Share your mnemonics and tricks

These are great! I've heard and used some, but many are new to me.

MONA - treatment for MI

Morphine
Oxygen
Nitroglycerin
Aspirin

Pt. is FOS--Full Of ****.

When I worked in OB and we had an especially demanding or obnoxious patient, I would put "PITA" on my worksheet next to her orders. It was a way to remind me to watch extra closely to everything I said and did with her and her baby.

I'd heard in nursing school that the letters "WNL" meant either "within normal limits" or "we never looked".

One of my old friends from OB once wrote "CMV" next to a patient's baby and I freaked thinking it meant cytomegalovirus, when she really mean cool mist vaporizer for the mom's cold!

Finally, if you ever hear that a patient is on Vermox and you don't remember what that med treats, think (in a thick German accent) Vermox is for the vorms!" (ringworm!)

CYA- cover your #$@
PIA- pain in the #$@

There are actually 2 memory notebooks of nursing now. I use both extensively. I graduate in May. At 44, you are never to old to be a nurse.. right! I am not CTD yet!

To apply a telemetry monitor:
White over right (top right shoulder)
Black beside the white (Over lt shoulder)
Checkers (red below the black)
Christmas (Green beside the red)
Then ofcourse, the brown will be in the middle!

for tele leads: salt, pepper, ketchup, guacamole (clockwise from right shoulder) leftover one goes in the middle

have also heard snow above grass and smoke above fire...

hand bones: Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle (can't remember the bones, tho!)

Get
Out of
My
E.
R.

(although usually it is used lovingly for the elderly)

Please
Excuse
My
Dear (or drunk)
Aunt
Sally

order of operations for math problems

Parenthesis, exponent, multiply, divide, add and subtract