Nursing Acronym Question

[CrimsonAlchemist]

Hey, I'm a student and I've recently started having clinical dates. Yesterday, I was looking at the Nursing Notes for my patient and on several notes, by multiple nurses, there was the normal note, noting whatever was going on/being monitored, but then at the end was the acronym "CLWR". Not all of the nurses used this, but several did.

My instructor thought it might be a title or something but she doesn't recognize it, and the nurse I was with didn't know what it meant either. None of the nurses that had written CLWR were on shift at the time. And Of the nurses that wrote it, it wasn't any of their initials.

I googled it, but all I could come up with was that CLWR was the short hand for Clearwater Corporation in the NASDAQ stocks...

Any ideas?

[CrimsonAlchemist]

To OP:

I was not saying that you were looking in other charts. I was pointing out that the suggestion you were given by another poster to do so was probably not the best thing to do. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.

Good luck in your studies.

I was just CYAing in case someone took it like that =) Even though it's our first semester, my instructors are drilling in how important that it is that we document meticulously. I jumped the gun a bit(as I am known to do) and I really need to work on that

Thanks to everybody for their replies and help!

[luvazsun, RN]

The hospital should have a list of approved abbreviations. Find out where it is and study it. You may be surprised what you learn. I'd be curious to know if this is actually on the list.