At our center here in town, they do CNA training and every time they begin a new class, the students have to take a pre-test that they are supposed to fail. Some of the questions are multiple choice, but there are a few sections that are not. Usually people don't even try to fill these in (many of them don't even answer all the multiple choice ones, which is ridiculous because you have a 25% chance of being right!), but I was grading some today and one student guessed on pretty much every question and cracked me up. I had to giggle. Because, according to this student:
AD LIB = adaptive liberal
STAT = sugar, temperature, adult, thermometer
QID = Quit in disgust
NPO = No patient left out
QH = Quietly humming
ROM = radial osteo matching
The inability to speak = mute
Seeing, hearing, or feeling something that is not real = crazy
The lack or absence of breathing = suffocating
The frequent passage of liquid stools = frequent urination
The amount of force exerted against the walls or an artery by the blood = pulse force
Post mortem care = nursing home
Bluish discoloration of the skin = cold
In conclusion, awesome. Made my Monday.
6 comments:
Oh... my. Glad I never have to deal with that person.
You know... I was thinking last night... if QH meant quietly humming it would have saved me some hassles dealing with diabetic mothers who had QH blood sugars and urine dips on a GI infusion.
Hah. I would love to know what thir student would have decided GI meant... Growling inside? Gurgling impatiently? Gregarious independent? (would go well with adaptive liberal) Guessing idiot?
I sort of thought the "adaptive liberal" could be... sort of... what ad lib means. Maybe. It's adaptive to what the person wants to do... and as liberal as you want it to be... (there are a lot of...'s in this commment. Mostly because I am completely entertained, if not disturbed. And while I am all parenthetical, I don't think I knew what this stuff meant before I had a class that taught it to me).
Whoa. Too many Ms.
Oh, and ROM can have 2 meanings. It can mean range of motion, but I always used it as rupture of membranes, and ROJM as range of joint motion. Then I'd add an S for spontaneous rupture of membranes or and A for artificial rupture of membranes. I think people make stuff up as they go. But some of the abbreviations on the test they are giving at your center are on the "do not use" abbreviations list. Why I am I still talking about this?
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