Funny fake names for meds

[time4meRN]

I just brought this up in another post too. One of our cardiac thor. surgeons gave me a paper with a med name on it. He asked me to look it up because he couldn't find it anywhere. My first thought was, oh my gosh , is his Blackberry broken or is he worried that he may get a blister on his finger. So I took the gosh darn paper and it sain "Mycoxaflopin", at first glance it looked like a real med. But, when I said it in my head I had to laugh. I guess, even "those kind of Dr's" can have a little humor deep down inside them somewhere. Of course there's always the old standard pt's with funny names for meds like , Dilauda (I was informed by a pt that it is the liqued form of Dilaudid), or Finergin.

[ann945n, RN]

Google Havidol, a good laugh there

[crissrn27, RN]

http://havidol.com/

that was funny, thanks ann

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

Go-Lotly, from an old nursing instructor

[GregRN]

http://www.davesdaily.com/pictures/302-fukitol.htm

[LindseyLou2222, RN]

ha ha, too funny!

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

The ones I remember

Vitamin H for haldol

Milk of amnesia for Propofol

keeping some humor at the work place is definitely necessary

[neneRN, BSN, RN]

Have a doc that once in a while orders a "B52" (like the plane,B52 bomber)...he's referring to an Ativan/Haldol combo for the unruly psych pt.

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

Back in the day, in the hospital:

Amphotericin was "Amphoterrible"

Levophed was "Leave 'em dead"

[VegRN]

I just brought this up in another post too. One of our cardiac thor. surgeons gave me a paper with a med name on it. He asked me to look it up because he couldn't find it anywhere. My first thought was, oh my gosh , is his Blackberry broken or is he worried that he may get a blister on his finger. So I took the gosh darn paper and it sain "Mycoxaflopin", at first glance it looked like a real med. But, when I said it in my head I had to laugh. I guess, even "those kind of Dr's" can have a little humor deep down inside them somewhere. Of course there's always the old standard pt's with funny names for meds like , Dilauda (I was informed by a pt that it is the liqued form of Dilaudid), or Finergin.

I wasn't there, maybe I am totally misreading this but, that doc sounds a bit creepy.

[decartes]

Micoxaphalen (viagra)

[EarthChild1130]

We call Ativan 'Vitamin A' and we also have one called the 'silver bullet' that we give to psych pts. who are totally out of control...it is 2 shots...one shot is 50 mg of Benadryl...the other shot is the Ativan/Haldol combo...usually 2 mg Ativan and 5 mg Haldol.