Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

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Ok...

So I am a part of a committee putting together a "seminar" targeting New Grads, Recent Grads and students.

We are tentatively calling it "REAL Life in the ER".

We are planning it from a humorous perspective.

I have the task of ED "Definitions"

You know...

"DDK"=Dead Doesn't Know it

"Code Brown"=No explanation needed...I hope!

Got it??!!??

So if anyone has some funny ones...please post them so I can include them in my "lecture"

Thanks!

:rotfl:

Also, any funny "Nurse Calls"

She' got "SUIT" (Somethin' up in there)

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Specializes in Making the Pt laugh..

UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury,

PAFO - Pissed And Fell Over,

The humour of most people in the medical field is not understood by many outsiders or beginners, as a defensive tool, what better.

20 minutes after the first news reports of Princess Dianas death, an Ambulance officer asked if we had heard the news and cracked the first Diana joke, ( and in my opinion the best). He also happened to be very upset be the whole thing.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

vi = vulture index

bbs = bathe before seeing

microdeckia = not playing with a full deck

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JSSR- Jerry Springer Show Rejects

SBATR- Shouldn't be allowed to Reproduce

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How about PBAB--pine box at bedside

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Love this strand....though old it's amazing how the hits keep coming....

MTBFU- My toof be ****ed up (actually complaint from patient with one carrie filled tooth)

Funk in the junk (use your imagination)

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A doctor I work with told me this one.

OTFD= Out The F##@@ Door:rotfl:

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PPP-Piss Poor Protoplasm

HBD--Has Been Drinking

PSCS-Positive Suitcase Sign--(meaning they arrive in the ED with suitcases packed as they plan to check into the Hospital "Hotel" no matter what)

STAL--patient has a Sub Therapeutic Ativan Level

Jenny

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Specializes in 6 years of ER fun, med/surg, blah, blah.

What's the Diana joke? I'm dying to know.

Victoriakem:chuckle

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Specializes in Making the Pt laugh..

The Diana joke,

The ambo came into work and asked if we had heard the news, "Diana was as dead as a Dodi!"

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I use to work in Law Enforcement before I became a Nurse. Police Officers are the only other group I know that have this same "dark" sense of humor, but its what keep them able to function in thier jobs also.

some examples; 647(s) = stupid in public// HUA= head up A**//

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Specializes in 6 years of ER fun, med/surg, blah, blah.
The Diana joke,

The ambo came into work and asked if we had heard the news, "Diana was as dead as a Dodi!"

Oh that was terrrrrible!! Tell me another...............

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