Terms we will not admit to using

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You all have heard of them and of course we never actually use any of these terms but somehow they are there and everyone knows them.......

There the "unofficial" abbreviation list

like

FLK Funny Looking Kid

or

Craft syndrome - Can't Remember A Flippin' Thing

PFO - clean version - Potted (Drunk) and Fell Over

AHD - Acute Haloperidol Deficit

Or the pseudomedical jargon for describing patient peculiarities i.e.

Mononeuronis Asynapsis

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy (thanks TeeitupTom)

Acute Hyponicotaemia (busting for a cigarette)

Does anyone know anymore??

Okay can anyone add to this list

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

Vitamin H- Haldol!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

IGTGP-I got to go pee

TFTB-To fat to breathe

GPO-Good for Parts only

NQR-Not quite right as in "Im not sure what this rhythm is but its NQR."

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy - airhead

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

dilaudidemia-drug seeker/dilaudid levels low.

demerolemia-demerol levels low.

percoemia-percocet levels low.

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Specializes in CTICU, Interventional Cardiology, CCU.

ok I got this one in college while getting my undergrad B.S., and it was way before I ever thought about Nursing although now I am an R.N.with multiple degrees, but I still find it so ridiclosly funny and use it to this day..F.U.P.A.=Fat Upper ***** Area, and in college years ago we used to use that saying to refer to the girls that were crazy skinny, and would insist on wearing the most skin tight pants, and had this thing below the stomach, but wasn't a beer gut, it was this thing that we couldn;t describe, and one of my 13 housemates, (yea 13 girls living under one roof and no my college did not have sorites or frats) one night in a druken rant said F.U.P.A., I said what the **** is that? She said what it was, and I think I wet my pants b/c I was laughing so hard. It had nothing to do with having kids, or loosing an extreme amt. of weight, but it had to do with anorexic college girls, bindge drinking around that time of the month wearing SKIN tight pants, which I used to be one of those anorexic college kids always bindge drinking, but never wearing SKIN tight clothes anytime of the month. And to this day sometimes I catch myself saying it, at WORK as an RN and laughing when I have to explain what it is.

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Specializes in Vascular Surgery.

Alright, how about:

- Milk of Amnesia - Propofol

- Gravity Assisted Concrete Poisoning - jumped from height

- Hi 5 - HIV positive

- Urban Outdoorsman - Homeless person

- Bungee jumper - a patient who pulls on his catheter tube

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Specializes in Medical, Pediatric and ER.

Withdrawal -- EMS picking up a patient

Deposit -- EMS bringing in a patient

DRT -- Dead Right There

DRH -- Dead Right Here

OTD -- Out The Door

Code Brown -- You can guess this one:chuckle

TMI -- Too Much Information

Circling The Drain

"They're on their way to their Heavenly home"

"Norm-al-la-sine" -- Normal Saline (Good if you tell a patient you are giving this for pain ((with a doctors order of course)). They think it is a new pain medication. We actually had a patient (a FF) to say their pain got better :roll)

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.
Code Brown.....self explanatory

Nintendo Thumb.....reason why pulse ox. monitor continuously rings off

Annjeh

We (and I assume other hospitals) have an official "Code Brown". It is a missing patient. It's posible that no nurse was consulted when these color codes were assigned but maybe- I can imagine the response to discovering one of your confused patients has gone wandering is "Oh ****"= code brown.

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.
SAS = "Sick as ****" I use this one frequently

DOV = Dead on Vent, for those that we are breathing for them, making their heart beat etc....

We usually ad a "B"- DBOV= dead body on vent.

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.

I can't believe no one has posted JMD=as in the patient has a bad case of Japanese Monster Disease. A patient on deaths' door that has become so fluid overloaded that their sclera edema is so pronounced it looks like ping pong balls, there tongue is hanging out and looks like a large baked potato, profound facial edema- Generally a Godzila like appearance.

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KTC: kick to curb

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Specializes in Emergency.

When I worked in animal medicine (before nursing), we used these terms:

DIC=Death is Coming

Peek and Shriek (for a surgery where you open the pt up, shriek because the problem is irreparable, and close them without doing anything).

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How about a foreverplasty? Refers to all the cases the "known slow surgeon" does!

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