Lingo

Code Brown---get the mop and the clean room linen, someone didn't make it to the bathroom.

GOMER---Get out of my emergency room

Frequent Flyer--person who comes in once or twice a month, yet we STILL cannot find the cause of the problem they are describing. Or who come in for more prescriptions.

Call Button Jockey--someone who keeps their thumb on the call button and rings all night long. Sure they probably are lonely, but who's going to see to the other 30 pts.?

LOLFDGB: Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom.

This I believe is an official nursing daignosis, or it should be.

STS-sicker than......

CTD-circling the drain

OBECALP-placebo...shhh....

I just love these...they crack me up!:chuckle

BTW...there have been post like this before and I have taken the "lingos" and copied them and have a huge list of all of them. So once again if anyone would like a copy of it feel free to email me or PM me and I'll send ya a copy. I have 7 pages in total...please keep the "lingo" or nonapproved medical abbreviations coming...I'll add new ones to my list! Thanks!

These are great!

OTDPDS- Out the door pretty damn soon

Originally posted by FlyingED

These are great!

OTDPDS- Out the door pretty damn soon

I saw a doc put OTD&DDR on a chart meaing roughly the same: Out The Door and Down The Road.

Originally posted by FlyingED

These are great!

OTDPDS- Out the door pretty damn soon

Our modification : PTGTAOTDPDS

pray to god they are out the door pretty damn soon.

Here's one I learned from my instuctor:

PIA: pain in a**

and one I made up after a call light crazy:

Trigger happy

as in "Watch out she's trigger happy!"

We've always used OTL - out to lunch for our confused pts.

FLK...funny looking kid

DRT: dead right there

CBT: Chronic Biscuit Toxicity (obesity)

ATD: Acute Tylenol Deficiency (fever)

APD: Acute Prozac Deficiency (just guess!)

positive blue legs sign: code blue behind the curtains. (we wear blue scrubs)

I'll have to think of the others....:chuckle