Nicknames your pt's give you

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A pt's family came in on day shift and demanded to know the name of the person that had taken the time to care for the mom the last couple of days because she was soooooo happy about the care... Well the family was there when my shift came in this afternoon and the lady comes rolling up and kicks me in the leg and then hugs me and tells her family "This is my Pest that takes such good care of me" they all started laughing....

In also get called Irish girl, by all my Irish pt's

the hunter of my unit calls me Spook!!

What do your pt's call you guys?:trout:

Specializes in general surgery/ER/PACU.

Nurse McDreamy (like greys anatomy). I thing the anesthesia was causing them to see things;)

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gosh, i've been called so many different things.

but i've been consistently called "freshie" amongst my elderly pts.:)

leslie

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Specializes in Emergency.

"Porcupine head" - it wasn't a good encounter with that patient.

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Specializes in Neuroscience ICU, CNRN, SCRN.

One of my frequent flyers, who is blind, always asks who it is that is taking care of him that day. My name is Susan, but when I told him that the 1st time I was his nurse, he kept calling me, "Susie Homemaker". I finally laughed and said I wasn't much of a homemaker, so he started calling me "Susie Homewrecker" instead. And it stuck; so now whenever he's my patient, I always introduce myself as "Susie Homewrecker." It kind of freaked out my orientee the other day, until I explained...

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Specializes in PICU, surgical post-op.

My name's Ali, and I work in peds ... more often than not I'll be referred to as "Owie" or "Howie."

On bad days, it's "that mean lady"

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Specializes in Brain injury,vent,peds ,geriatrics,home.

They used to call me Barbie(like Barbie doll)And my dear mom with alzhiemers at the time used to call me yellow head!She couldnt remember my name.Now its NursePaula.Not my name.

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Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.

I had a sweet lol that loved to call me sunshine....as in my "ray of sunshine" :)

She was a grumpy little thing..hehe

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Specializes in Med Surg.

"Nurse House"......I'm pretty sure it's a compliment.:lol2:

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Specializes in CCU/CVICU, Hemodialysis, ER, PALS Inst..

Well, I get called "Jules" alot by patients and friends/family (full name is on my name tag.) I have, of course, been called an array of names (some good, some not so good.) I have also had the nickname "Jamie" by a co-worker. He was a radiology tech i worked with and when I first met him I told him my name was Julie and for some reason he heard "Jamie." After all these years, it has stuck (I think this was in 2000.)

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Specializes in Nurses who are mentally sicked.
We once had a very confused ETOH/opiate withdrawal pt that named all the nurses she could see from her room angel. I was clown angel......I sort of liked that name. ;)

An angel????

No wonder my patient once call me the "God."

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I had one LOL that called me "bubbles" (I was quiting smoking so I was popping alot of gum). Her son has always called me "nurse crachet"

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Specializes in Geriatric and now peds!!!!.

One of my residents for some reason thinks that my name is Donna (it is now, it is Wendy) I have no idea how she got that idea. fortunately no one else named Donna works on our unit so it is ok! One grumpy man calls me Nurse Wratchet!!!

Wendy

LPN

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