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    Hospital Lingo: A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak
    Hospital Lingo: A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak
    Hospital Lingo: A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak
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    Hospital Lingo: A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak

    By J. K. Moore

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    Being hospitalized is not like going to the spa for a weekend of rejuvenation and relaxation. You are there because you need the expertise of the medical staff to help you become healthy again. You are probably upset by what is going on in your body, so you don’t need the frustration of not being able to understand what is being said about you and to you. Most people don’t realize how confusing Hospital Lingo can be for the outsider. For this reason, the author offers this guide with light and laughter as a primer for patients and for visitors. Perhaps it will encourage you to relax a bit and let the professionals do their best work. Understand the lingo as you step into the hospital, which is an entirely unfamiliar world to most of us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781796057669
    Hospital Lingo: A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak

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      Book preview

      Hospital Lingo - J. K. Moore

      HOSPITAL LINGO

      A Patient’s Guide to Hospital Speak

      J. K. Moore

      Copyright © 2019 by J. K. Moore.

      Interior Art: Elaine Clayton

      Cover Art: John Pritchett

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2019913459

      ISBN:       Hardcover                      978-1-7960-5768-3

                       Softcover                         978-1-7960-5767-6

                       eBook                              978-1-7960-5766-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 09/04/2019

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      Contents

      Intro

      Orientation and Terminology

      Admitted

      Patients and Patience

      Inpatients and Outpatients

      Positive and Negative

      Humorous vs. Humerus

      Bypass

      Cabbage or CABG

      ICU

      Port

      Void

      Stat

      SOB

      IV

      Eloped

      Arrest

      Defib

      Escort Service

      Coverage

      Insure vs. Ensure

      CAT

      Stool

      Acuity

      Resident

      BID

      TID

      QID

      PRN

      Stent

      Rest

      Restraint

      Clear

      Code or Coded

      Discharge

      DVT

      Incontinent

      Incontinence

      Litter

      AMA

      AOB

      Stroke

      Labor

      Birthing

      Delivery

      Afterbirth

      Acquired

      NPO

      Advanced

      MOM

      Ula

      Guarded

      Abscess

      Aggressive

      Afebrile

      VENT

      Specimen

      Tissue

      Cath or Kath

      Stable

      Cuffed

      Terminal

      Circling the Drain

      Nursing

      Intro

      One of the things that can be even

      more frustrating than being

      hospitalized as a patient is not

      being able to understand what

      hospital staff is saying to you or

      about you. Most people don’t

      realize how confusing Hospital

      Lingo can be.

      For this reason, I

      offer this humorous guide

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