Common nicknames for hospital items.

[LifesAJourney]

Just wanted to see if the nicknames we call certain items are the same names you guys call them lol. I work in the midwestern region.

Examples include:

1.) "Bubblier" for humidifier

2.) "Ice pack" for the polar pack and the original ice pack

3.) "Patches" for tele electrodes

4.) "Stickers" for labels

5.) "Booties" for spenco boots

6.) "Christmas tree" for O2 connector

That is all I can think of at the moment. Feel free to add to the list. I am looking forward to seeing new nicknames I haven't heard before :)

[Creamsoda, ASN, RN]

This is fun! Here in the West, we have Christmas trees, gowns, frequent flyers, and transfers to the ECF (Eternal Care Facility) after they've CTD'd (Circled The Drain). Patients with cannulas have their O's on. When they're 'bound up', we give 'em a Hot Slider (warm prune juice mixed with MOM or Lactulose and 2 pats of butter). GoLytely is "the atomic laxative". Heel protectors are "booties", bibs are "clothing protectors", adult diapers are "briefs", and we "turn and baste" bedbound, incontinent nursing-home residents. The thing we use to catch urine in the toilet is a "hat", but if we have to catheterize someone who can't pee, we "drop a Foley".

There's more but I can't think of them right now. :)

Haha I love that " Eternal Care facility", I'm gonna start using that. A term I heard recently now that its summer...weve been getting a lot of business from the "stroke boats". elderly cruise ship folks havin strokes left right and centre haha.

[SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN]

Manual disimpaction = butt mining

Lactulose +/or Mag Citrate = the nuclear option

[LifesAJourney]

I'm glad you guys are enjoying this thread! Great responses! It's been so long since I've heard anyone referring to our mobile computers as "cows." Yes, we also call that urine/stool collector a "hat." Those "hats" can be a little complicated when we put one in a bedside commode for a stool sample. The size of it makes it impossible to send a good sample down to the lab without urine contaminating it!

[Dana1969]

B52 = Benadryl 50mg + Haldol 2mg

Depth Charge = Prune Juice + Milk of Mag

@ss-Cannon = Go-Lytely or Mag Citrate

Twist & Shout = Q2Hours Turn Orders (at Night)

Code Brown/Chili Bed = BM

Vitamin H = Haldol

Vitamin A = Ativan

Walkie - Talkie = A Self-Care Pt

Zombie = Any RN pulling a double shift

Golden Moment = Inserting a foley on a pt with urinary retention

Gas Passer = Anesthesiologist/CRNA

Drive By Docs = AM/PM 30 Second MD Rounders

Oscar = Pt Thank You Card

Night Crawler = Pt trying to go AMA at night

Day Walker = Dayshift RN

Night Fighter = Nightshift RN

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Vitals signs machine--Nurse on a stick

Ours was known as the nurse on wheels!

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Warm prune juice, MOM, a shot of strong coffee: Crappachino

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Anyone here ever had to describe a butt decubitus in report as a crater?

How about the fact that report also might involve describing a bowel movement as Yoohoo, soft-serve, a malomar, chocolate pudding or a Lincoln Log? Kinda made you want to skip those snacks, lol....

A bedside commode was sometimes a Port-a-Potty.

[rangerlil]

Sometimes a diagnosis is: F.O.S. = full of "stool"

A quick bedbath is "pits and bits"

[merlee]

FLK - Funny looking kid. Actually used in charts for newborns with certain facial characteristics. This was 30+ years ago.

Vitamin V= valium We gave a lot of it IV in dialysis

Too tired to think of more!

[sugarwahine10]

yeah we do crystal light lemonade as a mix with go lytely usually

[Jjacobs27]

A turn and rub - intubated, sedated, and stable

[AshleyO77]

You just reminded me about something with GoLytely. I do wish the company would change the name to reflect the product more accurately. GoLytely sounds very light and dainty. As we all know, there is nothing light or dainty about it. It also needs to come flavored with ANYTHING. Our nurses mix it with the blue powerade and add ice to make it a little eaiser for the patients to drink.

Oh my this reminds me of a story. When I was still a nursing assistant (now I'm an RN), one of my pts was taking golytely for her colonoscopy which was the next day. She was going so frequently, and so VIOLENTLY, she actually had a seizure while she was on the commode. It was insane.