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.
I have heard of people saying" that patient needs a little pillow therapy" which means a pillow to the face cause he is being difficult and or rude...or when a patient passes or on the way they are waiting for / or meeting the Jesus bus. I have also heard we got a "JUMPER" referring to a patient who will jump out of the bed.
I had a BOSS that used to say "Good Lord, get that women some pillow talk therapy!" when we had people on the call light a lot. The first time she said it I had no idea what she meant, and I was like, "How? Do we need an order? Does it help?"
"trach and bake " trach em and then wait f.o.r.e.v.e.r for the LTAC to accept them (hence the bake")
As opposed to shake and bake, what people used to do with Amphotericin- aka amphoterrible- infusions before they made it a liposomal formulation and took all the fun out of it.
I had a BOSS that used to say "Good Lord, get that women some pillow talk therapy!" when we had people on the call light a lot. The first time she said it I had no idea what she meant, and I was like, "How? Do we need an order? Does it help?"
It's even easier than it sounds, but you will need both hands. No. And yes.
) , 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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