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You probably won't see this nurse slang in a medical journal anywhere.
- If you've ever been a patient in the ER or a doctor's office, odds are you've heard a nurse throw around some unusual words or phrases.
- Thanks to popular TV hospital dramas, we're familiar with phrases such as "coding", "stat," and "crash cart".
- But there are other names, phrases, and abbreviations nurses use to describe situations and patients to each other that you just wouldn't know the meaning of unless you asked. So Business Insider asked.
Medical jargon is pretty impossible for anyone outside of the profession to understand.
TV shows and documentaries have gone some way in shining a light on some of the confusing acronyms and phrases used in hospitals and doctors offices.
But there are still plenty of words we're left in the dark about.
Business Insider asked seven nurses and scoured Quora to find out just what the secret phrases nurses use on the job really mean.