Nurse Retirement Quiz
Wondering if it is time to hand in your stethoscope and call it a day? Take our Nurse Retirement Quiz and find out!
- 1.
The last time The Joint Commission was at your facility, you:
- A.
Were on a planned leave for elective surgery
- B.
Wowed them with your nurse mojo
- C.
Only had to look at a cheat sheet/card once
- D.
Had irritable bowel until they left
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- 2.
Have you ever seen Insulin Shock Therapy administered?
- A.
Yes
- B.
Insulin Shock therapy administered on purpose, no. Insulin Shock Therapy administered unintentionally due to first year resident stupidity, yes.
- C.
No
- D.
What is Insulin Shock Therapy?
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- 3.
Your experience with Iron Lungs:
- A.
I've worked with patients in Iron Lungs
- B.
I know that Iron Lungs were used for polio patients in the 1940s and 1950s
- C.
I've seen pictures of Iron Lungs
- D.
Iron Lung is a rock band, right?
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- 4.
When you think about the people in your charge during your workday, what word do you use to preface the word ‘patient’?
- A.
$*&#+%! ($*&#+%! patients...)
- B.
Darned (darned patients...)
- C.
Those (those patients...)
- D.
My (My patients...)
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- 5.
When you think about the physicians you work with, what word do you use to preface the word 'doctor'?
- A.
$*&#+%! ($*&#+%! doctors...)
- B.
Darned (darned doctors...)
- C.
Those (those doctors...)
- D.
My (My doctors...)
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- 6.
How many times have you dropped glass thermometers and had to go around chasing those little silver mercury balls?
- A.
So many times, I probably contain more mercury than a Pacific tuna
- B.
Dozens of times
- C.
Five or ten times
- D.
I didn't know they made thermometers out of glass
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- 7.
What is the only way to give a really serious enema?
- A.
Get a student to do it
- B.
H...H...H
- C.
Double Fleets
- D.
Fleet Enema Extra
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- 8.
Which of the following movie/TV nurse portrayals do you most identify with?
- A.
Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
- B.
Jessie Brewer, General Hospital
- C.
Helen Rosenthal, Saint Elsewhere
- D.
Carla Espinosa, Scrubs
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- 9.
If they took off your life, minute for minute, the amount of time you’ve spent reconciling narcotic counts over the course of your career, how much time would you have left on this earth?
- A.
Technically, I'd be dead already
- B.
I definitely won't see 100 years of age
- C.
I think I'll make it to Social Security
- D.
Plenty of time, I'm not worried at all
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- 10.
Images of my nursing school graduation are:
- A.
In black and white photos
- B.
In color photos
- C.
On video
- D.
In a cell phone
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