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Artery

 The study of fine paintings

 

Barium

 What you do when CPR fails

 

Cafe’-au-lait spot

 A great little coffee shop

 

Cesarean Section

 A district in Rome

 

Cilia   

 A girl’s name

 

Colic         

 A sheep dog

 

Coma  

 A punctuation mark

 

Congenital 

 Friendly

 

Dilate 

 To live long

 

Fascia

 A Nazi communist

 

GI Series 

 Baseball games between teams of soldiers

 

Hangnail

 A coat hook

 

Medical Staff

 A doctor’s cane

 

Minor Operation

 Coal digging

 

Morbid 

 A higher offer

 

Nitrate

 Lower than the day rate

 

Node    

 Was aware of

 

Organic

 Church musician

 

Outpatient

 A person who has fainted

 

Protein 

 In favor of young people

 

Secretion

 Hiding anything

 

Tumor

 An extra pair

 

Urine

 Opposite of “you’re out”

 

Varicose Veins

 Veins that are very close together


 


 
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1. PITA


Definition: Pain in the as$


Usage: The patient’s whiny girlfriend is such a PITA!


 

2. BATS


Definition: Broke all to sh*t.


Usage: That poor kid has a BATS fracture from falling out of a tree.


 


3. FMPS


Definition: “Fluff my pillow” syndrome. A demanding patient that acts sicker than they really are.


Usage: Watch out for room 304; she’s got a real case of FMPS.


 

4. CAH


Definition: Crazy as  h&&&

Usage: The patient is sweet, but I’m diagnosing his mother with CAH.


 


5. FTF


Definition: Failure to fly. Usually used in cases of head bumps, but can be used to describe various traumas.


Usage: She broke her leg jumping off the roof–I’m diagnosing it as a FTF.


 


6. Rotater


Definition: A patient so complex or high maintenance that they have to be rotated to a different nurse each day to prevent staff burnout.


Usage: She uses the call button so often that she’s going to be a rotater!


 

7. Dr. Too Long


Definition: A nurse’s message for a physician who is tied up with a very long-winded patient and can’t escape.


Usage: Excuse me, Doctor? Dr. Too Long needs to speak with you immediately!


 

8. Jack in the Box


Definition: A patient who can’t stand or walk yet insists on trying.


 


9. FDGB


Definition: An acronym used in the ER which stands for ‘Fall Down Go Boom.’


  


10. F/U


Definition: A shortened version of ‘Follow Up.’

 


11. Crispies


Definition: A patient who is a tanning booth victim.


 


12. Trainwreck


Definition: A patient with multiple health problems and multiple diagnoses that has no business on a med-surg floor but doesn’t “qualify” for ICU until they code in the middle of the night.


 


13. The Whine Line


Definition: A term used among prison nurses referring to inmates who suddenly need to see medical because it’s raining and they don’t want to go to work. In the hospital they are the uninsured that show up in the ER at 0200 with sniffles, etc.


Usage: It’s cold and rainy out there. Gonna have a whine line this morning.


 

14. Malibu Barbie School of Medicine


Definition: Where the resident doctors who wear six inch heels, short skirts, and acrylic nail tips attended medical school.


 


15. lantern test


Definition: To shine a pen light in a patient’s mouth and see their eyes light up (i.e. they have no brain).


 


16. young invincibles


Definition: A term used by the healthcare industry along with the government to describe the growing population of uninsured twenty-somethings. This group is considered to be among the healthiest. There are many reasons why these young adults lack insurance: They’re no longer on their parents’ plan, they have jobs that don’t offer employer-based coverage, etc. Of the ones who do have insurance, many will decline either because of financial reasons or simply a feeling of being “invincible,” so it’s not a priority. This growing population of uninsured young adults is a concern of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and measures are being undertaken to address this problem.


Usage: Every year, more and more of our new employees are refusing our health insurance. These young invincibles will have to learn the hard way!


Synonyms: invincibles


17. Nintendo thumb


Definition: A video game-related health problem classified as a form of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The symptoms are the blistering, paraesthesia and swelling of the thumbs, mainly through use of the directional pad, though any finger can be affected. This can lead to stress on tendons, nerves and ligaments in the hands, and further onto lateral epicondylitis (“tennis elbow”), tendinitis, bursitis and carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).


Usage: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Ow! I think I have Nintendo thumb.


Synonyms: gamer’s grip, Nintenditis, PlayStation thumb


18. another one bites the dust


Definition: A 1980s funk-rock song by Queen with a tempo that approximates the proper interval between CPR chest compressions when hummed in your head.


Usage: Jane: Am I performing the chest compressions too quickly?” Tammy: “Ever heard the 1980s smash hit ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen? Just hum that tune, do your compressions in step with the song’s tempo and you’ll be fine.”


Synonyms: staying alive


19. professional patient


Definition: A person who feigns illnesses for various reasons. PPs often include malingerers filling a psychological need, drug runners seeking prescriptions or drugs to be sold later, and those with Munchausen syndrome.


Usage: Man, this guy’s definitely a professional patient. As soon as we offered morphine, he quickly said it made him sick and asked for Dilaudid.


20. pumpkin positive


Definition: The notion that a patient’s brain is so small that shining a penlight into her mouth will result in her empty head glowing like a Halloween pumpkin.


Usage: Well, I just had a patient admit to using Smucker’s as contraceptive jelly. Needless to say she’s pumpkin positive.


Synonyms: dumb, stupid, dolt, idiot, moron

 

21. Avatar blues


Definition: The depression experienced by a select few people after having viewed James Cameron’s 2009 box office hit movie Avatar. The movie depicts an idyllic world with a tight-knit tribe of aliens battling to save their planet from human invaders. Themes in the movie include analogs to modern-day problems like global warming, war and capitalism, threaded together with a love story. The movie’s most prevalent feature is its cinematic effects, particularly 3-D.


Viewers leaving the theaters have been said to reflect on their current life or how authentically it paralleled the destruction of our own earth, and a helpless feeling.


CNN was the first to report this phenomenon, and it is disputed whether this is a true clinical problem or glorified reporting.


Usage: Person 1: Jack’s not coming out with us tonight—what’s going on? Person 2: He fell victim to the Avatar blues. Same thing happened to him in 1977…but that could have just been his struggle with puberty.


22. Botox Raton


Definition: City in Florida that used to be called “Boca Raton,” but they changed the name for obvious reasons.


Usage: Halfway between Palm Beach and Miami, there’s Botox Raton.


 
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23. fits


Definition: Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity.


Usage: We were watching The Biggest Loser on TV and she just started having fits.


24. fighting Darwin


Definition: A patient is fighting Darwin if he or she refuses essential treatment through stubbornness or stupidity.


Usage: She’s refusing all medical care because it’s the Sabbath. Boy, she’s really fighting Darwin.


25. chart dehiscence


Definition: When a patient’s chart is dropped and everything falls out.


Usage: Oh! Not again! Second chart dehiscence of the night!


26. pack-years


Definition: A crude indicator of a person’s cumulative cigarette consumption, equal to the number of packs of cigarettes smoked/day multiplied by years of consumption.


Usage: We should really measure his consumption in pack-years. It’s probably close to 150.


27. jimmy leg


Definition: An uncontrollable shake or tremor of the leg.


Usage: I couldn’t fall asleep next to her, dude she’s got the jimmy legs.


Synonyms: jimmy legs, the shakes


28. baci


Definition: Bacitracin. An antibiotic used in wound irrigation operatively. Pronounced bass-e (bass like the fish).


Usage: Tech to relief tech: “This has baci in it.”


Synonyms: bacitracin


29. Band-Aid hospital


Definition: A popular term for a healthcare facility that provides for minimal care of significance.


Usage: I was hoping to get a job at a Level I trauma center, not at a Band-Aid hospital. I guess you don’t always get what you want. I learned that from the Rolling Stones.


30. noctor


Definition: The nurse who just came off of a six-week training course and acts as though she is a doctor.


Usage: What’s with the new noctor on the floor? Can you believe she had to gall to demand the patient with the Swan?



31. pharm party


Definition: Where kids get together to share drugs pilfered from their parents’ pill bottles. Painkillers such as Percocet, Vicodin, OxyContin and other similar drugs are preferred for their “feel good” and numbing effect. Alcohol is routinely combined while taking the drugs.


There have been reports of kids openly sharing the pills in one communal bowl with no identifying information about the drug; sometimes the drugs are presented mixed together in a bag they call “trail mix.”


Some experts argue there is a lack of substantive data to label this as a phenomenon or a growing problem, and is more likely something sensationalized by media, law enforcement and educators.


Usage: Person 1: What do you guys want to do tonight? Person 2: Pharm party at Andy’s. I’m trying to get some of my brother’s OxyContin.


Synonyms: pharma party, pharming party, pill party





32. pothole sign


Definition: A clinical sign of acute appendicitis, referring to the severe pain evoked by every bump (or pothole) in the road felt on the drive to the hospital.


Usage: Yeah, he was positive for the pothole sign—said the ride in was brutal.


33. negative wallet biopsy


Definition: When a patient is transferred to a cheaper, less intensive hospital after discovering he has no health insurance.


Usage: Yeah, the negative wallet biopsy meant he was going to King-Harbor. Welcome to healthcare in America.

 


34. black vomit


Definition: Vomit from old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever.


Usage: I saw the black vomit and I knew she was in trouble.


Synonyms: xekik


35. silent killer


Definition: A slang term for a condition that can progress to very advanced stages before manifesting itself clinically.


Usage: They say that obesity is the silent killer, but I’d say that it’s really all the heroin that he’s been doing for the past 10 years.


36. fluid overload


Definition: Hypervolemia. It’s the medical condition where there is too much fluid in the blood. This fluid, primarily salt and water, builds up in various locations in the body and leads to an increase in weight, swelling in the legs and arms (peripheral edema), and/or fluid in the abdomen (ascites). Eventually, the fluid enters the air spaces in the lungs, reduces the amount of oxygen that can enter the blood and causes shortness of breath (dyspnea). Fluid can also collect in the lungs when lying down at night, possibly making nighttime breathing and sleeping difficult (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea).


Usage: I’m a little worried that we may run the risk of fluid overload if we perform the surgery.


Synonyms: hypervolemia


37. medical futility


Definition: Either a judgment that further medical treatment of a patient would have no useful result or a medical treatment whose success is possible although reasoning and experience suggest that it’s highly improbable.


Usage: What do I think? Medical futility.


38. the patient is high risk


Definition: The patient has HIV, Aids, or Hepatitis, so be aware.


Usage: Be sure to wear eye protection, the patient is high risk.



 


39. questionable doctor


Definition: A physician who has been sanctioned for serious state and federal offenses and placed on a list by the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.


Usage: Umm, he’s a questionable doctor. He’s been sanctioned for handing out painkillers like Tic Tacs.


Synonyms: impaired physician


40. NPS


Definition: New parent syndrome. A propensity to bring your child to the hospital for every trivial thing. Used in charting.


Usage: Baby had hiccups, sent home. NPS.


Synonyms: parenthood


41. frequent flyer


Definition: One who visits healthcare providers, emergency departments, etc. for every little health problem, often drug seeking or wanting work excuses.




42. boyfriend


Definition: The cute little old men who are a joy to take care of.




43. BONITA


Definition: An acronym used in the ER which stands for ‘Big ‘Ol Needle in the A$$.’


Usage: I’m about to give this patient a bonita.




44. DFO


Defintion: Acronym for ‘Done Fell Out.’




45. MD


Definition: Acronym for Makes Decisions.


Usage: Do you see MD after my name? That means Makes Decisions.




46. RN


Definition: Acronym for Refuses/Resists Nonsense.


Usage: Do you see RN after my name? It stands for Resists/Refuses Nonsense!



47. TMB


Definition: Acronym for ‘Too Many Birthdays.’


 
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What does RN mean?


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RN is "Right Now" or "Registered Nurse"

 


 




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The definition of RN is "Right Now" or "Registered Nurse"

 


 




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RN means "Right Now" or "Registered Nurse"

 

 

 


Other terms relating to 'right':


 


•AIGHT

 

All right


 


•AIKRN

 

All I know right now


 


•AMIRITE

 

Am I Right?


 


•BRB

 

Be Right Back


 


•BRH

 

Be Right Here


 


•BRT

 

Be Right There


 


•CTRN

 

Cant Talk Right now


 


•DRM

 

Digital Rights Management


 


•DRT

 

Dead Right There


 


•DTRT

 

Do The Right Thing


 


•HRC

 

Human Rights Campaign


 


•IKR

 

I Know, Right


 


•IKTR

 

I Know That's Right


 


•IMSMR

 

If Memory Serves Me Right


 


•INORITE

 

I Know, Right?


 


•IYT

 

All right


 


•IYTE

 

All right


 


•JDLR

 

Just Doesn't Look Right


 


•KRO

 

Keep Right On


 


•NAIL IT

 

Complete, get right


 


•NQR

 

Not Quite Right


 


•PLR

 

Private Label Rights


 


•RAWR

 

Right Answer, Wrong Reason


 


•RBAU

 

Right Back At You


 


•RBAY

 

Right Back At You


 


•RFT

 

Right First Time


 


•RHD

 

Right Hand Drive


 


•RITE

 

Right

Write


 


•RKBA

 

Right to Keep and Bear Arms


 


•ROAR

 

Right Of Admission Reserved


 


•ROS

 

Right On Schedule


 


•RWNJ

 

Right Wing Nut Job


 


•RYT

 

Right, alright


 


•SWIR

 

So Wrong, It's Right


 


•WAYDRN

 

What Are You Doing Right Now?


 


•WEPA

 

All right, cool, yeah!


 


•WONKY

 

Weird, not right


 


•WTTIR

 

When The Time Is Right


 


•YGTR

 

You Got That Right


 


•YR

 

Yea, Right.


 


•YRO

 

Your Rights Online


 


 




Other terms relating to 'registered':


 


•NARU

 

Not A Registered User


 


 




Other terms relating to 'nurse':


 


•MURSE

 

Man purse

Male nurse

 

 

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