Day 5: 2016 Nurses Week Mashup Contest

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You've heard of Bennifer (Ben Afleck and Jennifer Garner) and Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) so you're familiar with mashups. We want your best nursing terminology mashups. Maybe you've been using this term for years or maybe you just created it five minutes ago. Whatever the case, leave your Nursing Terminology Mashup and a brief explanation of it in the comments below and you'll be entered to win a 3M™ Littmann® Cardiology IV stethoscope!

Winner will be announced May 13, 2016. Be creative. Be unique.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical/Float Pool/Stepdown.

C-diffarrhea

C-diff vs diarrhea :barf02:

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headiorectus (head up butt)

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circumoraledema (swelling around mouth from shoving foot in it)

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Hanitizer = hand sanitizer I can't even take credit for this one! When my daughter was 5 she asked me to pass her the hanitizer and it's stuck since then. She's 12 now!

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Colostomess

Need i really explain this?

When the patient attempts to adjust their colostomy bag.

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Specializes in Peds, education.

Bathment

When your patient needs a bed bath and assessment at the same time. I use the term with my students (usually in a long-term care setting) from time to time.

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Ambuhate: Your post-op patient is able to ambulate but absolutely hates getting out of bed.

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Referring to the hospital as their Vacaway.

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Hotel Roswell is one that our parents even use. Must be because of the customer service and great food!

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Specializes in acute care, case management.

Walkey-talkey: when a patient is ambulatory, walking around the nurses station and chatting it up with other patients, families, nurses and other stuff. As a case manager, if you're walkey-talkey, time to phone the doc for a T. O. , discharge home.

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Burse (bad nurse) :p

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