Metal arm coming off the ventilator to hold the tubing in place = The Extubator
Restless patient who squirms and moves all over the bed = Bed Swimmer
Decription for the above patient who slides down in bed and has a leg or two hanging over the side minutes after you fix em up real pretty = Aesthetically Unstable
Some places call it a saline lock, others call it hep locked. In colorado, they continue to be buff capped.
Pigtails for extension tubing
VS machines I heard called dynamaps (brand maybe) for most of time time as a cna. I still slip that into conversations and am now unsurprised by the looks I get in return.
We use FLK funky looking kid (NICU humor) and I just heard one from an adult ICU nurse the other day that I had not heard before..... PHD pentecostal hair do .... this is when your patient who is pentecostal and has many hair pins in their hair and they are on the ventilator. Apparently the pins go everywhere in the bed.. She also said one of the other acronyms she saw on a dictation from an MD was PBTBKLO pine box to bedside keep lid open. Now that one is kinda freaky...
that's what my pt. in gi use to say.
psu_213, BSN, RN
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I have not read all the responses, so it might have been said before… "nose hose" for NG tube