The thread about names got me thinking - not about real names (which honestly, we couldn't make up), but about "pet" names or nicknames that you give to your patients. Do any of you have any interesting ones?
We've used:
Mah-maw, Pah-paw, gomer, smurf, pickle (pickled from one too many), drunk boy (or girl), monkey boy (climbed up on cot, swinging from overhead light), spider monkey chick (thought we were all spider monkies), etc...
Of course the usual and most common (jerk, jack @$$, etc..) also apply.
We have one special pt that inspired "Darrell" for all the regular CP's that the only thing that helps their pain is Morphine..."nitro just gives me headache"
"Don't worry your new patient in room 6 is just a Darrell"
Ever call cathing a guy...."intubate the snake?"
Or hear the term, "Panty Pooding"--ick
Oh there's so many I will add more later....thanks for the smiles guys!
BeetleJuice (cause you know if you say a frequent fliers name more than once here they come), so we call em all Beetlejuice. All I can think of for now.
We assign our DD's (drunk and drugged) a surrogate ER staff family member. :biere:
Example "Hey, Nurse So and So, can you please ask your (brother, sister, mother, father, mamaw, papaw etc) to put his/her clothes back on and stop walking the halls nekkid? ":roll
We had one guy I called Minnesota Fats because he was demented and playing "pocket pool" everytime you went in the room. One of the other nurses called him "Mr. Happypants".
When a pt is seriously dopey (picking pixies out of the air) from the stuff he's either taking or that we've given him, I like to say he's "space truckin'". No idea where I got that one.
One place I worked as a traveler called the area with all the pelvic rooms "Busch Gardens."
We have several pts we identifiy as "train wreck vs. porta potty" = CHF, DM, CABG x 5, smoker, etohism, incontinent, non-compliant "dangling hemmorioid" (pain in the a**)
But is seems like my favorite these days is simply "dumba**" too many suicide attepts with 8 tylenol, car vs parked cars at 80 mph and med etoh over 250, etc...
Just got off a long stretch of 12 hour shifts in the ER....time for a day off I guess.
In our ER we have 4 sections each has a name, thanks to one of our ER techs. Beds 1-3 are known as the green mile(our resus rooms) because sometimes you come back from the Green Mile, and sometimes you don't. We call beds 4-7 The Junkyard because that's where all the CP, SOB, NH, etc pts go, Bed 8-11 is known as Busch Gardens, and Beds 12-16 are known as Candyland, the place in which we place our seekers.
We also have a pt who is a frequent flier who has since returned back to his home state that we call, "Mama Tried."
Our "Cootchie Checks," we call "Dirty Kitties," we usually just let out an ill sounding "meow" followed by a few coughs.
This thread is great guys!! It's made me smile lots!!
joprasklpn
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my mom used to call them pita. short for (pain in the a**), but never in front of them.