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?

[semstr]

well, the best one for me is always LMAA, no I wrote it correct!

In German this means: leck mich am Arsch, need a translation? OK

Kiss my a$$.

So first time I saw, LMAO, I thought, wow, people have a very rude attitude here! Till I learned that this meant something absolutely different!!

Take care, Renee

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

BOB - bowels on the brain (especially seniors who talk of nothing else)

FLK - funny looking kid

[semstr]

Now there's another one: BAB means: Bussi aufs Bauchi, which means Kiss on Belly.

used as an endearment or as a thank you among friends.

[Whisper]

SBS= should be shot

[Researchnurse]

Similar to the one before, I am told it was said by a resident going off duty after a long shift:

AMFYOYO

"Adios Mother F_ _ _ _ _ _'s Your On Your Own"!

[LynniNurse]

well there are always the patients that are DND (damn near dead) with BFL (buzzards flying low) that are a FFC (full f***ing code) that will be OTTM (out to the morgue) as soon as they are DRT (dead right there).

[CAnurse]

working with patients that " just won't die"

order the POF treatment...........pillow over face

[KIWIRN]

we use one similar to oznurse:

PFO "pissed, fell over" often decribes #tib fib, tendon lacerations etc.

[night owl]

The pathologist at our facility's name was Fredrick Anglemyer so when we had pt's who were going to "check out," they were getting RFF, Ready For Freddy...

[LilgirlRN, ADN, RN]

5w's wimpy white woman with a wet washcloth ..you know the ones who come in all flustered, in old times I suppose they woulda had a case of the vapors. These women often have a serious Vitamin V deficiency..they 100 mg's of Vistaril IM!

[Lucy RN]

These are hilarious!!!

How about when a pt. sh*ts the bed- we called it a Code Brown--Yuk!

[CelticNurse]

Just hysterical this bunch of acronyms!

In London we also use Code Brown (too regularly!).

FLK has also been heard, closely followed by JLATM (Just look at the mother!).

In one of my old jobs we also had two distinct categories:

PFH and RFH - namely, Patients From Hell and, yes, you guessed it.....Rellies From Hell.

Keep smilin' people.