Nurses Week Trivia Questions And Answers

Fun nurse week trivia questions and answers are great exercises for celebrating the upcoming nurse week. USA observes nurse week between May 6 and May 12.

1. Question: Where was the first nursing school established?

• Answer: India.

2. Question: When was the first nursing school established?

• Answer: 250 BC

3. Question: Which President of the USA proclaimed the first National Nursing Week?

• Answer: President Nixon

4. Question: When was the first presidential proclamation of National Nursing Week done?

• Answer: 1974

5. Question: Who was NASA's first nurse?

• Answer: Dee O’Hara 

6. Question: Who is the founder of modern nursing?

• Answer: Florence Nightingale

7. Question: What was Florence Nightingale named after?

• Answer: Her hometown of Florence, Italy

8. Question: Who is known as the black slave to pay off for his freedom with his salary from nursing?

• Answer: James Derham

9. Question: Who is the only First Lady of the United States of America to serve as a nurse at Union Hospital during Civil War?

• Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln (wife of President Abraham Lincoln)

10. Question: Who was the first African-American registered nurse?

• Answer: Mary Eliza Mahoney

11. Question: Which American poet volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the Civil War?

• Answer: Walt Whitman

12. Question: What is the full form of CPR?

• Answer: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

13. Question: What is the name of the famous song written and sung by Bee Gees used to train nurses and paramedics in CPR?

• Answer: Stayin' Alive

14. Question:  What are the four primary vital signs?

• Answer: Blood pressure, Breathing rate, Pulse rate, and Body temperature. 

15. Question: What is the name of the famous television nurse shown in the picture below?

16. Question: What does the term "Fluid Overload" mean?

• Answer: Hypervolemia

17. Question: What was the first hospital in the Philippines to train Filipino nurses in 1906?

• Answer: Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing

18. Question: What does HIPPA stand for?

• Answer: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

19. Question: What is the word used by medical professionals including nurses to describe a puncture in the human body by a huge foreign object?

• Answer: Impalement

20. Question: What is the term used to describe bleeding (mostly internal) from a ruptured blood vessel?

• Answer: Hemorrhages

21. Question: What does the word Ambulatory mean?

• Answer: The word Ambulatory describes a person who is capable of walking or moving freely without support.

22. Question: What word is used to describe older or senior patients?

• Answer: Geriatrics/Gerontology

23. Question: What is the full form of the abbreviation LNP in nursing?

• Answer: The acronym LNP stands for Licensed Practical Nurse

24. Question: What term describes abnormally low blood pressure in patients of any age?

• Answer: The word Hypotension describes abnormally low blood pressure.

25. Question: What does it mean when a patient is lethargic?

• Answer: Lethargic patients are sluggish. 

26. Question: What is a Ventilator?

• Answer: A ventilator is a specialized device that helps people breathe by pushing air in and out of the lungs.

27. Question: What is a term used to describe a patient with no fever?

• Answer: Afebrile

28. Question: What does the term Bradycardia mean?

• Answer: Bradycardia describes the situation when a patient's heart rate drops below 60 beats per minute.

29. Question: What medical term describes damage to and diseases of the nervous system?

• Answer: Neuropathy

30. Question: Which fictional nurse is shown in the picture below?

31. Question: What word is used to describe the widening of blood vessels?

• Answer: Vasodilation

32. Question: What is the full form of PA in nursing?

• Answer: The term PA stands for Physician Assistant in nursing. 

33. Question: What one word is used to describe diseases and everything else related to Kidney?

• Answer: Renal

34. Question: What does the term Pharmacology describe?

• Answer: The word Pharmacology describes the way in which a drug interacts with the body.

35. Question: What does the instrument gurney mean in nursing or emergency room?

• Answer: A wheeled stretcher is used to transport patients into the emergency room.

36. Question: What is the word used to describe a collection of pus?

• Answer: Abscess.

37. Question: What slang term is used commonly by nurses to describe a person with multiple acute conditions?

• Answer: A Trainwreck

38. Question: What type of patient is described by Fluff My Pillow Syndrome in nurse slang?

• Answer: Patients expect nurses to cater to all their needs and want and act like divas.

39. Question: How would you describe the disease apnea in simple terms?

• Answer: Temporary halt in breathing, irregular breathing.

40. Question: What does the term Spasm describe?

• Answer: Painful and involuntary twitching and seizing of the muscles.

41. Question: Who do nurses refer to by using the slang slashers/cutters?

• Answer: Doctors/Surgeons

42. Question: What is an administered combination of the drugs Haldol, Benadryl, and Ativan collectively called?

• Answer: B-52s

43. Question: What does code brown refer to in nursing?

• Answer: A patient has recently passed a large load of bowel movement.

44. Question: What is the removal of tissue for an examination called?

• Answer: Biopsy.

45. Question: Which television series featured the nurse shown in the picture below?

46. Question: Which of the following terms refers to positioning a patient upright so their legs hang over the side of the bed with their feet on the floor?

• Answer: Dangling

47. Question: How would you describe Flower's position to a patient?

• Answer: Seated up at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees with the knees flexed. 

48. Question: What is the adult dose of naloxone in opioid poisoning?

• Answer: IV 0.4–2 mg PRN

49. Question: Tradition medicine Atropine is used to treat which poisoning?

• Answer: Organophosphorus poisoning. 

50. Question: Which is the drug of choice in Isoniazid (INH) toxicity?

• Answer: Pyridoxine