Terms we will not admit to using

IGTGP-I got to go pee

TFTB-To fat to breathe

GPO-Good for Parts only

NQR-Not quite right as in "Im not sure what this rhythm is but its NQR."

Acute Pneumoencephalopathy - airhead

dilaudidemia-drug seeker/dilaudid levels low.

demerolemia-demerol levels low.

percoemia-percocet levels low.

ok I got this one in college while getting my undergrad B.S., and it was way before I ever thought about Nursing although now I am an R.N.with multiple degrees, but I still find it so ridiclosly funny and use it to this day..F.U.P.A.=Fat Upper ***** Area, and in college years ago we used to use that saying to refer to the girls that were crazy skinny, and would insist on wearing the most skin tight pants, and had this thing below the stomach, but wasn't a beer gut, it was this thing that we couldn;t describe, and one of my 13 housemates, (yea 13 girls living under one roof and no my college did not have sorites or frats) one night in a druken rant said F.U.P.A., I said what the **** is that? She said what it was, and I think I wet my pants b/c I was laughing so hard. It had nothing to do with having kids, or loosing an extreme amt. of weight, but it had to do with anorexic college girls, bindge drinking around that time of the month wearing SKIN tight pants, which I used to be one of those anorexic college kids always bindge drinking, but never wearing SKIN tight clothes anytime of the month. And to this day sometimes I catch myself saying it, at WORK as an RN and laughing when I have to explain what it is.

Alright, how about:

- Milk of Amnesia - Propofol

- Gravity Assisted Concrete Poisoning - jumped from height

- Hi 5 - HIV positive

- Urban Outdoorsman - Homeless person

- Bungee jumper - a patient who pulls on his catheter tube

Withdrawal -- EMS picking up a patient

Deposit -- EMS bringing in a patient

DRT -- Dead Right There

DRH -- Dead Right Here

OTD -- Out The Door

Code Brown -- You can guess this one:chuckle

TMI -- Too Much Information

Circling The Drain

"They're on their way to their Heavenly home"

"Norm-al-la-sine" -- Normal Saline (Good if you tell a patient you are giving this for pain ((with a doctors order of course)). They think it is a new pain medication. We actually had a patient (a FF) to say their pain got better :roll)

Code Brown.....self explanatory

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

Annjeh

We (and I assume other hospitals) have an official "Code Brown". It is a missing patient. It's posible that no nurse was consulted when these color codes were assigned but maybe- I can imagine the response to discovering one of your confused patients has gone wandering is "Oh ****"= code brown.

SAS = "Sick as ****" I use this one frequently

DOV = Dead on Vent, for those that we are breathing for them, making their heart beat etc....

We usually ad a "B"- DBOV= dead body on vent.

I can't believe no one has posted JMD=as in the patient has a bad case of Japanese Monster Disease. A patient on deaths' door that has become so fluid overloaded that their sclera edema is so pronounced it looks like ping pong balls, there tongue is hanging out and looks like a large baked potato, profound facial edema- Generally a Godzila like appearance.

KTC: kick to curb

When I worked in animal medicine (before nursing), we used these terms:

DIC=Death is Coming

Peek and Shriek (for a surgery where you open the pt up, shriek because the problem is irreparable, and close them without doing anything).

How about a foreverplasty? Refers to all the cases the "known slow surgeon" does!

Withdrawal -- EMS picking up a patient

Deposit -- EMS bringing in a patient

DRT -- Dead Right There

DRH -- Dead Right Here

OTD -- Out The Door

Code Brown -- You can guess this one:chuckle

TMI -- Too Much Information

Circling The Drain

"They're on their way to their Heavenly home"

"Norm-al-la-sine" -- Normal Saline (Good if you tell a patient you are giving this for pain ((with a doctors order of course)). They think it is a new pain medication. We actually had a patient (a FF) to say their pain got better :roll)

I didn't actually mean to thank you for this post, but to hit reply.

Telling a patient that they are recieving a medication for pain which is not actually an analgesic, even with an MD order, has ethical and possible legal implications.

Certainly, if you explain that normal saline is being given to address dehydration, for instance, and that you expect that to improve the pain, that would be fine. But if you are actually using it as a placebo and representing it to the patient as an analgesic medication, that is an abuse of their trust in you and the rest of the health care team.

I'm not going to say that I haven't been tempted to do this before. But I know that if I were the patient, and I learned that such a trick had been played on me, I would be calling hospital administration and the professional boards of the caregivers involved.