what is CDL

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Hello everyone,

I am a new nurse just started working a week ago. I saw "CDL" on a charting paper. I asked the nurse what it means, but I forgot when I got home -_- Can anyone help me out? Thanks!!!!

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Commercial Driver's License? ;)

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California Driver's License in some cases.

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Hello everyone,

I am a new nurse just started working a week ago. I saw "CDL" on a charting paper. I asked the nurse what it means, but I forgot when I got home -_- Can anyone help me out? Thanks!!!!

I'm a Swedish nurse and I haven't got a clue what it means but I googled "CDL medical abbreviation" and got:

closed duodenal loop

choledocholithiasis

complement dependent lysis

Cornelia de Lange

complement dependent lymphocytotoxicity

The complement thingies and the developmental disorder seem somewhat unlikely.

I do not know if any of them applies to your patient.

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Thanks! I remember the nurse told me that it contains several things. I thought I saw it in the lab section. But it might be what macawake says. I will ask again when I go back to work this weekend and then will post my answer here.

Thanks!!!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

OP - please do check back and let us know the definition. It is interesting when something seems to baffle many of us and, like you, we're curious too.

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Are you sure it wasn't CDI which could stand for clean, dry and intact?

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In what context was it used?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

This brings up the point to NEVER use abbreviations.

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Specializes in School nursing.
This brings up the point to NEVER use abbreviations.

This.

Just after I passed the NCLEX, I went on an interview at a long term care facility. I have to take a med exam and it includes some abbreviation questions. I got a 92% on the exam, answering all the medication questions correctly, but got a few of the abbreviation questions wrong - I had never seen them in nursing school! At the interview, the nurse manager just laughed at that as I scored higher than the average applicant and she commented that she knew nursing was moving away from using abbreviations. I can't tell you how many abbreviations I looked up after that interview and still ended up confused! :bookworm:

I would have no clue what CDL meant!

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Sure. I will definitely do that.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Three of the 7 dwarfs?

Confused, Deluded and Loopy?

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