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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"
Regarding the little old nursing home pt. that upon arrival is confused, disoriented, tachycardic, hypotensive, and not making any urine.
After rehydration with about 3 liters normal saline, he wakes up and asks "Hey, where's my cigarettes?"
IHBJAW - Instant Human Being Just Add Water :roll :chuckle
Here's one I came up for patient one day when I was in charge for the shift;
D/S & ATU (drunk, stupid, and all tied up)-used for a drunk brought in EMS who fought with one of female staff while pulling his #14 ga IV site. We fought him back to bed, tied him up(in leathers of course), replaced his #14IV site and gave him a foley for his trouble. Fell asleep and heard no more out of him for the rest of the shift,,,,, Keep em laughing.... Paul
i recognise quite a few of those already mentioned, but here are a few from my workplace... although we've never go as far as writing them on the notes... yet:chuckle
fns - friday night syndrome
das - drunk and stupid
dadd - dead as a do-do
fuc... this patient - follow up care for... this patient
fubar - f&^£*d up beyond all recognition (reserved for the iv drug users)
cfa - cry for attention
asl - assess stupidity level
ht - health tourist
uhtep (pronounced u tep) - using hospital to try to escape police
hi - human icicle
gdfd- got drunk + fell down
snafu - situation normal, all f&^%$d up (personal status report - someone asks "how you doing?" and they respond snafu)
And then there are:
BOS - bad off sick
Walk in the Swamp - pelvic exam on one with poor hygeine
Hyperhohoism - child weighing in over 150#
TSTL - too stupid to live
TSS - That sucking sound..the life being sucked out of you from the twits in the ER.
MOK - made of kryptonite..can feel your life leaving you from being around these people.
SharkLPN
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ADR - Ain't Doing Right, for all your non-specific complaint needs.