positive "O" sign: nursing home pt comes in via EMS w/ mouth wide open and eyes closed
positive "Q" sign: same as above w/ tongue hanging out
hypoCBCemia:what the pt suffers from when she insists on having labs drawn even though she's not sick
an "excremental" cardiac rhythm: looks like sh!!t (asystole, vfib, etc)
TMB disease: too many birthdays
does anyone else put the body bag under the bedsheet when you get word of a code coming in?
And people think we're morbid. When the code box announces an arrest on the way, the first thing we do is bag the stretcher. Of course it doesn't look to good when you transfer the patient to the unit and when you pull the sheet off the stretcher, the body bag is there.
A few of these are funny, but most of these are mean and nasty. I'm surprised a nurse would say these things, especially in a emergency room.
I think you will find that the majority of them are said between members of staff, and not directly to the patient, and between members of staff on a 12 hour shift it can be what is necessary to make it just that little bit more bearable, its either laughing or crying, and one of those is much more fun than the other.
Actually it's not a thread, it is a list that I made up from previous threads. I have accumulated so many acronyms and nonapproved abbreviations that it is approx 14 pages worth. If you would like me to email it to you I would be more then happy to. Just pm me an addy and I'll send it off to you. :)
Please send me a copy! I have LMAO at these on the thread. Would love to hear more.
For those of you that have missed this type of thread in the past, I have a pretty good list of these "acronyms and abbreviations", approx 14 pages worth....so if anyone wants a copy please let me know. :)
please send me a copy, and if you have updated more please pass them on.
I am always looking for fun stuff to put up at our christmas party and this just wins the game!!!!!!
That's awesome and I'm going to use it tomorrow. I'd love to have a sign up at the triage desk that says "enablers, please tell your loved on not to fake chest pain, belly pain, headaches or a seizure or generalized all-over body pain. Please sign in and let us know if your loved on would like Ativan, Valium, or Demerol and the requested dose....the nurse will be with you shortly."
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The nursing home patients that get admitted always have the same diagnosis: SPUD-- Septic, Pneumonia, UTI, Dementia.