From the mouths of non-nurses

I was a lil bit tearful after the birth of my second baby. I was young, now had two kids under age 3, and the baby had been readmitted for bili light therapy the day after we were discharged home... My husband went to my work to pick up my check and of course everyone asked how we were doing. I can only immagine the looks on my coworkers faces when he told em... "not good.... she's got that post mortum depression"

OMG now I have to clean my computer screen - "a tiki eye" and "post mortum depression"

LoL

This happened when I worked as a tech on a stepdown ICU floor. One day I saw a few of the nurses all huddled together hysterically laughing. So I went over to find out what was so funny. Well one of the interns or residents had written an order for K+ for the patient that had hypopotassemia. I believe he had even discussed with the patients nurse the order so not only did he write it, but he talked about it. Unbelievable .

What'm I missing here? I don't get it.

Low potassium is called hypokalemia, not hypopotassemia. He should have learned that in medical school at least. The chemical symbol for potassium is K.

Oh, I see now. I've seen it both ways -- some of our older docs do say "hypopotassemia" and it is a valid term. I've also seen the chemical symbol for K also written as K+ due to its chemical structure. http://www.online-medical-dictionary...Hypopotassemia

OMG these are hilarious!

When I was working OB a young husband came running down the hall from the shower room hollaring..."We need help in there...my wife just passed her liver in the shower!!" I have to admit, it was a pretty big clot!

Our communications center folks are not medically trained. When they take calls from EMS and then type the complaint on our ambulance board, the results can be quite humorous. My two favorites are "Grandma seizure" and "Sinkable episode."

Some of my faves:
-Trichomannassas
-Antecubical
-Hyena Hernia
-Trash (thrush lol)
-Someone told my coworker their doctor told them the next time their virgina bled this bad, they would need an appalachian lol