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"

OMG...I LOVE the family pack/etc...that cracks me up! I just roll my eyes when 2 or 3 from the family come in! ESP when it is all different complaints...like yeah, my son has this so I thought I'd get checked out for that...too funny

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T&BB=Tylenol & a bye-bye

Code S in room ________=Code Stupid/less than pleasant patient

Sorry if these were repeats---I didn't read the entire thread.

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Specializes in ER straight out of nursing school.

In response to the pathetic suicide attempts and wanting to write a book... we could name it "Suicide For Dummies" Or "Suicide 101... Getting it right the first Time!"

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Fluorescent Light Therapy- for those pt's who call the ambulance to pick them up for something stupid and who swear they absolutely cannot find a ride home, hoping that the hospital will come off with a FREE taxi voucher.

Well, our hospital is very stingy with the taxi vouchers and rightly so...imagine!! So, we discharge them and send them to the waiting room for a little "fluorescent light therapy." It's amazing how effective that is for pt's...after a while they all seem to be able to find a ride home.:lol2:

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I am a nursing student on a Med-Surg. floor flor clinicals. I work part time as a CNA in ER.

FF -- frequent flyer

FTD -- fixing to die

FOS -- full of ****

DOM -- dirty old man (male patient that makes moves on you)

GTOOHN - get them out of here now

Fruit Loop -- nickname for all the psych. and crazy patients

Had a bowl of stupid -- patient does not know what they are talking about

the family -- several members of a family are being seen for the same thing at he same time

bird in the air -- helicopter on the way

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Since I am in Northern Indiana...

Our codes from the field..

DRT= Dead Right There

Patients from the RV Factories who get caught between RV's usually have APM's (Acute Pinch Marks).

And to the Student who didn't like our responses about death... sometimes when you (the RN) put everything into saving someone who did have a chance, and you lose them, you laugh to keep from crying. If you can't handle it, stay on the floor.:clown:

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TFB- Too Fat to Breathe

FTD- Failure To Die

UAD- Up And Died

DWPA- Death With Paramedic Assist

Pete Fitzpatrick RN, CFRN, EMT-P

Writing from the Ninth Circle

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DSD

desperately seeking drugs

(not an acronym)

squash rot or wet brain-hepatic encephalopathy

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Specializes in ACHPN.
In response to the pathetic suicide attempts and wanting to write a book... we could name it "Suicide For Dummies" Or "Suicide 101... Getting it right the first Time!"
I like to add to the manual, don't waste your time on tylenol, aspirin, or narcotics......Use the digoxin, cardizem or lopressor....all of it!!!!
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Since I am in Northern Indiana...

Our codes from the field..

DRT= Dead Right There

Patients from the RV Factories who get caught between RV's usually have APM's (Acute Pinch Marks).

And to the Student who didn't like our responses about death... sometimes when you (the RN) put everything into saving someone who did have a chance, and you lose them, you laugh to keep from crying. If you can't handle it, stay on the floor.:clown:

Yep can see your point, I had someone very close to me die in the ER when I responded to those acronyms on death. I still wouldnt use them as I still view them as inappropriate but that might all change once im out there I just couldnt understand at that time because I would have been heartbroken if I had of heard a nurse say that about my loved one.

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

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fobsobss-fat old ba$ta&r# short of breath shoveling snow- used for our old guys that come in the winter complaning about chest pain and shortness of breath after shoveling snow 1 + hour 50 or over.

mals- mean a$$ little surgeon

snic- stupid new intern, clueless

turkey- drug seeker

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Specializes in ACHPN.

I'm not an ER nurse, but we often change the dignosis of out obese pts admitted for SOB --"exacerbation of OBCD"

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