WDWN - do you use this abbreviation?

[pinkiepie_RN]

I was going through charts at work recently (chart checks, yay!) and found that nursing students were writing A&O x 4, WDWN in their notes. Now, I knew what A&O x 4 stood for but the WDWM puzzled my colleagues and I. I've now discovered that it stands for well developed, well nourished, but it's not something I would put in my individual patient notes and it's not an abbreviation I learned in nursing school. What do you all have to say about that? Was I just sheltered as a student?

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

It doesn't mean "fat," it means "healthy."

I know it didn't mean fat or obese-really. . . it still bugged me. You know middle-aged women . . they take offense at the slightest thing.

P.S. I've seen it in physician's notes for years . . written out . . .so it was no surprise to me but to see it written about me . . . ;-)

steph

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

Never heard of it before. Sounds dumb though - you can't tell if someone is "well nourished" by looking at them. I've had people who were plump but very malnourished via lab results etc.

[elkpark]

Never heard of it before. Sounds dumb though - you can't tell if someone is "well nourished" by looking at them. I've had people who were plump but very malnourished via lab results etc.

I used to see physicians use it routinely. However, it was never intended as a final, definitive pronoucement on someone's nutritional status -- it was a reference to the person's physical appearance; the client appeared "well-nourished, well-developed" (of average/typical height/weight) on initial visual inspection (i.e., nothing obviously amiss). After all, you can't say someone looks normal -- now, that's really meaningless! It was (is?) just an attempt to say something a little more useful than "client looks normal."

[TreehuggerRN]

I believe most places are wanting to get away from using abbreviations altogether.

[NeedchangeofPace]

Gee when I first saw WDWN I thought it meant Walt Disney World Nurse:D

[leslie :-D]

i too, requested a copy of an er visit and it read "OMGWAHT".

after a lot of detective work, i found out it meant "oh my gawd, what a hot tamale"...

and that this er doc was actually an escaped pt from the upstairs psych unit.

no wonder he was wearing that silly groucho disguise.

leslie:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

i too, requested a copy of an er visit and it read "OMGWAHT".

after a lot of detective work, i found out it meant "oh my gawd, what a hot tamale"...

and that this er doc was actually an escaped pt from the upstairs psych unit.

no wonder he was wearing that silly groucho disguise.

leslie:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Don't let Kolohe get wind of this :yeahthat: . . .he'll have such fun with it. :roll

When I first became a nurse, I read "House of God" . . .which had many many abbreviations not fit to print here. :imbar

steph:D

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Never heard of it before. Sounds dumb though - you can't tell if someone is "well nourished" by looking at them. I've had people who were plump but very malnourished via lab results etc.

Yes, definitely. You often don't get heavy eating fruit and lean sources of protein.

[leslie :-D]

Don't let Kolohe get wind of this :yeahthat: . . .he'll have such fun with it. :roll

steph:D

yeah well, you know what i say about that?

ITKITOANSC.

take that, kolohe.

leslie:omy:

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

Never ever heard of that abbreviation until this thread...I graduated rather recently in May 2008.

[mamamerlee, LPN]

In reference to 'House of God', which was filmed at a hospital in Philadelphia, (the old Graduate Hospital), the best ever was GOMER - Get Out of My Emergency Room. And of course - Gomers go to ground. That was around 1979-80. We all read it. And laughed our butts off!