Oh, these are hysterical! But imagine the nurses' consternation when one hospital in town wanted to create a place to discharge ER patients to- they planned to call it the Follow Up Care Unit. Considering our love of abbreviations, nobody wanted to chart this!
Many. many years ago, our hospital was the county hospital. One day the ER received a pt w/ a map in their hand from the hospital to which they had originally gone to ours--entitled "Disposition of UnManageable Patients". D.U.M.P.
When I worked in an ED in Kentucky, we had pts come in with SKSS. (Southern Kentucky Sinking Spells) which is very similar to an AFF or Alabama Flopping Fit.
The pinnacle of the O sign Q sign series is the "dotted Q" (open mouth, tongue hanging out and a fly on the tongue.
shanzah
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I worked as a labor & delivery nurse and these are just some of our non-approved abbreviations:
FOOC - F**king out of control!
Vitamin C - for those "mothers-to-be" on CRACK
WWW -whiny white woman
POD -for those with every STD known...they have had an encounter with the "member of death":D