a few more abbreviations?

semstr · Sep 24, 2001

Since the hospitals here in Vienna, won't have those lists, can you please tell me.

I've been looking at so many pages, but there is not one, which explains the abbr. behind the nurses names.

I myself am called Dipl. (that stands for diploma) nurse.

Take care, Renee

dtweed · Sep 25, 2001

lIn one facility I worked in, they adopted a whole book of medical abbreviations. On very, very slow nights, when all the extra cleaning was done, we would make up stories using the abbreviations. The best one was bthoom. It stands for "beats the hell out of me." Dctors were able to use this for a diagnosis. I think we know some doctors who used this all the time because thay didn't have a clue. But their are some great docs out there also

BrandyBSN · Sep 25, 2001

hmmm.... yeah, i might have to agree. Crack that text! What did they teach you in the first year? Not to be mean, really, Im just really wondering??

OneChattyNurse · Sep 25, 2001

I am not trying to be mean...but I learned alot of the abbreviations in my one month CNA class I took several years ago before nursing school!!! It is kinda scary that in the second year this is not known. Have you not pased meds yet...or read Physician orders. How do you manage even reading the charts without knowing medical abbreviations???

Shari

misti_z · Sep 25, 2001

Yeah, like Carole, I've been waiting for an update....

So.....??

KRVRN, BSN, RN · Sep 25, 2001

When I was little my mom would tell me that if I can't say anything nice, I shouldn't say anything at all...

So what if she SHOULD know those. So what if she should just go look them up. Maybe she doesn't have the book for some reason. Maybe she just discovered this site and thought "wow, these nurses are all so nice, I'll ask them." We don't know what she's learning in school. I doubt she posted her question to be blasted for it.

Bozo180 · Sep 25, 2001

Good for you, frappa^ for asking the questions. It never ceases to amaze me just how quick some nurses are to jump down the throats of their own kind. Remember, we were all students once and I have no doubt that you all, like me, asked the occasional "stupid" question all in the name of furthering your own knowledge and hoping that one day you would make a good nurse.

KRVRN - it's refreshing to see somebody else defending their own trade/profession.

Frappa^, you've learned a valuable lesson...... nurses are one of the most vindictive groups of people out there in the working world. Another lesson for you......the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

semstr · Sep 25, 2001

Frappa,

there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!

Don't worry, I notice in my students, that as soon as they finish their training, they think they are the best and forget all about themselves being freshmen not too long ago!

(Well not all of them, thank God)

So , please ask, ask, ask, before you do something you're not sure about and endanger the patient and/ or yourself

Take care, Renee

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · Sep 25, 2001

It's good to ask the question, but makes more sense to find a source for the answers yourself, so you'll be able to find the answers independently the next time.

I find it hard to believe that there is no policy book, or even a medical dictionary around to consult. If students were to come here with every abbreviation they find (prn? please...)we could start a new web site. I think we should demand some individual accountability, as well as helping out those who come with honest questions.

BrandyBSN · Sep 25, 2001

oh, i agree that it is good to ask questions. and no, i havent forgot what it was like to be a freshman, it was only 3 years ago. But I do think that sometimes it is necessary to look up things on your own. We had a test on abbreviations before we even went to the hospital and before we even looked at a patients chart. And now Frap has a patient assignment, and is just now trying to figure out what the basic abbrevs are? Some docs handwriting is hard enough to read even when you DO know the abbrevs. And by the second year of ANY program, adn or bsn, these should have been covered by now.

kimberle · Sep 25, 2001

Hi! I know just recently at the hospital I work at, they're discouraging abbreviations. Especially with procedures, they want the entire words written out, esophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy, not EGD. I don't know if it's an insurance thing, or initiated r/t high frequency of medical lawsuits anymore or what... Just an aside. I had to laugh when a doctor wrote for "Accurate I&O". I told him we could only do inaccurate I&O. (All of our patients are on I&O on our unit.)

TracyB,RN, RN · Sep 25, 2001

Frap, get some index cards & make flashcards. trust me,

it will help as long as you do it. I also made my own flashcards

for stuff like lab values, etc.