New Glossary Feature - Glossary Terms needed

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We just added a Glossary option to the site to help with all the Nursing lingo and tech lingo used online. Hopefully you will find this helpful.

Click here for the Glossary Terms

We have already added several terms/abbreviations that are commonly used on this BB and nursing terms, but we need your help to populate the list to make it more useful.

Please post your suggestions to this thread, please include the Term and its definition.

also, please feel free to post any feedback as well ;) Thanks

Specializes in Geriatrics/Oncology/Psych/College Health.

(LTC = long term care i.e. nursing home, also possible referred to as a SNF - skilled nursing facility, or ECF - Extended Care Facility.)

Keeping up the geri stuff - LOL is not only laugh out loud, it's also Little Old Lady.

Some I haven't seen mentioned yet:

UAP = unlicensed assistive personnel

CMT = certified medication technician

CMA = certified medication aide

r/t = related to

amb = as manifested by, also ambulate

WC = ward clerk, also water closet in U.K.

d/t = due to

pt = patient if in small letters, PT physical therapy in caps

res = resident, a term used for a patient in a LTC

admin = on this BB usually refers to management-type people, administrators

suits = same as above

OMG = Oh, my God!

ALF : Assisted Living Facility

SNF: Skilled nursing facility

NH: nursing home

HHC: home health care

AMI: acute Myocardial Infarction

MI: Myocardial Infarct

CABG: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

PTCA: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, or angioplasty

EF: ejection fraction

PUD: peptic ulcer disease

CVA: cerebrovascular accident (stroke)

TIA: transient ischemic stroke

EPI: epinephrine

MSO4: morphine sulfate

KCL: potassium chloride

URI: upper respiratory infection

UTI: urinary tract infection

MRSA: methicillin-resistant staphlococcus aureas

VRE: vancomycin resistant enterococcus

Very clever as usual Big Daddy!

GNC© = Gerontological Nurse Certified Canada

PCH -- Personal Care Home

1:1 -- one on one care, one on one time

Specializes in ortho and paeds.
:confused: code?? I've seen it and I can guess its meaning but I would like to know for sure.

AMA - advanced maternal age

code = cardiopulmonary resuscitation, short for a Code Blue, which is usually said over the intercom system in a hospital. Code Blue in room 304, or wherever.

If someone "coded" it means they went into asystolie or stopped breathing, and a Code Blue was initiated.

Originally posted by mark_LD_RN

AMA - advanced maternal age

Our AMA means: Against Medical Advice, as when a pt. leaves the hospital without dr. approval.

how 'bout-

AORN - Association of periOperative Registered Nurses

CNOR- OR nursing certification

CRNFA - certified registered nurse first assistant

RNFA - registered nurse first assistant

ORIF - open reduction, internal fixation

TMI - Too Much Information

Used when a post provides more information than the reader wanted or feels comfortable reading. Frequently posted in jest however.

Chuck

Specializes in Rural Hospital (we do it all).

I don't believe this one appears in medical abbreviations in lower case form, but I created it for personal documentation to save time when referring to a nonspecific medical problem.

Code Red: Fire

Code Blue (some hospitals): Bomb or Bomb Threat

The hospital and clinics I've worked at in a non-nursing capacity called resuscitation efforts a "code", with no colour designation. The "code team" was the PA announcement, as in "Code Team 2 South 207" (code team respond to floor 2, south wing, room 207). "Code team" is also the designation for personnel explicitly assigned to respond to medical emergencies.

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