17 thoughts on “We used some vocabulary as this when I was nursing…”
Who the hell are they kidding? Half the fun is reading the reports!
It’s pretty macabe otherwise.
And, burn patients should not be called “Crispy Critters”.
“Burnt Toast” is appropriate.
Screaming Alpha Fires
That to is some funny shit right thar. It also adds to my vocabulary. Dumbasses
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DRT – Dead Right There
and from House of God:
GOMER (Get out of my emergency room)..
We used that phrase, GOMER…With a black gang area close by that was very common to hear every night
Management never has a sense of humor. We had some good ones back when I was an ICU nurse. You probably shouldn’t use such descriptors in the official medical record or in front of family members, but you need a little gallows humor when you deal with really bad shit all the time.
Never worked ICU except Neonatal ICU. I was a Psych nurse for first 7 years and then after a disagreement with the leather wearing fag head of the psych department I went Med/Surg, Ortho, ER, L&D and Neonatal.
Spent my first six months on a med surg floor, then went to ICU and stayed in that for 20 years then wrapped things up with 10 years in the Cath Lab. Sounds like you got a little variety, good skills to have.
Pretty funny. Worked at a psy hospital for many years (management end): should hear some of the references we use to use. Black humor (and that’s not racial) at its best.
In EMS we had DRT &T&T&T for accident victims that were scattered all over the highway: Dead Right There, and There, and There…
Management actually recently forbade our use of SOB for Short of Breath, as they’ve given the patients access to all of our notes in EPIC. 🙄
Yeah, now that the patients can access their electronic charts, gotta tone it down. More’s the pity.
“Victim was SOCMOB (Standing on corner, minding own business.)
When I worked at the regional prison. I used to tell other officers and employees including the mental health staff that those inmates who were alcoholics and drug addicts were suffering from PBS (Pickled Brain syndrome). Months later I walked by the mental health office one and I heard one of the workers talking to another one in their office about an inmate and she said he had PBS. I about busted a gut laughing.
Points of Order:
1) FDGB is every fall: syncopal, mechanical, magical. It’s both accurate, and clinically descriptive. It belongs with SOB and GSW on the list of accepted medical abbreviations.
2) Failure To Fly is all pedestrian vs. auto incidents. (“Up” wasn’t the problem. The launch was successful, it was the high-energy landing that caused the trouble.)
3) FUBAR for describing trauma patients is not only authorized, it’s canonical.
4) Psych patients may continue to be accurately described as BSC or SHRC: Bat Shit Crazy, or Shit House Rat Crazy.
5) What you tell fellow staff members face-to-face, and what you actually record in the medical record, should not be a 1:1 correspondence. If you didn’t know this without being told, you’re not tall enough for this ride.
Who the hell are they kidding? Half the fun is reading the reports!
It’s pretty macabe otherwise.
And, burn patients should not be called “Crispy Critters”.
“Burnt Toast” is appropriate.
Screaming Alpha Fires
That to is some funny shit right thar. It also adds to my vocabulary. Dumbasses
Your Avatar is back up Bear!
DRT – Dead Right There
and from House of God:
GOMER (Get out of my emergency room)..
We used that phrase, GOMER…With a black gang area close by that was very common to hear every night
Management never has a sense of humor. We had some good ones back when I was an ICU nurse. You probably shouldn’t use such descriptors in the official medical record or in front of family members, but you need a little gallows humor when you deal with really bad shit all the time.
Never worked ICU except Neonatal ICU. I was a Psych nurse for first 7 years and then after a disagreement with the leather wearing fag head of the psych department I went Med/Surg, Ortho, ER, L&D and Neonatal.
Spent my first six months on a med surg floor, then went to ICU and stayed in that for 20 years then wrapped things up with 10 years in the Cath Lab. Sounds like you got a little variety, good skills to have.
Pretty funny. Worked at a psy hospital for many years (management end): should hear some of the references we use to use. Black humor (and that’s not racial) at its best.
In EMS we had DRT &T&T&T for accident victims that were scattered all over the highway: Dead Right There, and There, and There…
Management actually recently forbade our use of SOB for Short of Breath, as they’ve given the patients access to all of our notes in EPIC. 🙄
Yeah, now that the patients can access their electronic charts, gotta tone it down. More’s the pity.
“Victim was SOCMOB (Standing on corner, minding own business.)
When I worked at the regional prison. I used to tell other officers and employees including the mental health staff that those inmates who were alcoholics and drug addicts were suffering from PBS (Pickled Brain syndrome). Months later I walked by the mental health office one and I heard one of the workers talking to another one in their office about an inmate and she said he had PBS. I about busted a gut laughing.
Points of Order:
1) FDGB is every fall: syncopal, mechanical, magical. It’s both accurate, and clinically descriptive. It belongs with SOB and GSW on the list of accepted medical abbreviations.
2) Failure To Fly is all pedestrian vs. auto incidents. (“Up” wasn’t the problem. The launch was successful, it was the high-energy landing that caused the trouble.)
3) FUBAR for describing trauma patients is not only authorized, it’s canonical.
4) Psych patients may continue to be accurately described as BSC or SHRC: Bat Shit Crazy, or Shit House Rat Crazy.
5) What you tell fellow staff members face-to-face, and what you actually record in the medical record, should not be a 1:1 correspondence. If you didn’t know this without being told, you’re not tall enough for this ride.