Terms we will not admit to using

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You all have heard of them and of course we never actually use any of these terms but somehow they are there and everyone knows them.......

There the "unofficial" abbreviation list

like

FLK Funny Looking Kid

or

Craft syndrome - Can't Remember A Flippin' Thing

PFO - clean version - Potted (Drunk) and Fell Over

AHD - Acute Haloperidol Deficit

Or the pseudomedical jargon for describing patient peculiarities i.e.

Mononeuronis Asynapsis

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy (thanks TeeitupTom)

Acute Hyponicotaemia (busting for a cigarette)

Does anyone know anymore??

Okay can anyone add to this list

Specializes in Everything but psych!.

Sometimes I use "verbal diarrhea." (The person who can't stop talking and usually says more than they should.)

The department secretary and I use a few abbreviations. DA, RA, and PA

Dumb ahole

real ahole

and perfect ahole

The question asked by me was "Is everyone here a dumb ahole except us?" She she said that not everyone could be perfect aholes, like us. So...the abbreviations have been used frequently when frustrated. :rotfl:

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Specializes in med/surg, neuro, ortho, cardiol.

HI .... Got one for you...women suffer from pms, we all know what that is, moody, dificult, hard to live with, well men suffer from the same thing, but it is call DSB........dead sperm build-up. !!!!!!!:chuckle

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
HI .... Got one for you...women suffer from pms, we all know what that is, moody, dificult, hard to live with, well men suffer from the same thing, but it is call DSB........dead sperm build-up. !!!!!!!:chuckle
I like the term, BOS brain one sided for the men better, and P HS Pre horror syndrome for the women.
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Specializes in Mental Health.

C.R.I.S Cranial Rectal Insertion Syndrome.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

FFFOF=Frequent Faller, Found on Floor

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Specializes in ICU.

Had one the other night - Cardiac rhythm SR with LOS

Sinus Rhythm with Lotsa Other S***

(Patient had every type of ectopic you could imagine and then some I think he might have invented)

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Specializes in Rehab, skilled, long term acute,.

Positive suitcase sign - those FFs in the psych unit who come to the ER with a packed suitcase. I've actually seen this one in a medical chart.

And I sometimes suffer from Optic Rectumitis - a crappy outlook on life.

camost

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Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.

SROF

Surgical Removal of Family

RSA

Room Spray Ativan

NTG

Needs To Go

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My favorite:

CCFCCP - Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

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Well, we would sometimes want to try the POF treatment - pillow on face - but figured we'd get caught!

TSTL - too stupid to live

And then there was always the 'code brown'!:chair:

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Specializes in med/surg.
OK, I'll bite.......what the heck are DILFs? :confused:

Just spotted this has been replied to already!! OOPS!

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Specializes in med/surg.

:rotfl: I love these!! Will have to introduce some of them to my place of work!

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