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 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?
Okay I thought that my er was the only one that did that. Except we like to go a bit further and tell staff to tell their "baby daddy(or momma) something!
Ha ha ....I am actually in triage right now, it's obviously not so bad!! But I loved this thread, it made me laugh!!! I thought I'd add a little fun...I am at a community hospital that is right on the outskirts of America's # 1 most dangerous city (Detroit) so you can imagine some of the stuff we have to deal with....but as you all know ER nurses have the best (and probably oddest) senses of humor. We actually made up a jingle.....
Specializes in OR, OB, EM, Flight, ICU, PACU.......
"Torch". So guess where he got the nickname...:trout:
He would frequently smoke while wearing his oxygen.
He was a unit admit at least 3 times that I'm aware of...
Slow learner...
JJ
:yeah:How about the crack-addict that pulls out his pipe in the exam room (when no one was in the room, of course) and lights up, not bothering to remove his Oxygen nasal cannula. Needless to say, on his way to the Burn Unit, he was christened "Blaze" by the attending!
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Okay I thought that my er was the only one that did that. Except we like to go a bit further and tell staff to tell their "baby daddy(or momma) something!