates settle who knows more.

Add a column of your own about the unit, with its history, its legends, and the stories everyone tells, and invite managers and physicians to play on a team of their own.

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