In the Air Force, where we have lots of fit, handsome soldiers as patients, it was customary for PACU to give us med-surg nurses report and include the code words "E.O.E." or "E.C." E.O.E. was a 9 and E.C. was a 10, if you get my drift. (Easy on the Eyes, and Eye Candy, respectively).
Brain = report sheet where you took notes at shift change and plotted out your day
Christmas tree = green O2 adapter
Code Brown = incontinent bowel movement overwhelming in either amount, odor, or runniness
Du'av kees = "Do you have [the narcotic] keys?" run together, sounds like you're speaking Indian or Pakistani
Frequent Flyer = patient whose frequency of returning to our care unit far, far surpasses that of every other patient
GI cocktail = M.O.M., belladonna, and lidocaine concoction
Hat = urine collector that can be set inside the toilet
Red Robin = the in and out urinary cath kit with the customary red catheter
SCDs or Scuds = Sequential Compression Device or leg massagers
Slug = postop patient who consistently refuses to get out of bed or ambulate
Stopcock = three way valve for IV
Vitamin A = Ativan, Vitamin H = Haldol
My own additions I regularly use
Armani designer fashion = hospital gown, tread socks, and whatever else the doctor ordered, like TED hose
B.S.C. = a mental health condition manifesting in an ER Psych patient which stands for Bat Sh*t Crazy
"If Mary Kay was here do you know what she'd ask you? 'Would you like a little blush for those cheeks?'" = Dear patient, your
backside is exposed. Let me tie your gown."
"Those little pancake thingies," "EKG buttons" = electrodes
Darnitall = Donnatal
"Oh GOODIE! Yeah, yeah yeah!" = patient has a shockingly deep or bloody wound
I also worked on a unit where "Bacon Thirty" was the time the dining hall could start selling breakfast to staff, and another hospital where premie babies were "frogs"
In the OR when doing laparoscopic surgery, we use two monitors. The outlet monitor was called a "slave". They banned that term, and it's now called a "satellite". PC non-sense. I'm black, and I could care less. It's not like a black person has to hold the screen during the entire surgery, NOW that would be a "slave", lol.[/quote']
Lol. Even all the way down here in Australia we call the 2nd monitor the slave!
Hats and johnnies, bariatric beds are called big boy beds. The smaller beds that you can bring all the way to the ground are low boy beds. Computers are WOWs, our blood pressure machines are called dynamaps but I think thats the brand name..
A patient asked me for the "litter box" (bedpan) yesterday and I think thats going to catch on where I work...
We have hats for urine samples, big boy and low boy beds, computers are WOW's, dynamaps. The saline lock loop I call it a J loop. Christmas tree for the O2 connector.
One of our patients would continuously yell "BILL!!" for hours and hours until we gave her Ativan, at which point she would stop. As a result, whenever we had a patient who had trouble calming down, the nurses would be looking for Bill. :)
SherriJones
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In the Air Force, where we have lots of fit, handsome soldiers as patients, it was customary for PACU to give us med-surg nurses report and include the code words "E.O.E." or "E.C." E.O.E. was a 9 and E.C. was a 10, if you get my drift. (Easy on the Eyes, and Eye Candy, respectively).
