So this morning, after my alarm clock rudely woke me up (so ruuuuude ) , I engaged in my terrible terrible habit of getting on facebook immediately after shutting my alarm off on my phone. I am friends with a few nursing students and they are always posting funny little nursey articles. Well this morning, one of my nursing student friends left a link to a pretty funny article that discussed the different slang used by nurses at work.They had it set up in a dictionary format, where they would use the words in a sentence as an example. As a dorky, overly excited pre-nursing student, I found them hilarious!
My fave was "PITA" which stood for Pain in the orifice.
Such as There is a PITA in room 9, just to let you know.
So I wanted everyone to share some of their "Nurse Slang" they may use daily or have heard before.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
What a great attitud that gives confidence to potential patients to undergo a surgery... The patients are healed and that's just what they need. Why would they complain because they won't know it if it happens when they're under or they won't remember it?? A professional attitud is way too much to ask from professionals they need to trust,I guess
I'm sorry your sense of humor is on the fritz. Please come back and join us when it gets better.
In Adult psych, we call the Benadryl 50/Haldol 5/Ativan 2 cocktail a B52 (as in the bomber; strong mix of sedating meds!) We also have the malingerers posing as psychotic, which we call Psychosis FOS (Full Of ****)
Having read all the comments in this thread, I will offer two that have not yet been suggested:
Failure to Fly = a kid that fell from something he shouldn't have been on and got hurt enough to need to come in (not used for serious injuries like falling from a second story window, etc.)
Tubed, Tamed, and Tied = a patient that is ventilated, sedated/paralyzed, and restrained.
) , I engaged in my terrible terrible habit of getting on facebook immediately after shutting my alarm off on my phone. I am friends with a few nursing students and they are always posting funny little nursey articles. Well this morning, one of my nursing student friends left a link to a pretty funny article that discussed the different slang used by nurses at work.They had it set up in a dictionary format, where they would use the words in a sentence as an example. As a dorky, overly excited pre-nursing student, I found them hilarious!
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LOL. I'm getting used to it.