New Glossary Feature - Glossary Terms needed

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Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.

We just added a Glossary option to the site to help with all the Nursing lingo and tech lingo used online. Hopefully you will find this helpful.

Click here for the Glossary Terms

We have already added several terms/abbreviations that are commonly used on this BB and nursing terms, but we need your help to populate the list to make it more useful.

Please post your suggestions to this thread, please include the Term and its definition.

also, please feel free to post any feedback as well ;) Thanks

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Here's one that we use in our unit, though not much anywhere else:

A-C x #

Aorta to coronary artery (bypass) times #

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Specializes in Home Health.

LVN Licensed Vocational Nurse

CNA Certified Nursing Assistant

HHA Home Health Aide (sometimes aka CHHA with Certified in front); can also mean Home Health Agency

PCA Pt controlled anesthesia and/or Personal Care assistant

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on our ortho unit we use WBAT(weight bearing as tolerated) SBA(stand by assist) ADAT (advance diet as tolerated) are these the kinds of terms/abreviations that you're looking for? if so i can post the rest of them

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Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.
Originally posted by RNatlast

on our ortho unit we use WBAT(weight bearing as tolerated) SBA(stand by assist) ADAT (advance diet as tolerated) are these the kinds of terms/abreviations that you're looking for? if so i can post the rest of them

RNatlast,

Any nursing lingo that is used is welcome ;) Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for posting your suggestions, this will be an ongoing "work in progress" project.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Abbreviations.html

Virtual Hospital is my favorite medical abbv. site.

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http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Dictionaries/Medical/

GOOGLE also has a bunch of resources

As far as ortho:

ONC=orthopaedic nurse certified (me :) )

TKA /THA= total knee/hip arthroplasty (replacement)

Hemi-arthroplasty=...only one of the components

Neer®= a total shoulder mfg & its procedure

"pod" = ortho surgeon

DOS=day of surgery

POD 1,2,3 etc=post op day one, two etc. nowdays is the same as day of surgery most elective procedures

"monkey bar" the overhead trapeze bar

airsplint®=trade name for a velcro ankle splint using air pockets for stability

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Here's a few off the top of my head,

b/c = because

CMT = Certified Med Tech (not all states have them)

s/s = signs & symptoms

H/A = headache

Hx = history

rt or res = resident

~Michele

PS - PITA = Pain in the A$$. Is this one allowed??? Only kidding...

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- ALL, Acute Lymphoplastic Leukemia.

- AML, Acute Myeloid Leukemia

- NHL, Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma

- HL , Hodgkins Lymphoma

- TURP: Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate

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T0/VO...TELEPHONE OR VERBAL ORDERS.. O2...OXYGEN...ADD...ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER...CP..CEREBRAL PALSY.....G-TUBE...GASTROSTOMY TUBE.... TUBING DIRECTLY INTO STOMACH FOR MEDICATIONS AD LIQUID FEEDINGS..NGT..TUBING THROUGH THE NOSTRIL,DOWN TO STOMACH FOR THE SAME...OOB...OUT OF BED...BTW...BY THE WAY...RT....RELATED OR SECONDARY TO

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.

R/O--rule out

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Specializes in NICU.

NICU neonatal intensive care unit (my favorite)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Long Term Care.

We use the abbreviation PCT for Patient Care Tech (nursing assistant) at our hospital-- don't know if that's common, however.

When I first started reading threads here, I believe I noticed "noc" being used for night shift. I'd never heard that before and wondered if it was an abbreviation for "nocturnal".

Are you planning to include ALL medical abbreviations like t.i.d., q.i.d., PO, Ua, etc.?

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