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.
Code brown. I work on a busy gi floor. Lots of exploding colostomy and ileostomies. Also used for our incontinent diaper wearing patients and then the schizophrenics who just choose to go in the bed !
TSTL - too stupid to live. Generally falls under the umbrella of "sometimes the purpose of your life is simply to serve as a warning to others" Demotivators.
Love this one, goes well with mine:
TFTB - Too Fat To Breathe, morbidly obese patients that come in in respiratory distress, usually frequent fliers
) , 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!
Christy1019, ASN, RN
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Lol I always thought that second one meant something totally different! Hahaha