[JSRN81]

I agree with calling to the specific unit, just not the EXACT room number. They used to call just wing and floor, say E5 or A6 south, but now they actually all it to A607b or something like that.


Jen

[MissJoRN]

I miss the Dr paging system... it was almost like an inside joke (not that those moments were funny) but patients and vistors never caught on. We haven't used that in a few years and I can't even remember what the "Dr's" names were, but there was never confusion since the names were made up and probably don't exist anywhere. I think fire might have been Dr Firebaum? No, seems too obvious...

Dr GYAT reminds me of something we learned early in nursing school (but we were never taught this!!) Before RACE fire protocol was standard we used RADAC (rescue-alert-dial help-?-extinguish) Someone once joked that he used RADAC in any emergency (Run Away! Don't Act Concerned) I still think of that every time I catch something wrong out of the corner of my eye and wish it could be "someone else's" problem. I never saw him follow his RADAC philosophy so I won't either!

I remember a nursing school instructor who worked in a hospital where code red was a trauma alert... so the first time she heard "code red ER" called at the clinical site she sent 2 of her senior students to observe. (they had been instructed prior on how to un-obtrusivley observe codes) She later got a mild reprimand for sending two innocent students to a fire!! (false alarm)

[RNin2007]

Code Red ...well that's the hubby yellin' that we are outta ketchup! hehe...


~J

[ak47m203]

rp means republic of the philippines. my other hospital is code 99 for arrest.

Originally Posted by suzanne4

Where is rp?

[WVUturtle514]

Code 99 - cardiac/respiratory arrest
Code Pink - infant/child abduction
Code Grey - elderly person missing and/or abducted
Code Orange - bio/terrorist threat
Code Black - bomb threat
Code Red - fire

At my hospital they stopped calling pediatric codes over the intercom system b/c they said it made people too upset and frantic, but then they changed it after they realized that people will usually respond MUCH faster if they know it's a pediatric code.

[Ivanna_Nurse]

we just switched to code red for fire and code blue for resp/cardiac arrest. used to be green grass and code 99

[Balder_LPN]

Code Strong - Restraint team

[tonet0908]

At our hospital the codes are:

CODE ADAM=PEDIATRIC ABDUCTION
#7=EXTERNAL DISASTER
#4=INTERNAL DISASTER
#5=SECURITY
126=CARDIAC OR PULMONARY ARREST

I had to look on the back of my ID for these. The only one I knew was 126 because I hear that all the time.

[TriageRN_34]

Let me see if I can remember...LOL, lucky for me they have signs posted in all nursing break rooms and by the pixis (I am agency so different facilities have different code colors).

Red means fire
Blue means cardiopulmonary arrest
Green means violence
Pink means infant abduction
Purple means natural disaster
Black Triage I means emergency staffing need r/t overflow or divert status.
Black Triage II - III I don't remember but has to do with emergency to the facility itself and need for staff to gather or more staff needed STAT, but I think III is related to terrorism or threat of terrorism.

Of course us nurses have our own codes too, in the privacy of the nursing break room only, or when you need to say something about the patient but people are around so you speak in code...code brown means poopie mess, yellow means urine mess, code gold is emisis mess, silver is doc in the house, code block is a demented/aggressive tendency, code marathon is extremely needy patient that wil have you running for things every 5 minutes. Code star is a perfect patient. and ECT is a dying patient making their way to the eternal care unit (said with respect too...not a diss, it is a nice thought to be in the eternal care unit of the Lord).

Of course there are others, but said very tongue and cheek when things are hectic....but we won't go there here..LOL!

And in the event that an overhead message can not be given (like in terrorism) the colors are paged by number to all pagers...like in the list above...01 means red, 02 means code...etc. Scary though to have that huh????

[Athenas83]

I'm not a nurse yet, but when I volunteered on the med/surg floor they would call out Mayday on the intercome when someone codes, and all the nurses and doctors run to the room. Mayday?? lol