Another one for my journal

DebanamRN, MSN, RN · Mar 28, 2012

Hysterical! Proof that we are not only nurses but detectives too!:rotfl:

Editorial Team / Moderator · Mar 28, 2012

Reminds me of the mother who said she'd given her daughter the "nipple-lizer." The what? Nipplelizer! What does that look like?? You know, you breathe it in... oh, a nebulizer. Hahahahaha.

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Mar 28, 2012

This woman came to the ER and told me she had centipede.
Centipede???
Yes, she had been admitted to ICU last month for
"centipede".
They changed her regular medicine, sent her to cardiac rehab. Now she had musculoskeletal aches and pains.
After pulling her medical record she had a big MI, coated, stents placed and
admitted to ICU with what started with her passing out.
With all that was going on she never heard "Heart Attack", Cardiac Catheterization,
Angioplasty or Stents. All she got out of it was SYNCOPE (a.k.a. Centipede)
Nursing education FAIL...

I want you laughing ICON..... :lol2: .

Where I come from that patient had just done fell out...... :smokin:

MyMystudentRN · Mar 28, 2012

hahahaha love it:lol2: :rotfl:

DemonWings · Mar 28, 2012

She had no clue she had an MI?!? That's so weird!!!

And the centipede is hilarious!!

sweetgeorgia · Mar 28, 2012

Wow that is so sad, but tooo funny!

Dixielee, BSN, RN · Mar 29, 2012

I want you laughing ICON......
Where I come from that patient had just done fell out......

Esme, we have many with the diagnosis of DFO (done fell out)! It's a very descriptive term and everyone here knows just what happened :)

Old.Timer · Mar 29, 2012

DFO's ususally start out as the W&D's ( weak and dizzies ) :)

Ruthfarmer · Mar 29, 2012

Where I come from, you can spot a DFO a mile away. The DFO is the lady wearing house slippers who shows up at the ER with 65 other people when her nephew has been shot or stabbed. Wearing the house slippers out in public means she will be a DFO.

Altra, BSN, RN · Mar 29, 2012

Where I come from, you can spot a DFO a mile away. The DFO is the lady wearing house slippers who shows up at the ER with 65 other people when her nephew has been shot or stabbed. Wearing the house slippers out in public means she will be a DFO.

:yeah: Love this!

Aliakey · Mar 29, 2012

We have a considerably large population of folks where English is a second language, so...

From an EMS side:

When dispatch types in "Family says pt has 'chicken breathe'", you can reasonably assume that it's not a case of "rooster halitosis", but instead "she-can't-breathe" was the chief complaint.

Responded to a patient who was brought to the ED earlier for "a sink of pee" (syncope) that hasn't improved. At 3 a.m., it didn't quite click in my head to forego asking the wife questions about the abnormalities of her husband's urine. Muffled snickers from my partner eventually clued me in :idea: . Duh.