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?

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Totally NOT approved:

PIA - Pain in A**

CD - Circling the Drain

GORK - God Only Really Knows (I think)

I loved the one I saw on this forum (from you maybe?)- "Darwin Consult"

I can't think of any more right now. I have a little page in my webpage about these - some of the real ones and some of the "ad lib" ones.

Love

Dennie

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Oh! I remember a good one now - for the people with intracranial bleeds from a fall:

FDGB - fall down, go boom

Love

Dennie

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PBx3 - Pine Box By Bed

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FTD...fixin' to die!

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My Favorites are:

CTD= circling the drain

SDY= Shoulda died yesterday

BTF= bought the farm

Saw in Md progress notes "pt having PSN's"...asked him what exactly is a PSN???? He said " Premature Something or Nothers"

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Specializes in Case Management, Life Care Planning.

My personal favorites:

Request a consult with Dr. Kevorkian

Tranfer to the eternal care facility

Beautiful

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we use "gomer" as a generalized term for crusty old peole, ie: we sent him to the gomer home today

Cluster F$%K- originally used in the millitary adapted to anything done by mangement

PITA Pain in the A$$

When i was 18 played on the FUBAR softball team, never played sober

Gorked- sedated , "that guys getting squirrly, gimme a haldol cocktail (haldol and ativan, ummm yummy) to gork him", "man she came in gorked, don't know if it's meds or if she's just a gomer"

Persoanlity disorder = a$$hole "Man that patients husband has a serious personality disorder, GORK HIM!!!"

17th floor = dead (our building has 16"

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We use "PFD" for our Sat night regulars - p!ssed, fell down.

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.

All patients need a little "TLC"--Thorazine, lorazepam and compazine.

My favorite patients are "SIR" Sedated, intubated and restrained!

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

Probably my favorite order for those hallucinating:

Vitamin H

Haldol! LOL

My favorite essential nutrient!

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PCD-- prepped for celestial discharge

consult doctor arbot

(our resident MD Death.... ex-neurosurgeon.... operated on wrong side of heads twice... caused massive TBI)

ATS-- Acute thespian syndrome

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