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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!
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Also, any funny "Nurse Calls"
I would also like a copy of the 'list'.
When I first started as a clerk in the ER 5 years ago, the slang by the medics/RNs was shocking to me as well. I graduate from nursing school in the spring, and agree with the postings... humor is the best. Amber, these are (usually) used tactfully and privately.
If any of you remember the song "Alloutte"... we sang it as kids... well there is a new version:
Intubation, rapid intubation
Intubation, mechanical airway.
FIrst you take a rubber hose
Then you shove it down the nose
O'er the tongue
Towards the lung,
OOOOO.....
Intubation, mechanical ventilation
Intubation, save a life today!
(Unfortunately, I made that up after a shift with an unusually high quantity of intubations)
In some cases I believe that these accroynms are okay. Its the one that are making fun of death that upset me. Like "Dead dosn't know" it! I just think that is appaling. how can nurses say this about other people. I aggree that nurses need to let off steam and relax expecially after a hard case but not to make fun of death or someones interpertation of reality. In Australia people hold nurses in such high regard and I couldnt imagine any of my co-workers saying this about any patient. Its disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!
Amber, I'm a student nurse in Oz too, and trust me, our Aussie sense of humour can come up with a lot worse! In tutorials in first year, a tutor told us a few - like SOB SOB SOB: Silly old bugger sitting on bed short of breath; FLK from FLP: funny looking kid from funny looking parents; some of the death ones that have been mentioned before. I can't remember all of them, but they were funny.
I'd like to know how far along in your nursing degree you are? In the interests of transparency, I start third year in Feb. I also work as an undergrad AIN.
Hi Bethem
Im in my second year of nursing, I do find most of these funny and have heard of these myself. Its just the ones about death that I find upseting, some of them are pretty sick. But each to their own and just know that in my nursing career I will not be using remarks like "dead does not know it" kind of jokes.
EDRN2BE
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I worked with a doc his name was Dr. Brown and I would always call him DB well after a couple of dirty looks and people looking at me like what the @#$& are you talking about where is the dead body I stopped calling him that. Which sucked cause I think he liked it. He was so great when we would have a cardiac or respiratory arrest come in it always seemed to happen right when he got there. He had a lovely song "Great way to start the day with a DOA"
(snapping fingers and signing):uhoh21: