[JaredCNA]

Originally Posted by Pepper The Cat

Code 111 - extra hands needed (this one can be Code 111 RNs, Code 111 all available personnel,)

Like, our unit is short-staffed, I'm stressed and ******, we need more help!!! lol

I wish.

[GrumpyRN63]

Code 5= Adult resp/cardiac
Code 7= Peds "" "
Signal 11= Fire
Plan D= Disaster

[mmutk]

CODE PINK - baby taken
CODE BLACK- Bomb threat
CODE BLUE - Cardiac Arrest
CODE BLUEP- Peds Arrest
CODE YELLOW- Distater (level I or II)
CODE RED- Fire
CODE ORANGE - Helicopter incomming
CODE PURPLE- Hostage situation
CODE GREEN- Staff or Patient in danger
CODE WHITE- NBC exposure ( we are near a nuke plant)
CODE GRAY- Tornado

[mcknis]

Code 3-5 for cardiac/resp arrest.
Code 9 - violent pt

[EricEnfermero]

Code Blue - Cardiac arrest
Code Pink - Infant arrest
Dr. Save - Infant abduction
Dr. Pyro - Fire
Code Gray - Injured or ill visitor (non-arrest)

[DutchgirlRN]

My favorite is code brown for security. Everyone thinks it has something to do with bowel movements. Once when I was in charge they called a code brown in the front lobby. The security officer was walking by and I told him "Hey, you need to get to the front lobby like now". His eyes got big "I don't clean up stuff like that".

You would think that would be one of the first things they would learn in orientation. Go figure!

[elthia]

Code blue= cardiac/respiratory arrest
Code rapid= rapid response team
Code fleet= staff/visitor accident, fall, or emergency,
Code red= fire
Code pink= child/infant abduction
Code Adam= missing patient/child
Code spill= chemical, large body fluid spill
Dr. Armstrong= need security stat, unruly visitor, need help restraining pt

Tornado Watches/warnings and severe storm watch/warnings are announced as just that, no special code.
I tend to appreciate that, makes it easier to not have to argue with families when your pulling their loved one into the hallway bed and all because the family doesn't understand what Code Dorothy means.

[casi]

Code:
Red- fire
Orange- internal or external disaster (I've only seen it scrolled on TV when the 35W bridge collapsed, but never heard it called)
Black- Severe Weather
Green- Need for assistance combative pt
White- breach of confidential info-- not paged, but you are supposed to go up to a co-worker and say "code white" if they are saying something they shouldn't
Yellow- Bomb Threat
Baby- Infant abduction
Ten- department of corrections inmate escaped, from what I understand it's only been called once and it wasn't because a DOC pt escaped, but because a juvenial hall inmate escaped across the street and ran into the hospital.
Blue: Adult Arrest
Pink: Neonatal medical emergency
9: Medical emergency on grounds-- not pt tucked safely in their rooms
Zebra: Internal health alert -- not paged
Rapid Response

[Meri333]

Code Brown's for poop... really... haha. I think it's weird that every facility is slightly different. I think it should be a universal thing within the US that all hospital "codes" are the same.

[emeraldjay]

The facility I work in has just a few codes:
Code Blue - Cardiac arrest
Code Yellow - Fire
Code 44 - Workplace violence
Dr Strong - Nursing assistance needed
Dr Child - Missing child
Green Alert - Missing Resident