Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

[RNin92]

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"

[needsmore$]

"hypovistarilemia"-condition where a patient has low serum vistaril level (ie-crazy!!)

'pid shuffle'--- a gait assessment tool

'foosh'ed- fall on outstretched hand--mechanism of injury for ue injuries

anne

[Darlene K.]

N.L.O.P. = No longer our problem....

[CritterLover, BSN, RN]

chs -- crack head syndrome

[emsboss]

How about

DRT= dead right there

ART= assuming room temperature

CTD= circling the drain

[RNCENCCRNNREMTP]

JPROG = Just Plain Ran Outta gas

[madmad]

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"

Ever seen "GOK"? God only knows what is wrong with them!!! )

[RNin92]

Love these!!!

Thanks...

Keep 'em coming!

:rotfl:

[Fluesy]

CRAFT syndrome - Can't Remember a F'ing Thing

SOB - Silly Old Beggar

FDGB Fall Down Go Boom

CFOB Can't find own Bum

[sjt9721, BSN, RN]

BRBPR: Bright Red Blood Per Rectum

DABOR: Dumb As a Box Of Rocks

CPC: Crotch-Pot Cookin' (see PID Shuffle)

:)

[lapappey]

ATTE: Actively Trying To Expire

OLPO: One Line Per Opening (natural openings and then some ...)

LOLFDGB: Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom

Proctalgia (not an acronym, but cute): pain in the ***

[babs_rn]

I developed two as a result of a couple of patients we had seen...one inspired the DQA right off the bat (Drama Queen Alert) - the other came about after seeing several twenty-something men accompanied by their mothers who answered all questions and tried to sign all consents and basically didn't seem to be able to function away from Mommy.....ASA (Apron String Alert).

[kmchugh]

ART: Assuming room temperature, as in dead.

PID: Physician in distress (a diagnosis for doing tests/procedures to make a jittery physician feel better.)

Acute thespianism: Drama queen/king.

Acute fulminating thespianism: Drama queen/king who can be heard way, way down the hall.

Kevin