Nursing Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. PE tube
   pressure-equalizing tube
2. q24h
   Every 24 Hours
3. QAINS
   Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service
4. rtn(arrt)
   Registered Nuclear Medicine Technologist
5. rtr(arrt)
   registered radiography technologist
6. S-A node
   Sinoatrial Node
7. s.gl.
   without correction (without glasses)
8. S.Q.
   Subcutaneous
9. SAMBA
   Society of Ambulatory Anesthesiologists
10. SCI/D
    spinal cord injury and disorder
11. SINI
    Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics
12. SNOOP
    Systematic Nurses Observation of Psychopathology
13. T cells
    lymphocytes originating in the thymus gland
14. WF/BF
    white female/black female
15. WM/BM
    white male/black male
16. S/Sx
    Signs and Symptoms
17. BRBRP
    Bright Red Blood Per Rectum
18. K-CL
    Potassium Chloride
19. ratx
    Radiation Therapy
20. S-2
    second sacral vertebra

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