[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by wolf

We've gotten a lot of sternly worded memos about abbreviations at work.

Not that we were ever actually using FLK, but we're not allowed to any longer, because it's not on the approved list.

What nobody ever explains is how things get on and off the approved list.

One of the most useful ones that we're banned from using ... h.s.

It means "hour of sleep." There is no other abbreviation for which it can be mistaken. None. We have to actually write out the entire word "bedtime" now, which is in danger of being confused for "bid."

We've also lost d/c, which can be "discontinue" or "discharge" depending on context.

They're taking all the good ones.

I'm not sure where they stand on SCUT, which doesn't mean what you think. It has nothing to do with unpleasant, menial, useless tasks, although SCUTs can cause scut.

It stands for "Schizophrenia, Chronic, Undifferentiated Type" and is obviously much easier to write on a chart.

And we write it a lot.

It's one of our more popular diagnoses.

Joint Commission has pushed most of this stuff wolf. I don't know if you guys use them as an accreditation agency but most hospitals do. They have made some good changes in standardization but their inspections still lack significant inter rater reliability.