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 ER, Med/Surg.

These are some that one of my docs told me:

Toxic seman backup

Sperm retention H/A (or SRI - Sperm retention irritability)

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

Proctalgia--an actual term, but used here to refer to a PIA family member.

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not too bright=marginal guidance system

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Anal Glaucoma -- for when you can't see you a** doing that

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Whenever I see someone use WNL I always wonder if it means "within normal limits" or "We never looked"

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Case Management, also OR/OB.

Cerebral proctalgia--head where it doesn't belong

cerebral flyby -- everything goes right over his/her head

:rolleyes:

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Specializes in Pedatrics, Child Protection.

Code Brown.....self explanatory

Nintendo Thumb.....reason why pulse ox. monitor continuously rings off

Annjeh

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That is the truth, Phil1968 but what about hypoxanaxemia

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Specializes in Peds Urology,primary care, hem/onc.

I have a few

4F- female flatulent fat and forty

MMP- mulitple medical problems

PWT- poor white trash (this is a southern saying and if you are from down south you know what this means)

Poopish - another word for constipated

On the peds floor that I worked on in nursing school (10 years ago) we had these little patient care kits shaped like school buses we gave the families. When we had babies in the NICU that really needed to go to heaven, we used to place one of them on the incubator and almost without fail they would pass on within 24 hours. We had this saying "time for the little yellow bus" everytime we had a patient that was circling the drain.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, PACU, ICU, CCU,ED,ENDO.

GBI= Gomer Boomerang Index: the interval of days that pass before a frequent flier is seen again, if it's lengthening it's a positive index.

PRN= Patient recieved nothing.

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Specializes in Med Surg, House Manager.

TBAR- That boy ain't right.

CTD- Circling the drain

DRT- Dead right there.

Nursing Challenge- You know the patient refered to....nasty, disrespectful, FMPS, want's any and all narcotic pain meds known to man on a q1 hr basis, and only by IV push......

Acute momectomy- Patient's mother needs to go home and get a life. Usually still attached by an invisible umbilical cord to their 34 yr old unmarried son, who is in the hospital for an infected toe, and feeds and bathes him every day.

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Specializes in ER/ ICU.

CCFCP- coocoo for cocoa puffs, DFO- done fell out, CTD circling the drain, UCT- unauthorized celestial transfer

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