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what does this mean????

can anybody tell me what this means? IS/CDB q 1 hour got this as an order with a patient unable to determine the meaning thanks for your help

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can anybody tell me what this means? IS/CDB q 1 hour got this as an order with a patient unable to determine the meaning thanks for your help

Incentive Spirometry / Cough Deep Breathe every one hour. :)

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thank you very very much-- it is too bad that there are so many medical abbreviations-- appreciate ya

Incentive Spirometry / Cough Deep Breathe every one hour. :)
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This is why JCAHO is eliminating most abbreviations.

can anybody tell me what this means? IS/CDB q 1 hour got this as an order with a patient unable to determine the meaning thanks for your help

Incentive Spirometer/Cough & Deep Breathe

can anybody tell me what this means? IS/CDB q 1 hour got this as an order with a patient unable to determine the meaning thanks for your help

Incentive spirometer, cough & deep breathe every hour.

Whoops! Should have known somene already answered! Sorry!

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can anybody tell me what this means? is/cdb q 1 hour got this as an order with a patient unable to determine the meaning thanks for your help

is/cdb q 1 hour --- never in 30 years saw this as a standard abbreviation and i've worked respiratory nursing 20 of these years both hospital and home care.

agree with traumarusthis is why jcaho is eliminating most abbreviations.

one should never guess--look it up in the facility's approved definition list; if not there call the doctor for explanation.

Really NRSKaren? You've never seen those abbreviations? Wow, I thought everyone used them! LOL Goes to show you how VERY different things can be between hospitals!

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LOL Goes to show you how VERY different things can be between hospitals!
That's why reading policy and procedure manual should be required part of first week of orientation and only using approved appreviations---they do differ between facilities.

ACS: is this acute coronoary syndrome or atherosclerosis?

SVD: is this sexual veneral disease or spontaneous lady partsl delivery?

PE: is this pulmonary emboli or pulmonary edema?

BIG difference.

Had a Doctor tell a nurse one time to "add up units of insulin in a syringe", meaning combine regular and NPH.

RN added together dose together of Regular and NPH and was planning to give it as ONE DOSE of REGULAR INSULIN. :rolleyes:

not simple lady partsl delivery

SPONTANEOUS lady partsl delivery...

rofl I can see why abbreviations are a problem, as most can.

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