Share your mnemonics and tricks

[Teachchildren123]

Here's a few that I have found:

HYPOGLYCEMIA: TIRED

T Tired

I Irritability

R Restless

E Excessive hunger

D Diaphoresis-Depression

HEART MURMURS: SPASM

S Stenosis

P Partial obstruction

A Aneurysms

S Septal defect

M Mitral regurgitation

Thanks for sharing! Knowledge make us stronger.

[BradleyRN]

7 Signs of cancer= CAUTION!

Change in bowel or bladder habits.

A sore that will not heal.

Unusual bleeding or discharge.

Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere.

Indigestion or difficulty swallowing.

Obvious change in a wart or mole.

Nagging cough or hoorificeness.

[DaveMac]

ER nurses may know this one for broken bones -

BATS Fracture - Broke All To ****.

My favorite one is one I use in life also, learned this one while on Subs in the Navy as an ET in the Navigation Center -

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

For those special patients -

PITA - Pain In The A$$.

When we could still use OS, OU, OD, etc, I had a hard time at first remembering left, right, and both. My study group in school was at AppleBees to study and as I poured my beer from the pitcher it foamed up. I looked at the student beside me and said that I had lots of SUDS. Then it hit me. -

SUD - Left-Both-Right. That was in 93 and I still remember it that way.

[Morettia2, BSN, RN]

Cranial Nerves

Oh Olfactory Some

Oh Optic Say

Oh Oculomotor Marry

To Trochlear Money

Touch Trigeminal But

And Abducens My

Feel Facial Brother

Virgin Vestibulocochlear Says

Girl's Glossopharangeal Big

Violins Vagus Breasts

Ah Accessory Mean

Heaven Hypoglossal More

For the third column, S stands for sensory, M for motor, and B is both. Also, you have one nose, so Olfactory is CNI, two eyes, so optic is CNII. To remember which order the As come in, ABducens comes before ACcessory alphabetically.

And yes, I know the original version is not "violins". :stone

HAHAHAHA OMG When I was in NS school I came up with something VERY VERY similar

Oh

Oh

Oh

To

Touch

And

Feel

Very

Good

lady partss

Ah

Ha

We were sitting there in Group study Anatomy 3 years ago almost 4 years ago, before a test and I whipped this puppy out of my brain with out hesistation, b/c we couldn't remember them for the life of us. Let me say that during the test when you had to name the cranial nerves you could hear each person laugh. And to this day 3 years later every time I name the cranial nerves I actually write this out on paper, and some of my old classmates e-mail me and tell me how at work they do the same as their fellow RN's look and think they are crazy or just perverted!!

[beachmom]

For the 3 lead monitors we use in peds -

"white on the right, smoke over fire." (red above black on the left)

For the five leads, the white lead becomes "clouds over grass," the green lead. Brown goes in the hole in the middle.

I learned this in nursing school, when the teacher couldn't remember which way to screw something in. A student told her, "righty tighty, lefty loosy." Afterwards I taught my kids that.

We learned that if you come into ER with an MI, MONA meets you at the door with cookies: Morphine, Oxygen, Nitro and Aspirin. (The cookies just make it sound better.)

[frenchfroggyAPRN, MSN, LPN, RN, APRN]

I explained to a LOL who had diarrhea not to drink apple juice. "But I always drink apple juice". I told her APPLE JUICE MAKES THE BOWELS LOOSE she laughed so hard her teeth fell out of her mouth.

[azhiker96, BSN, RN]

for cranial nerves;

occasionally olfactory

our optic

old occulomotor

tired trochlear

truck trigeminal

acts abducens

funny, facial

very vestibulocochlear

good glossopharangeal

vehicle vagus

any accessory

how hypoglossal

[guest135581]

N - Naproxen

S - Salicylates

A - Advil

I - Ibuprofen

D - Diclofenac

S - Sulinclac

8 A's for Hepatotoxic Drugs (Check SGPT/SGOT)

Antituberculosi

Anticonvulsant

S - sodium Luminal

G - gabapentin

P - phenytoin

T - tegretol

Anticancer

Aspirin

Alcohol

Antifamily (contraceptice pills)

Acetaminophen

Aflatoxins

[guest135581]

N - Naproxen

S - Salicylates

A - Advil

I - Ibuprofen

D - Diclofenac

S - Sulinclac

8 A's for Hepatotoxic Drugs (Check SGPT/SGOT)

Antituberculosi

Anticonvulsant

S - sodium Luminal

G - gabapentin

P - phenytoin

T - tegretol

Anticancer

Aspirin

Alcohol

Antifamily (contraceptice pills)

Acetaminophen

Aflatoxins

Breast self examination (i made a song out of this)

♫ ♪ ♪ ♫1 little 2, little 3 little fingers

Do BSE 7 days after menses

Press nipple once check for discharge

Call your doctor

I'm sure you will do it more...♫ ♪ ♪ ♫

[lilhelper]

For the metric system:

My mega, 6

Kids kilo, 3

Holler hecto, 2

Daily deka, 1

U (You) unit

Don't deci, -1

Create centi, -2

Much milli, -3

More micro, -6

Noise nano, -9

Please! pico, -12

[Aspiringnurse_1111]

it was indeed helful thank u =)