AllNurses Abbreviations

[AllieSparksRN]

I'd like to start a helpful thread. We throw around abbreviations left and right and while some of them seem incredibly obvious, not everyone knows what they mean, plus we have new people joining all the time. Let's make the new people feel welcome and let's help those of use who can't remember what everything stands for :) .

Simply post the abbreviation(s) you use or see and write what it means. No comments or discussion needed are here. If this is successful, maybe Admin can make it a sticky?

Thanks for your anticipated contributions,

Allie

AN = AllNurses

OP = Original Post/Original Poster

COB = Crusty Old Bat

[Mavrick, BSN, RN]

NETY = Nurses eat their young

PP = Previous post

IDK = I don't know

SAHM = Stay at home mom

SMH = Shake my head

OTOH = On the other hand

HIPPA = Error in abbreviating HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

WOW =Workstation on wheels

SNF=Skilled nursing facility

MAR = Medicine administration record

NCLEX = National council license exam

PVT = PearsonVue trick

ATI = Academic testing institute

HESI = Health education services institute

TEAS = Test of essential academic skills

[cracklingkraken, ASN, RN]

SMH = Slap my head

I thought SMH means shaking my head......

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

I thought SMH means shaking my head......

Yeah, me too. I had to look it up when I first came across it.

And many others too.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

OP = original poster, original post

YMMV = your mileage may vary

ROTFL = rolling on the floor laughing

IMHO = in my honest opinion; in my humble opinion

IMO = in my opinion

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

PITA---Pain In The A$$

CTD---Circling The Drain

Gomer---Get Out Of My Emergency Room

JMHO---Just My Honest (humble) Opinion

IKR---I Know, Right?

[abbnurse]

DH on AN means "dear husband" but I thought it meant something else. And not "designated hitter" even though I'm a Giants fan!

I only knew the term "DH" to mean "designated hitter" , so it took me a while to figure out what it meant on AN ! (I'm a baseball fan, too )

[aeris99]

IIRC- if I recall (remember) correctly

[Farawyn]

I only knew the term "DH" to mean "designated hitter" , so it took me a while to figure out what it meant on AN ! (I'm a baseball fan, too )

Yea. Agree.

Also, deers husband is not in my vernacular!

I refer to him here as the hubs.

[aeris99]

IHIWTH- I hate it when that happens.

[nursel56]

Some more old school message board or bulletin board (BB) lingo that is based on the usenet boards which are older than the www (or the wuh-wuh-wuh) according to a humorous parody of a PSA wherein a LOL tries to figure out analog to digital television conversion.

As mentioned, OP, plus PP for previous poster, also mentioned DH, plus DD, DS etc for the other family members

Before there was a "laugh out loud" there was a for grin and a for something funnier and even a and so forth.

I know fellow ancient ones may remember others from that era.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Or . . .Laugh out loud!

As a new nursing student, it was hard to get used to SOB.

Shortness of breath.

DH on AN means "dear husband" but I thought it meant something else. And not "designated hitter" even though I'm a Giants fan!

When I watch baseball with my dad I always call the designated hitter the designated batter. Drives him nuts. I just feel like designated hitter is too much pressure and overly optimistic!

[Farawyn]

When I watch baseball with my dad I always call the designated hitter the designated batter. Drives him nuts. I just feel like designated hitter is too much pressure and overly optimistic!

I LOVE this.