Common nicknames for hospital items.

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Just wanted to see if the nicknames we call certain items are the same names you guys call them lol. I work in the midwestern region.

Examples include:

1.) "Bubblier" for humidifier

2.) "Ice pack" for the polar pack and the original ice pack

3.) "Patches" for tele electrodes

4.) "Stickers" for labels

5.) "Booties" for spenco boots

6.) "Christmas tree" for O2 connector

That is all I can think of at the moment. Feel free to add to the list. I am looking forward to seeing new nicknames I haven't heard before :)

Liquid Lounge= place where intoxicants are held in the ER.

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Cave of Wonders >>> PYXIS room

Specializes in Geriatrics, retirement, home care..

I think this one is common...

Top hats for toilet urine collectors.

Specializes in Geriatrics, retirement, home care..
Anyone ever refer to the hospital mesh panties as 'Victoria Secrets'?

We called them fishnets! lol

A quick bedbath is "pits and bits"

I've also heard PTA, for pits plus t&a...not tonsils and adenoids, the other t&a!

"Moon boots" for sequential compression devices.

Specializes in ICU.
"Moon boots" for sequential compression devices.

We have moon boots that are actually padded "booties" used to protect patients' heels.

Specializes in Transitional Nursing.
New england....a Bubbler is the water fountain. It's a stretcher not a gurney. It's a Johnnie not a patient gown. It not a "christmas tree" (I'm originally from the midwest) but a nipple connector. It Guaiac not hemoccult. It's a mucous trap not Luki tube (sputum spec. for a vented patient). The Au Pair is the baby sitter. It's soda not Pop, a float not milk shake, and Jimmies not sprinkles.

Triple H enema (high hot and a heckof a lot) and Banana Bags(IV MVI/folate?Mg detox bags). We have Vitamin H, Vitamin V and Vitamin A. We have positive samsonite signs (comes with luggage) and DBQ (dirt bag quotient).

GI cocktail green or pink. (maalox/viscous lido/belladonna (green) or phenobarb (pink)

Just to name a few

Ahhhhhhhhhhh I miss new England!!!! I knew all of these !

"No day but today"

In Arizona we called feeding tubes duotubes, but here in salt lake they call them dophoff tubes (not sure if that's spelled right). What do you guys call feeding tubes?

Specializes in Emergency.

B52 haldol 5 Ativan 2, magic peeing bag foley cath,

Specializes in Cardiac.

How about:Incontinent of stool = code brown

Specializes in Cardiac.

Yep, I sure have

That was in response to calling the mesh hospital panties "victoria's secret"

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