Comments on: Top 47 slang terms nurses use http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/ Fri, 25 May 2012 00:51:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: drummerrn http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-21153 drummerrn Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:23:05 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-21153 summer teeth-- meaning some are here, some are there. summer teeth– meaning some are here, some are there.

]]> By: Stephanie D http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-21092 Stephanie D Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:18:42 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-21092 "Hospitalitis"--the condition in which someone has been a patient long enough to have apparently lost all ability to do for themselves. Similar to "FMPS": Fluff My Pillow Syndrome already mentioned. "The patient in 364 kept me in there forever, moving her pitcher around on her bedside table, pulling her blanket up from her knees to her waist and back down to her knees again, placing her phone at just the right angle to pick it up easily. Time for discharge. She obviously has been stricken with hospitalitis." “Hospitalitis”–the condition in which someone has been a patient long enough to have apparently lost all ability to do for themselves. Similar to “FMPS”: Fluff My Pillow Syndrome already mentioned.

“The patient in 364 kept me in there forever, moving her pitcher around on her bedside table, pulling her blanket up from her knees to her waist and back down to her knees again, placing her phone at just the right angle to pick it up easily. Time for discharge. She obviously has been stricken with hospitalitis.”

]]> By: karma3904 http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-21017 karma3904 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:20:52 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-21017 My fav. AMYOYO = Alright Mf, you're on your own, as in I have done everything I can and you still insist on ignoring me. Ignoring MD orders. Heard a doc use this as he stormed out of a pt room. My fav. AMYOYO = Alright Mf, you’re on your own, as in I have done everything I can and you still insist on ignoring me. Ignoring MD orders. Heard a doc use this as he stormed out of a pt room.

]]> By: skoenlaper http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20687 skoenlaper Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:23:22 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20687 "Failure to die" regarding a pt that was put on Hospice because they were dying but they are still alive 6 months or more later. “Failure to die” regarding a pt that was put on Hospice because they were dying but they are still alive 6 months or more later.

]]> By: skoenlaper http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20686 skoenlaper Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:20:37 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20686 POF -- I had a doctor once who would write this in his orders for difficult patients. (Pillow over Face) POF — I had a doctor once who would write this in his orders for difficult patients. (Pillow over Face)

]]> By: owgirls http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20453 owgirls Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:08:33 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20453 "time bomb" home pt. smoking while on oxygen per nasal canula “time bomb” home pt. smoking while on oxygen per nasal canula

]]> By: owgirls http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20452 owgirls Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:03:34 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20452 "circling the drain" Hospice Pt. with systems shutting down, about to die...."I need comfort kit now, pt. is circling the drain." “circling the drain” Hospice Pt. with systems shutting down, about to die….”I need comfort kit now, pt. is circling the drain.”

]]> By: NurseDaisy http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20359 NurseDaisy Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:40:12 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20359 CRCI= Chronic Rectal Cranial Inversion...one of my faves! CRCI= Chronic Rectal Cranial Inversion…one of my faves!

]]> By: rakhel http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20123 rakhel Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:46:06 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20123 smoking breast: breastfed baby of mother who smokes smoking breast: breastfed baby of mother who smokes

]]> By: rakhel http://scrubsmag.com/top-25-slang-terms-for-nurses/#comment-20122 rakhel Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:45:06 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=13314#comment-20122 CAN: umbilical Cord Around fetus' Neck Bili Baby: baby under phototherapy for increased bilirubin PUPPPs rash: Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (pregnancy rash) IOL for mat anx: Induction Of Labor for maternal anxiety BUFA: Baby Up For Adoption NWS: Neonatal Withdrawal Syndrome CAN: umbilical Cord Around fetus’ Neck
Bili Baby: baby under phototherapy for increased bilirubin
PUPPPs rash: Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (pregnancy rash)
IOL for mat anx: Induction Of Labor for maternal anxiety
BUFA: Baby Up For Adoption
NWS: Neonatal Withdrawal Syndrome

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