THIS. The only nurses who use all the bullshit med terms they spent, omigosh, a WHOLE SEMESTER learning are brand new nurses, nurses whose attitudes predispose them to feeling superior to everybody else, and nursing students except in the case of charting and maybe interacting with a physician (though, IME, they also don’t tend to use bullshit med terms).
The industry has a well known, widely accepted, and often used abbreviation for “full of shit”; nurses don’t HAVE to say that something is “erythematous” or that an illness or infection is “nosocomial”, or that a patient has diminished bowel sounds r/t poss. fecal impaction aeb no BM x4 days, they CHOOSE TO because they are, by and large, pompous assholes.
OMG, I am so happy my clinicals are over and I never have to write another full Nursing Care Plan EVAH! Charting notes, sure. Need to know what to “prioritize”, sure. But NO MORE FRICKING NURSING CARE PLANS!!! WHEEEEE!!!
(Until I start my BSN program. sigh)
The plan is to use 5’ forward and 3’ reverse primers to generate a full-length PCR product with a HIS tag. Then we’ll drop that product into a blunt-end TOPO vector, transfect the construct into D21 cells and induce with IPTG. The resulting protein will be purified using 10 kD cutoff membranes in DEPC buffer O/N and FPLC fractionation using a nickle column. Final concentrations will be determined using a Bradford assay.
And you know, all of this sounds normal to me. shudder
Lord almighty, this. I’m still in training and just on the enlisted side of military medicine but damn are there a lot of acronyms between the two. (Particularly, right now, the medical side - I’m doing an EMT course and they try to just turn the entire thing into acronyms, so your RTA consists of BSI, SNNAC, GCLC, AB(RRQ)C(CCT & RRQ)D(ALS?)E(DCAP, BTLS, TIC, TRDP, BUDS, JVD, TD), F(S[OPQRSTI]AMPLE), G(LSD); finally you do your PCR.
And at this point I’m so ass-deep in military jargon (because as an AIT soldier I’m still under TRADOC, which loves BS - don’t even think about trying to so much as cross the CTA without a battle, or leave the BN footprint without your phase card - that shit’ll get you at least a counseling, probably an Article 15. The phase card is particular bullshit because I didn’t even know they could require us to carry that in civvies, just that it was an inspectable item in our ACUs - saw a guy get scuffed up for not having it in the METC DFAC - but there you go. At least we don’t need our SAPR or ACE cards…) that it’s hard to separate it from how real people talk.
Congratulations. I really really fuggin hated those and although you write care plans all the time you never write them the way you do in nursing school.
Now since I work in a blood (well plasma) collection centre I have had to learn NEW jargon and especially acronyms (WTF is with all these GD acronyms. I swear after I while I go OMG! TL;DR and I D&R to get a DD from Timmy’s before I end up ROTFS (rolling on the floor seizuring!))
There are layers upon layers of jargon, acronyms, acronyms with other acronyms in them, and just plain weirdness. For instance, anything that is wrong must be error corrected using “GMP” well it isn’t really GMP its GDP but everyone says GMP and uses it as a verb. I will get a note like:
Mona Lisa please GMP the RD for NO CVS. Also put No vCJD risk under 7d before we send to QA or you might need to fill out an NCR
Translation: Please error correct using the standards of Good Manufacturing Process the Record of Donation. The medication causes no cardiovascular symptoms and no adverse effects. Please also put that the donor has no variant Cruzfeld-Jacob disease under question 7a before we send it to quality assurance for you might have to fill out a Non Conformance Report.
You got it right (wow), but I’m now working for the enemy as a “business consultant” (no, I am not the kind who gets called in to fire people: I often create jobs!)
Charting notes, sure. Need to know what to “prioritize”, sure. But NO MORE FRICKING NURSING CARE PLANS!!! WHEEEEE!!!