My two least favorite words

[elizabells]

"Nurse's discretion"

Translation: we have no intention of giving you any guidance, so you're on your own, but if a family member doesn't like something you said or did, we're totally going to yell at you.

[ilstu99]

I'm so sorry, that is sad. I do need to know what "just a feeder" and NEC totalis mean. Thank you.

NEC = Necrotizing Entercolitis. Totalis = Less than 25% of the intestine is healthy due to rampant necrosis.

Feeder/growers are those babies who just need to figure out how to eat a little better, grow a little more, and manage all of those systems together, before they can go home.

[Ms Kylee]

No Pulse.

[LesMonsterRN, ADN, RN]

"oh, leeesssSSSSLLLIIIiiiieeee".

oy.

leslie

Totally, dude. There are days when I want to change my name so I can completely ignore the "Leslie, call on line 1!" which I hear a bajillion times a shift. Or the whining "Leslie......." from a staff member with a gripe about staffing issues.

[DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP]

"Nurse, Nurse!!"

by a patient's demanding family member that wants you to bring them something from the kitchen.

[Megsd, BSN, RN]

As a new nurse, my least favorites are "new admit"

and "learning opportunity" which usually either means I have messed up somehow and get to learn from it, or they're making me do something really difficult/complicated that no one's taught me to do yet.

[Imafloat, BSN, RN]

VIP patient

[RNSC]

be flexible

means admin is going to do somithing you're not going like especially with staffing

[traveljen]

Do you remember

I know three word but my old manager use to do this all the time. Now i work in the lab and she would ask me 2 or more months later do you remember this patient you did 2 to 3 months ago what went on for whatever reason like there was a write up or something. I mean of course i remember every patient 2 or more months laters.

[NexLvlDad]

GI bleeder

[Ms Kylee]

Tonight it was Hey, Kyleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

[jessi1106, BSN, RN]

"Mandatory Overtime"

My last time was in May. Staffing is getting a bit better.

[medsurgrnco, BSN, RN]

Team player.

Means others get to make me do their work while they goof off.