Kids talking like nurses

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Specializes in Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy.

Do you ever hear your kids use a clinical term instead of the common lay term? Like calling a heart attack an M.I.? Or saying PRN instead of ''if I need it''? I've heard my son describe a classmate's perseveration before, and yesterday, he announced that he thinks his friend's brother may have OCD because of some of the ''things he keeps doing''. Well, allrightythen...

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:lol2: my co-worker and I are neighbors and our 5 yo daughters play together. Yesterday my daughter said to her daughter "I think we need to get some fluids" and her daughter said "are you feeling a little dehydrated?:lol2:
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Specializes in Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy.
:lol2: my co-worker and I are neighbors and our 5 yo daughters play together. Yesterday my daughter said to her daughter "I think we need to get some fluids" and her daughter said "are you feeling a little dehydrated?:lol2:

That's funny. Proves yet again that little pitchers have big ears.

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Specializes in Adolescent Psych, PICU.

Yes! LOL My kids are 8 and 4 and I really hear this a lot with my 8 year old. THey see and hear me studying and talking about medical/nursing stuff so much it must be ingrained in them! LOL

My 8 year old was telling everyone the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes the other day and I was shocked at how much she knew!! She even knows how to give my mom her insulin injections and use the blood sugar meter.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.

LOL, that's cute. I haven't noticed my kids saying anything like that but it would be pretty funny if they did.

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My teenaged DD does, but I think it's more interest than just overhearing me, because she wants to be a nurse too.

My first marriage, the ex was an RT so we used a lot of jargon while talking because we both understood it. It was so much easier when leaving notes for each other to use medical abbreviations!

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Specializes in OB, House Sup, ER, Med Surg.

My 7 year old dtr already knows how to spot "juicy veins" and will examine herself and anyone who will let her looking for the best veins.She also has scrubs in several colors and her own stethescope. My 10 yr old boy and 13 yr old girl think all aspects of nursing are "gross".

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Probably from all those medical shows on TV.

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My teenaged DD does, but I think it's more interest than just overhearing me, because she wants to be a nurse too.

My first marriage, the ex was an RT so we used a lot of jargon while talking because we both understood it. It was so much easier when leaving notes for each other to use medical abbreviations!

Teenaged DD ?

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Specializes in Peds, 1yr.; NICU, 15 yrs..

Funny

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Teenaged DD ?

Sorry.....teenaged dear daughter......abbreviation from another board!

DH: husband

DW: wife

DS: son

DM/DF: mother/father

MIL: mother in law

etc........

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my kids are 18, 16, and 14, and they are always speaking to me in medical terms

especially when they want something "stat"! but heres the good news my 16 yr old has signed up for the LPN program thru his hs, i am so proud of him!!!!! he wants to become an RN like his mama, but he also wants to be a police officer, so i encourage him to do BOTH--an RN is a shoo-in for the polce academy, right??

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