Nurses General Nursing
Published Oct 6, 2007
I hate when people refer to emesis as "PUKE" ......nasty term !
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Praiser
rn undisclosed name
351 Posts
I also don't like the word expired.
I'm not a big fan of congestive heart failure either. Patients can freak out when they hear that. If there is "any" indication the pt may have chf we have to start the teaching. So, if there is a cxr and it says enlarged heart we are doing the teaching. An elevated BNP - bam some more teaching.
tvccrn, ASN, RN
762 Posts
Everytime I read the word "chyme" I feel like gagging. It's the only medical-related word I've ever seen that gets to me.
I had to look this one up, I have never heard it in use anywhere I have worked.
SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
10,263 Posts
digital fecal disimpaction
EmmaG, RN
2,999 Posts
At least chyme is food.
Multicollinearity, BSN, RN
3,119 Posts
I'm in my last semester of pre-reqs. I keep reading this word in my Medical Nutrition class. Good to know it's not used in the clinical setting!
My text's definition for chyme includes the words "soupy" and "sludge-like" for the liquid mixture of undigested food in the stomach.
Treat et Street
41 Posts
Smegma...
You win.
leslie :-D
11,191 Posts
eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
smegmaaaaaaaa.
leslie
I work with certain docs who for some reason try to give me verbal orders for that one. Oh they think they are so funny! They can never do it with a straight face either.
VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN
22 Articles; 9,987 Posts
eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...smegmaaaaaaaa.leslie
Yup........that's WAY worse than obese.
YEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCHHHHHHH!!!
lpnstudentin2010, LPN
1,318 Posts
what is smegma?
mizfradd, CNA
295 Posts
How much are y'all willing to bet somewhere in the world, some nutty parents have named their kids Chyme and Smegma?
When I saw a little girl named Chlamydia (recently) and a boy named Renal (a few yrs. ago), I figure anything is possible nowadays!