Common nicknames for hospital items.

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Just wanted to see if the nicknames we call certain items are the same names you guys call them lol. I work in the midwestern region.

Examples include:

1.) "Bubblier" for humidifier

2.) "Ice pack" for the polar pack and the original ice pack

3.) "Patches" for tele electrodes

4.) "Stickers" for labels

5.) "Booties" for spenco boots

6.) "Christmas tree" for O2 connector

That is all I can think of at the moment. Feel free to add to the list. I am looking forward to seeing new nicknames I haven't heard before :)

Where I live we call the incontenint underpads "duckies" (unsure why) when a person was incontent of stool it was a "code brown", but now code brown means a missing adult patient.

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Where I live we call the incontenint underpads "duckies" (unsure why) when a person was incontent of stool it was a "code brown", but now code brown means a missing adult patient.

Maybe because the nurse caring for the missing patient has had their own code brown and after the patient is found will need to change scrubs?

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Really? Our code brown is a chemical spill.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

My mom needs to go to the cath lab after a negative stress test.

She called it a roto rooter. :yeah: She has such a great attitude. I hope it goes well.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.

Lol Yah coochie cocktail is supposed to deter pts from needing std tx in the future, but unfortunately some now come in and ask for it by name lol

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we use "christmas trees" and have frequent fliers too.

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Anyone ever refer to the hospital mesh panties as 'Victoria Secrets'?

I call them "Victoria Has-No-Secret"

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

Sequential compression boots: Squeezies.

Most things: Thingy.

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Moliform Premium Liners - Normal

Honest I never heard it call Molly before, 2/Funny :D

I am thinking it is a play on this brand name...

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New england....a Bubbler is the water fountain. It's a stretcher not a gurney. It's a Johnnie not a patient gown. It not a "christmas tree" (I'm originally from the midwest) but a nipple connector. It Guaiac not hemoccult. It's a mucous trap not Luki tube (sputum spec. for a vented patient). The Au Pair is the baby sitter. It's soda not Pop, a float not milk shake, and Jimmies not sprinkles.

Triple H enema (high hot and a heckof a lot) and Banana Bags(IV MVI/folate?Mg detox bags). We have Vitamin H, Vitamin V and Vitamin A. We have positive samsonite signs (comes with luggage) and DBQ (dirt bag quotient).

GI cocktail green or pink. (maalox/viscous lido/belladonna (green) or phenobarb (pink)

Just to name a few

hmmm, I am in NE, and I was taught christmas tree. though "nipple conector" is prob the actual term (from plumbing, I would think). And a float is actually soda with ice cream floating in it. A "black cow" is a root beer float....a milk shake has no ice cream, a frappe is with ice cream.....lol

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Specializes in Cardiac.

MOM + Prune Juice = "Mud Slide"

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Maalox + viscous lidocaine is a "pink lady"

Liquid oral morphine or codeine are called "slurpees"

The little device that connects the secondary IV tubing to the primary set is officially called a "lever lock cannula", but way back in nursing school my clinical instructor introduced it to us as "the little yellow doomahicker"

Patient bibs are "dinner jackets"

I like to refer to wheelchairs as "chariots" and porters as "chauffeurs"

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