Kids talking like nurses

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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...

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??

How wonderful! With that LPN he'll be able to chip in for his college education and you won't feel guilty putting him out and turning his room into your rec center! :lol2:

This is a cute thread....

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Looks like ya'll are bringing up the next generation of nurses!!!

Homeschooling for future nurses. lol

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

My daughter will be 3 next month. Although she calls herself Dr. S____y and not nurse S____y, she'll put on her sunglasses and baseball cap ~ that means she's being 'medical'. She keeps all of her "medical supplies" in a Halloween pumpkin. She asks me if "I'm hurting" (I always tell her my feet hurt), she'll examine them, takes her "cutters" out (??don't know about that one), rolls a toy truck over them (that's the best part), then puts medicine on them. She asks if I'm better, then checks my heart with a necklace that she has and says, "dun-dun dun-dun" "OK, sounds good mommy".

No real medical jargon yet, but she's on her way!

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.
My daughter will be 3 next month. Although she calls herself Dr. S____y and not nurse S____y, she'll put on her sunglasses and baseball cap ~ that means she's being 'medical'. She keeps all of her "medical supplies" in a Halloween pumpkin. She asks me if "I'm hurting" (I always tell her my feet hurt), she'll examine them, takes her "cutters" out (??don't know about that one), rolls a toy truck over them (that's the best part), then puts medicine on them. She asks if I'm better, then checks my heart with a necklace that she has and says, "dun-dun dun-dun" "OK, sounds good mommy".

No real medical jargon yet, but she's on her way!

Oh - that is just precious!

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

She really cracks me up when she does it, especially after she "suits up" with the glasses and cap and becomes very, very serious. :lol2:

She also asks me if I am "happy" or "crappy".......I guess I was sick when I told her I felt crappy and it stuck!!

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

Happy or crappy... that just about covers it all, though, doesn't it? :wink2:

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

I think so!! That's the first assessment question I ask patients! :lol2:

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Few weeks ago, while walking in a park, I stopped to say hello to a very cute lap dog being walked by about six years old girl with her mother. The mother and daughter were very friendly, and the dog was excitedly wagging his tail as if it wanting me to cuddle him. Then the dog made sneezing sound twice, and stopped wagging his tail for a moment. The girl sadly said that her dog had COPD and needed mask. I glanced at her mother who winked at me said : oh, she learned that from watching part of the ER show.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Neuro/Trauma stepdown.

this is too freakin' cute, i don't have any kids so i can't contribute, but i know others do and i can't wait to hear 'em....happy or crappy--ha! i'll have to use that one!

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.

My 7 y/o dd told me one day "My apical heartbeat is fast, I think I should stop playing for a little bit." Could have knocked me over with a feather after I heard her say that.

When my 6 y/o daughter was 5, I was asking her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she said she wanted to be a nurse. Do you want to be a doctor, I asked. No, she said, a nurse, I want to actually help people. LMAO on that one too.

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I don't have children, but my sister (18 years younger than me) often helped me study while I was in nursing school. She's away and on her own now, but I remember years ago she sprained her wrist and upon being examined in the ER, not only dx'd herself correctly, but suggested the meds for pain, as it was a severe sprain. Made me proud when she said "MY brother is going to be a nurse and work here someday!"

Funny thing, at graduation, we were instructed to please ask our guests NOT to clap after each name announced, and even tho I recited this to her and her friends, I got a standing ovation including whistles when my name was called to recieve my diploma. Needless to say, I accepted my diploma with a VERY red face!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

how cute!

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