[hhrhrn41]

Here are ours.....


Dr. Stat...... for a non-lifethreatening situation, such as a patient or family fall

Dr. GYAT (an old time doctor came up with this which stands for "Get Your -SS There") ... for a cardiac arrest/resp arrest

Dr. CARE....for a violent patient or family member

Code Elvis.....for a patient that has escaped off the unit

Code Yellow....for a natural disaster that has hit the building


To access the above codes and employee has to dial 7777 from any phone and announce the paticular code two times over the PA system. ex...Dr.Gyat room 305A, Dr.Gyat room 305A. But before you announce the code, after dialing the sevens, these god awful tones go off throughout the building.

[thumperRN]

Condition Blue - cardiac or resp arrest (or simply if you want to get some help STAT!!)

Condition Purple - violent situation

Conditoin Rainbow - abducted child

Condition Red - fire

Condition White - Bioterrorism

Condition Yellow - disaster

[cnolan]

Code 99: Resp/Cardiac Arrest
Code Black: Bomb
Code Red: Fire
Code Pink: Child Abduction
Code Green: Violent Weather

[melanie1126]

Code Stat- codes
Code Pink - infant abduction
Code Orange - Fire
Code Black - power outage
Code Alert - implementation of mass casualty plan
Code 99-bomb threat
Code 100- Violent situation, security and all available male nursing respond

[Rayrae]

i like the "code elvis".... never heard that one before

ours that I can remember are code 99 for cardiac/resp. arrest or any serious medical emergency, code red for fire, code boy/girl for missing patient, a particular name we give a patient who is "no information" for their door and chart, and code green for security. i know there are more, just can't remember them.

[allele]

I don't remember all of them, which is awful, but I know most.

Code blue: cardiac/respiratory arrest (or if a patient pulls out their trach we a code blue to get the appropriate people there STAT
Code red: fire
Code pink: infant abduction
Code grey: security
Code grey 2: non-violent crisis interevention
Code green: evacuation
Code orange: haz-mat

and I know there's a code for disaster which MAY be a Code yellow, can't remember. And I think we have a code black for bomb threat or violent situation. They're on the back of my name tag and fortunately I haven't heard them!!

[HappyNurse2005]

Seriously, Code Elvis? Ok, that's as funny as calling mayday for a code.

Or Dr Gyat? also very funny.

[JSRN81]

We have the general code blue, red, assist, ect at our hospital. One thing they changed recently is the fact that they called a room number when they call a Code Blue. I do understand the point behind it (allowing the team to know where the patient is...) but I think it can cause more panic and anxiety than is needed, especially if a family is present in house somewhere. I understand that families should know that their family member is very ill, but they don't deserve to find out like that! I would rather have someone standing at the end of a hallway or stairs or something directing people where to go, or like someone else mentioned, follow the crowd...for the most part, unless you are in some secluded spot, you'll find it as long as you get to the right floor or unit. I think just hearing a code blue doesn't alarm families in the hospital as much as if all of a sudden they hear their families room number called over the speaker!

Jen

[L&Dnurse2Be]

We don't use "code". A cardiac arrest is Dr. Leo or Dr. Pedi Leo. Everything else goes by "signals". Red signal, fire. Black signal, bomb threat. White signal, external/internal disaster, Orange signal, chemical spill etc. We have a few others but honestly I would have to look at the cheat sheet on my badge to remember them!

[EDValerieRN]

Originally Posted by L&Dnurse2Be

We don't use "code". A cardiac arrest is Dr. Leo or Dr. Pedi Leo. Everything else goes by "signals". Red signal, fire. Black signal, bomb threat. White signal, external/internal disaster, Orange signal, chemical spill etc. We have a few others but honestly I would have to look at the cheat sheet on my badge to remember them!

Blue: Cardiac Arrest
Pink: Peds Code
Yellow: Infant abduction
Black: Bomb threat
Green: Natural/Terrorist disaster outside hospital
Purple: Very sick patient on the way in, or code coming in (usually for multisystem traumas or cath lab patients)
Red: Fire
We also have Trauma Team 1 and Trauma Team 2 called when level one services are needed.

As for calling codes overhead... I agree with you. The problem is that we have a giant hospital, so it wouldn't be feasible for us to have people in stairways directing. We really have to call it overhead. ER, PICU, NICU, and other ICU's handle their codes in-unit, so they aren't called.
To those that call stuff Dr. Whatever... what if you have a doctor that has that name? If you need Dr. Leo to come to 4 North, would the code team respond as well?