What is a code gray?

[abbaking]

Last night at work a "Code Gray" was overhead paged in the Children's Crisis Intervention Unit (CCIS- aka psych) and I have NO idea what this is. There is no reference to it in the policy/procedure maunal. Any ideas what this could be?

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[bosnanurse]

Code gray is "a missing patient" in my place. Code Blue is agitated patient or some crisis with patients.

[APBT mom, LPN, RN]

Code gray is security at the facilities around here. It gets called when anyone's being aggresive towards any of the employees including family members of the patients.

I agree with everyone else you should find out where the codes are and make sure that you know them. Ask security or the receptionist that works the switchboard. They're the ones that usually call the codes overhead.

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Our code gray is an injured patient or visitor. It truly varies from facility to facility.

[Charity, RN, APRN]

It does vary from place to place. At my hospital "Code White" is for a combative person, whereas "Code Gray" goes to our neuro team for someone having a stroke.

[Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN]

Where I worked code gray was very bad thunder storm, code black was tornado on the ground and headed for you

[Mobeeb, RN]

At our place, it's a tornado.

[RedWeasel, RN]

we have code GREENS for angry combatives (security used to wear green uniforms), code STRONG is an armed intruder/visitor...code BLACK is bomb threat-----from what I have heard

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

Code grey here is for a combative person. I have worked where a code grey is for weather.

We have a code green for a missing pt.

Code silver is a person with a weapon.

[Valanda]

The last facility I worked in, code gray meant state inspectors were in the building. I guess cause they came in like a thunderstorm?

The person who made up our codes was kind of funny. Our code for a tornado was "code rainbow" as in "Somewhere over the rainbow..." At least I never had to double-check what that one meant.

All the codes were printed on the backs of our name-badges anyway, so I never really had to look them up.

[jmgrn65, RN]

Means tornado in our facility

i thought that all of code/colors were universal. But it is only universal if all other use the same. We don't have one for combative patient.

[mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP]

Gray for us is weather

Black is bomb

Purple is security risk - AWOL patients

Interesting it's not in your P&P and no one seems to know......

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

Gray - security threat (doesn't specify beyond that)

Silver - hostage

Black - mass power/computer outage or cyberterrorism

We have all our codes on the back of our badge too.