Re: dosage abbrieviations in prescriptions/LAURIE

[Guest guest]

Laurie you are awesome...thanks for clarifying the dosage things...it has been

driving me batty all day...Talk to you soon and get that leg pain under control

so you have fun at your son's wedding...BTW, I put almost 30 miles round trip on

my jazzy today...I took a little trip lol.

Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...> wrote:

Steve

Once a day is did and as needed is PRN.

laurie

> I'll repeat the following question, from the end of an earlier post (does this

prove no one really reads my long-ish posts? does this mean I should discontinue

same?).

>

> By the way, I think I know

> bid = twice a day

> tid = thrice a day

> qid = four a day

> but does anyone know the abbrieviation for ONCE a day?

>

> Steve D.

>

> P.S. Also, is there an abbrieviation for " as needed " ?

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Do you have people ask you what kind of chair it is all the time? I

get it from those in wheelchairs and scooters and those walking. It is

nice that people are finally becoming comfortable with asking such

questions and don't avert their eyes when there is someone in a chair.

laurie

> Laurie you are awesome...thanks for clarifying the dosage things...it has been

driving me batty all day...Talk to you soon and get that leg pain under control

so you have fun at your son's wedding...BTW, I put almost 30 miles round trip on

my jazzy today...I took a little trip lol.

>

>

>

> Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...> wrote:

> Steve

>

> Once a day is did and as needed is PRN.

>

> laurie

>

>

> > I'll repeat the following question, from the end of an earlier post (does

this prove no one really reads my long-ish posts? does this mean I should

discontinue same?).

> >

> > By the way, I think I know

> > bid = twice a day

> > tid = thrice a day

> > qid = four a day

> > but does anyone know the abbrieviation for ONCE a day?

> >

> > Steve D.

> >

> > P.S. Also, is there an abbrieviation for " as needed " ?

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

--- Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...>

wrote:

>

> > Once a day is did and as needed is PRN.

As a nurse, I've never seen did used to mean once

daily. QD is used but is now prohibited by JACHO. In

fact, we're now supposed to accept no orders using QD,

QOD, CC, MS, MgSO4, etc.

Mom to the two best kids in the world!

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I am showing my age. It was that way back when I went to college. I

looked in my current Merck Manual and alas, it has QD.

Thanks for the correction.

laurie

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> --- Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...>

> wrote:

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> >

> > > Once a day is did and as needed is PRN.

>

> As a nurse, I've never seen did used to mean once

> daily. QD is used but is now prohibited by JACHO. In

> fact, we're now supposed to accept no orders using QD,

> QOD, CC, MS, MgSO4, etc.

>

>

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> Mom to the two best kids in the world!

> http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/thomasandkatie

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[Guest guest]

Laurie,

Yeah, people all around me ask me if it's a jazzy, and just about every one of

my neigbors has taken it for a test ride and now they want one and there's

nothing wrong with them except mentally lol.

Anyway, I thought I would get some glares and mean looks on the bike path by my

house but they don't seem to mind either.

Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...> wrote:

Do you have people ask you what kind of chair it is all the time? I

get it from those in wheelchairs and scooters and those walking. It is

nice that people are finally becoming comfortable with asking such

questions and don't avert their eyes when there is someone in a chair.

laurie

> Laurie you are awesome...thanks for clarifying the dosage things...it has been

driving me batty all day...Talk to you soon and get that leg pain under control

so you have fun at your son's wedding...BTW, I put almost 30 miles round trip on

my jazzy today...I took a little trip lol.

>

>

>

> Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...> wrote:

> Steve

>

> Once a day is did and as needed is PRN.

>

> laurie

>

>

> > I'll repeat the following question, from the end of an earlier post (does

this prove no one really reads my long-ish posts? does this mean I should

discontinue same?).

> >

> > By the way, I think I know

> > bid = twice a day

> > tid = thrice a day

> > qid = four a day

> > but does anyone know the abbrieviation for ONCE a day?

> >

> > Steve D.

> >

> > P.S. Also, is there an abbrieviation for " as needed " ?

> >

> >

> >

> >