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.
If you are sitting at the nurses station and hear "I need some help in here!" jump up and run. This is the nursing equivalent of "officer down". It means you need to rescue your coworker from a headlock, maybe call a code, call security, or something interesting.
"Sick" Isn't everyone in ICU sick? No, if a patient is "sick" in ICU they are in bad shape indeed.
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.
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.
You're supposed to say "thank you come again" to those patients. Mostly because they'll come in again for the same issue if Darwin didn't claim them.
) , 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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