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"

ADR - Ain't Doing Right, for all your non-specific complaint needs.

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DWPA death with papamedic assist

NRGP Need to rid gene pool

DBDK Dead but doesn't know it

He's a flyer get the helicopter

NHA Not him/her again

DNN Doctor needs a nap

DNTO Doctor needs a time out :rotfl:

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NMP,NMP (nump, nump) not my patient, not my problem

once you send the patient up to the floor, or occasionaly, when a fellow nurse has a real pain in the a@# patient

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DRT=dead right there

most lamentable task=pelvic exam on a "ripe" one

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:uhoh3: DDGB------Drugh deal gone bad
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cant spell DDGB-----Drug deal gone bad--------one too many

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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

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Specializes in M/S, Onc, PCU, ER, ICU, Nsg Sup., Neuro.

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

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Specializes in Emergency, management.

This isn't an acronym but..... have you ever had those pitiful suicide attempts that are in your ED so much that you know they just enjoy the attention? I'm gonna write a book titled "Suicide, Doing It Right the First Time"

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NFP = "Normal for portsmouth" (the city where i work)

FLK = Funny Looking Kid

FLP = Funny looking parents

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Specializes in Emergency, Orthopaedics, plastics.

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)

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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.

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