WDWN - do you use this abbreviation?

Nov 01, 2009 06:02 AM written by chrissypsychRN09 | 22 Comments

I was going through charts at work recently (chart checks, yay!) and found that nursing students were writing A&O x 4, WDWN in their notes. Now, I knew what A&O x 4 stood for but the WDWM puzzled my colleagues and I. I've now discovered that it stands for well developed, well nourished, but it's not something I would put in my individual patient notes and it's not an abbreviation I learned in nursing school. What do you all have to say about that? Was I just sheltered as a student?

Cassaundra · Nov 01, 2009, 06:12 AM

I was never tought to use it and I graduated in May. We were given a specific list of abbreviations that were "legal" and had a minor amount of leaway, but WDWN was not on the list.

*Meriwhen* · Nov 01, 2009, 06:22 AM

Never used it...never knew what it stood for until this thread, in fact

2ndwind · Nov 01, 2009, 06:38 AM

This past semester we were told to stop using abbreviations for anything - that most facilities were changing to being wordy.

blondy2061h · Nov 01, 2009, 06:45 AM

That definitely seems like something that was be more appropriate in an NP/PA/MD note than an RN note regardless of whether it's a legit abbreviation.

*Spidey's mom* · Nov 01, 2009, 06:50 AM

I didn't know what it stood for either. But the words are used by docs in the dictation re: patient visits.

It has been a few years but legally we cannot use abbreviations at all.

steph

*caliotter3* · Nov 01, 2009, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by blondy2061h

That definitely seems like something that was be more appropriate in an NP/PA/MD note than an RN note regardless of whether it's a legit abbreviation.

I remember reading a comment similar to this in my husband's last assessment, written by a doctor. I have stopped using abbreviations since one of my last employers stopped the practice with the list of nonapproved abbreviations.

caroladybelle · Nov 01, 2009, 07:38 AM

Never heard of this one.

*Spidey's mom* · Nov 01, 2009, 07:59 AM

I requested a copy of my ER visit and was kinda insulted when I saw that the doc wrote "Well developed, well nourished" . ..... I thought it was a way to say . . . FAT.

steph

EtoseLvr03 · Nov 01, 2009, 08:07 AM

I've never seen that abbreviation before. However, it looks like something the primary care physician would "write out" in their assessment.

WDWN - do you use this abbreviation?

WDWN - do you use this abbreviation?

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