When entering orders, please remember....

[RNBearColumbus]

That It's a pommel cushion, not pummel cushion. A pommel is the part of a saddle that prevents a cowboy from sliding forward, while pummel means to beat something repeatedly, usually with ones fists. I'm not beating a chair cushion, no matter how mad I am at it.

Please enter an order for a MAT to the floor to prevent injury, not a MATT to the floor. My friend Matt is not going to lay next to the resident's bed and catch them if they fall.

It's STRAIGHT cath, not STR8 cath. It's a medical record, not a Grinder profile

Anyone else see things in orders or charting that makes you LOL?

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

I've never seen or even heard natal cleft. I tend to use gluteal fold.

When I think gluteal fold, I think off "under the butt cheek", like where the elastic of the leg hole of your underwear sit, not "butt crack". Am I wrong?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

When I think gluteal fold, I think off "under the butt cheek", like where the elastic of the leg hole of your underwear sit, not "butt crack". Am I wrong?

you are correct.

[kysmommyrn, BSN]

I used to work with a nurse who would write "insensitive spirometer 10x every hour" on the whiteboard plan of care. I always wondered what the poor IS ever did to her to deserve that title.

[sissiesmama, ASN, RN]

I recently saw the word "babymama" in a nursing note.

Hahahaha!

[Donnagg123]

how about "shortness of breathe" ..... it is shortness of breath!