non hospital approved abrevations.

[nilepoc]

so what are some of the abreviations used informally in your institution to describe patients.

there are the old ones from Samuel Shems book "House of God"

GOMER get out of my ER

LOLNAD little old lady in no apparent distress

Then the appropriated military ones.

FUBAR f'd up beyond all recognition

SNAFU Situation normal all f'd up

Then there are the ones I have learned since nursing school

TFBUNDY totally F'd but unfortunately not dead yet

JPFROG just plan f'n ran out of gas

AMF kind of like AMA, only Adios Mother F'r (very good for some er pt's.)

care to add some more to the list?

[nursemartha]

I review malpractice cases and one of my abbreviation interpretations is WNL = we never looked.

[NurseDennie, BSN, RN]

ooooooooh, nursemartha!! LOL

Love

Dennie

[sphinx, BSN, RN]

When I was working on a vascular surgery unit, a coworker told me about a patient I'd be taking from her at shift change, saying she was a HONDA......I'm like ???? And she explained Hypertensive Obese Neurotic Diabetic A$$hole; saying that I should know that, since that described most of our patients?!

Also, when one of our patients died, we'd say they transferred to the 9th floor. Our hospital had only 8 floors.

[nursedawn67, LPN]

Added these to my ever growing list...thanks! :)

As always if anyone wants a copy just send me an email addy and I'll be happy to send it to you. :)

[dv8rn]

We have a particular surgeon that performs "Foreverectomies" on some of his patients. You know, removes any forever the poor soul had left.

I know, it's sick, I'm hanging my head.....sort of.