non hospital approved abrevations.

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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?

FLK = Funny Lookin Kid

Yes I do peds and love all the flk's!

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Not nearly as funny as most of the abreviations I've read, but one that had a group of nurses puzzling over all day, was written by one of our favorite surgeons...

"SOBSS" (Staples out, benzoin, steri strip)

This same surgeon will write for "coffee, w/o" (coffee, without), when he would let a post op have coffee, but no cream or sugar.

Or "still liquids", or "no bubbles" when the patient may have clear liquids, but nothing carbonated.

He writes with a vivid, fluorescent purple pen too...

Peace:)

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A friend who worked in ICU referred to the Serum Porcelain test-used to check to see if the pt was a "crock" Another nurse I worked with stated a pt was "Getting Froggy" on her-that is trying to croak.

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Specializes in obstetrics(high risk antepartum, L/D,etc.

OB units have unique vitamins too. We give vitamin P --- Pitocin to induce labor.

Another one we see on "the board" is NILOTD ---Not in Labor Out The Door.

This thread is just too funny. I'm reading it at 2:30 AM. Planned to go to bed a long time ago, but I got hooked.

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Specializes in NICU.

My personal favorite is PPP for piss poor protoplasm. For those patients and families with questionable genetic pools!!

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CYA; not cyclosporine but cover your a$$.

:lol2:

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The one I miss the most is:

triple H enemas

High, Hot, and Hell of alot!!!!!:eek:

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FLK's - funny looking kids - not nice, I know.

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:roll One of my favorites:

FLK: Funny Lookin' Kid:D

Good for all those kids that seem to have some kind of unidentified disorder... :devil:

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in the ER we had one for our most popular c/o WADAO........

weak and dizzy all over

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We have a "code brown" for ...well.. that brown thing!

We also use vitamine H (Haldol).

We have to test every new patient for multi-resistant bacterias (nasal for MRSA and anal for ERV), we call them the "welcome tests".

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

When we have patients lodging overnight because yet once again there are no critical care beds available, they have HFTN posted by their names on the board: Here For The Night

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