Difference between Cor & Code?

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what is the difference between full COR and CODE, if any??? where did COR come from?

Specializes in MDS, Home Health, Hospice, Director.

We use the term in home health. Full Cor or Full Code. I have always used Full Cor vs DNR when assigning this.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I had never heard the term until I moved to Denver, but "calling a COR" is what they generally call it around here (although it's interchangeable with "code"). Now that I work in outpatient, we don't call CORs or codes, because we do not do ACLS. Instead we call "emergency response"

Ha, I just asked my husband, the hospice nurse, if he uses "COR" or "code" and he said "Out here in Colorado they use COR. I don't understand why. I use 'code'."

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