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 OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Working in the OR, it's more nicknames for procedures than anything else.
Poke & suck: incision and drainage of an abscess. Generally very quick surgery that means we truly are just poking a blade into the abscess, sucking the nastiness out, and getting the heck out of dodge.
Snip & pull: retained suture/wire/drain that the patient needs anesthesia to have removed, either because it's stuck or it's a little one/developmentally delayed kiddo who can't tolerate removal in the office. Like the poke & suck, very quick and get the heck out.
Peek 'n' shriek: Open patient up, realize that there's cancer everywhere, and close them back up because completing the lung lobectomy/bowel resection/other procedure won't be enough to treat and will only cause additional pain/suffering.
In OB, FLK ("Funny Looking Kid") - it means an infant who appears to have some type of genetic syndrome, evidenced by not looking quite right.
Honestly, other than that, I can't think of any slang that's unique to OB.
FLK isn't unique to OB, we use that term in Pediatrics too. Babies who are FLKs tend to remain so as toddlers, school aged and teenagers. Usually by school age/teenage years we at least know why they're an FLK.
) , 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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