Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

EDRN2BE · Nov 23, 2005

I worked with a doc his name was Dr. Brown and I would always call him DB well after a couple of dirty looks and people looking at me like what the @#$& are you talking about where is the dead body I stopped calling him that. Which sucked cause I think he liked it. He was so great when we would have a cardiac or respiratory arrest come in it always seemed to happen right when he got there. He had a lovely song "Great way to start the day with a DOA"

(snapping fingers and signing):uhoh21:

EDRN2BE · Nov 23, 2005

thank you for that.

EDRN2BE · Nov 23, 2005

For those of you that have missed this type of thread in the past, I have a pretty good list of these "acronyms and abbreviations", approx 14 pages worth....so if anyone wants a copy please let me know. :)

I would love a list of those if it isnt too late.

Please. Thank you

nrscindy · Nov 23, 2005

CRS = Can't Remember Sh!t! (for our change in mental status pts)

DOB= dead on the bed--- Hey it worked!!! my first reply!!!! How proud I am. Now if i could only type

Anernurse2b · Dec 17, 2005

I would also like a copy of the 'list'.

When I first started as a clerk in the ER 5 years ago, the slang by the medics/RNs was shocking to me as well. I graduate from nursing school in the spring, and agree with the postings... humor is the best. Amber, these are (usually) used tactfully and privately. :coollook:

If any of you remember the song "Alloutte"... we sang it as kids... well there is a new version:

Intubation, rapid intubation

Intubation, mechanical airway.

FIrst you take a rubber hose

Then you shove it down the nose

O'er the tongue

Towards the lung,

OOOOO.....

Intubation, mechanical ventilation

Intubation, save a life today!

(Unfortunately, I made that up after a shift with an unusually high quantity of intubations) :rolleyes:

mshooha · Dec 17, 2005

OK guys and gals, but I had to share one...
Sorry if it's a repeat, but I couldn't read through all of these.
Whenever we have to assist the doctor with a pelvic exam we say we are going to "Busch Gardens". :rotfl:

LOL!!!!!!!!!

geekgolightly, BSN, RN · Dec 24, 2005

DBI = dirt bag index which is the patients number of teeth divided by number of tatoos (jailhouse and homemade tatoos get counted twice)

LMAO!!

bethem · Dec 24, 2005

In some cases I believe that these accroynms are okay. Its the one that are making fun of death that upset me. Like "Dead dosn't know" it! I just think that is appaling. how can nurses say this about other people. I aggree that nurses need to let off steam and relax expecially after a hard case but not to make fun of death or someones interpertation of reality. In Australia people hold nurses in such high regard and I couldnt imagine any of my co-workers saying this about any patient. Its disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!

Amber, I'm a student nurse in Oz too, and trust me, our Aussie sense of humour can come up with a lot worse! In tutorials in first year, a tutor told us a few - like SOB SOB SOB: Silly old bugger sitting on bed short of breath; FLK from FLP: funny looking kid from funny looking parents; some of the death ones that have been mentioned before. I can't remember all of them, but they were funny.

I'd like to know how far along in your nursing degree you are? In the interests of transparency, I start third year in Feb. I also work as an undergrad AIN.

MacERRN · Dec 24, 2005

GIve them a "B52" (5mg Haldol 2mg Ativan)

Code Pink (Babe in the depatment)

HBT (High Bit%H Titer)

Amber_student_nurse · Dec 26, 2005

Hi Bethem

Im in my second year of nursing, I do find most of these funny and have heard of these myself. Its just the ones about death that I find upseting, some of them are pretty sick. But each to their own and just know that in my nursing career I will not be using remarks like "dead does not know it" kind of jokes.

bjlee · Dec 26, 2005

how about this order:

Pillow to face, titrate to flopping

bjlee · Dec 26, 2005

oh yeah, effectiveness can be measured with a STAT PTT = pillow tolerance test..