non hospital approved abrevations.

[nilepoc]

so what are some of the abreviations used informally in your institution to describe patients.

there are the old ones from Samuel Shems book "House of God"

GOMER get out of my ER

LOLNAD little old lady in no apparent distress

Then the appropriated military ones.

FUBAR f'd up beyond all recognition

SNAFU Situation normal all f'd up

Then there are the ones I have learned since nursing school

TFBUNDY totally F'd but unfortunately not dead yet

JPFROG just plan f'n ran out of gas

AMF kind of like AMA, only Adios Mother F'r (very good for some er pt's.)

care to add some more to the list?

[shanzah]

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

[jayray]

SSA - Still Sucking Air

[ChristenLPN, LPN]

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!

[prmenrs, RN]

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.

:eek :rolleyes

[Capricat]

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.

[NurseDennie, BSN, RN]

WSD - Won't stay dead.

Love

Dennie

[Agnus]

After hanging up after a phone call to report somthing to a doc one nurse came up with DKDC. Doctor knows doesn't care.

[kmchugh]

SASPGD

Sick as s***, probably gonna die.

Kevin

[micro, RN]

Vitamin A ativan now and prn for patient, family and stafffg!!!!!

[tirramisue]

my favorite for confused patients:

CCFCCP-coocoo for cocoa cocoa puffs

[Huganurse]

TFB = Too F'n Bad

[2ndCareerRN]

One we use for many of our frequent fliers, always a migraine, always allergic to compazine, toradol, inapsine, all PO NSAID's,

.....well you get the drift.

PRBS: positive ray ban sign, always wears sunglasses, even when put in dark room!