@lab.rat101: Just a funny moment i experienced the other day😂 still love the nurses! #greenscreen #hospitalhumor #laboratory #healthcare #labtech

Cheyenne 🕷️ :

My brain went polymerase chain reaction 🧍🏽‍♀️

af :

Yesterday I called a critical to the ICU. Blood culture. GPC in chains aerobic bottle. The nurse says, “okay what is it?” I repeat, “GPC chains aerobic bottle.” She says “no like what’s the number?” I said “number? It’s a blood culture” she said she would just look for the number when I released it. I’m so scared.

Brian Tozer :

Called a positive DAT once. They called back and said “actually can you cancel that, the doc meant diet as tolerated” 💀

Cody Ball :

And they act like you’re supposed to know! Like girl PCR is a methodology, not a protein creatinine ratio. The acronyms for them are not our acronyms. We would never call it that lol

Sarah S :

I once got a paper order for a Kline Howard Beta Key. Yep.

kaylj954 :

I had a nurse send me a urine for a sodium BLOOD test. I called and asked is it a sodium urine you want or blood test. She said blood test I said you sent a urine she asked if I can test that I’m like girl just recollect at this point

Jodi :

It even gets more fun when you have a Biofire and Cepheid. Lol.

Em Noir :

Nothing pisses me off faster than when they say “bun” instead of “B.U.N.”

Dj Da Goat :

Nurse: Hey I wanted to see if you could run a Na . Me: so you want a sodium . Nurse: no I just want the Na ran . 😑 Me : you know what . Ok

Guess what I learned :

someone started saying ESR like a word and now I can't stop doing it as a joke. It sounds "yes sir" said super fast

John :

I had that happen to me! My mind went exactly like your TikTok and then went to wondering if they meant the GC/CT PCR. Def explained to them that PCR is a full on methodology

Holly :

I work in flow. I had a doc call down the other morning to ask if we had received a sample on a specific patient. I said "I don't see that name on my pending, do you know which test was ordered" and she said "uhhh flow? cytometry?" GIRL! yes that is the department I work in, ALL OF OUR TESTS ARE FLOW CYTOMETRY!

manar🇰🇼 :

one time i got a call from a nurse i SPECIFICALLY said “good evening this is biochemistry lab” and she asked me what tube should she send a for a blood culture.. “maam this is BIOCHEMISTRY” and she said “yeah i know which tube for blood CULTURE”

CaillinJane :

Girl I have whole doctors doing this to me 😭

ladymadonna68 :

Where I work we know if maternity/antenatal clinic or renal is ordering it then we know it’s protein:creat

maci♡✝︎ :

And people wonder why I’m going insane more and more each shift… and I have to be nice while usually being too stunned to even speak “oh um yeah for sure I’ll get that “pcr” going for you….”

Carolina :

Fun fact: in Portugal, the PCR acronym is used for 3 different things. It's the methodology, C-reactive protein (Proteína C Reativa) and cardiorespiratory arrest (Paragem CardioRespiratória) 💀

Stacie🇨🇦 :

Sometimes I have to make sure the phone is hung up because they don’t want to hear what I have to say afterwards 😂

Danni Thoren :

During Covid times I would get calls about a PCR and the amount of times I had to say “PCR is not the name of a test it is a methodology of testing” and then would get soo frustrated with me.

Kamais :

Ooooooohhhhhhhhh......... wrong PCR....

Crispy Toast :

One time I had to call a nurse to ask what the site was for a fluid they collected. I was testing amylase in the body fluid, and the nurse looked at the order and told me it was amylase fluid 🤦

Natalie🍄🐢🧡 :

Omg they said this to me the other day!! I was so confused. Then they got mad because the protein was less than the linearity and the ratio wouldn’t calculate. “How am I supposed to treat the patient without the ratio?” I don’t know 😪 the ratio doesn’t exist when the protein is not a real number 😪

moo777 :

L&d gets me with this alllll the time

Lame Impala :

Amy Perritt869 :

I get urine with this written l the demo label all the time.... it clicked when I saw it was from labor and delivery