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 :)

[SAM.RN]

Where I work, MIlk of mag + Miralax mixed in prune juice is a Boom Boom Pow.

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

we had to stop calling our computers on wheels "cows" because some visitor got offended and complained because she heard "get that cow out of the hallway" lmao....now they're wows, workstations on wheels...how upscale

good one i'm still lol...

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

EKG thingie=stickie ,

MOM and cascara=brown cow,

bed pads=chux even though we went to cloth ones that worked great-still chux,

thermometer=temper-taker,

report sheet/shift notes=my Brain,

my pen= NOT YOURS,

LOL on floor slip and slide in room #___,

computer charting=building in the box thing,

multiple tubes in one person=all these "wires"

team nursing with a partner=double-timing the patients (a great concept-LOVED it)

bed that won't roll=Yugo with a flat

[Intentional]

"princess glove" = arm sleeve to keep the LOL's from ripping out their IV's

[Jackfackmasta, ASN, RN]

The fish bowl= Admissions

The hole= Triage

Bucky= our doctor

Code Shakespeare= Drama

Code Charlie (Sheen)= Cray person on premises

Big Bertha= Big Bed Side Commode

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

i hope no one gets offended by this one, however, when one is great drawing blood or starting an iv at our place they are refer as "vampires"...me being one of them

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Soaps suds enema....Triple H

(high, hot and a heckuva lot)

LOL squared (Little old lady landing lightly)

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

i hope no one gets offended by this one, however, when one is great drawing blood or starting an iv at our place they are refer as "vampires"...me being one of them

all the phlebotomists got called vampires!

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

the basin is known for the popcorn dish, the white sheets are known as fine dinning cloth, the spatula is the necessary spoon

[Jo Dee]

Anyone ever refer to the hospital mesh panties as 'Victoria Secrets'?

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

We had to stop calling our computers on wheels "COWS" because some visitor got offended and complained because she heard "Get that COW out of the hallway" LMAO....now they're WOWs, workstations on wheels...how upscale

Holy Somke NOW THAT"S funny!!!!!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

People who faint a church especially on the holidays....Sinkers. Triage....The Penalty Box. I've drawn many ranbows. Sputum specimens.....Goobers if suction spec Hockers if spit. Suction....Gomco (even though it was a machine once).

LOL grounder.....Little ole lady who fell.