- Common nicknames for frequently used hospital items
When referring to hospital equipment which nurses come across every day, nurses often give them tacky and outright funny names to have a small laugh. Code language amongst nurses is a way of referring to things without letting the patients get to know what they are talking about. “Ativan” is a nick for Vitamin A and when you hear a nurse referring to some “blue sticky thingy” they are referring to bulb aspirators. Who would have guessed that?