Definition:

Licensed Paid Nanny. A slight on the actual definition of LPN, which is licensed practical nurse. LPNs often work in private home health care.

Usage:

Maybe the LPN can do my laundry, too.

Synonyms:

licensed practical nurses, licensed vocational nurses

Created Nov 24, 2009

Definition:

When a doctor or nurse discovers a potential problem with a patient and decides to pretend it's not there and hope it goes away.

Usage:

We opened him up and found a strange abscess. Given all the other complications we were dealing with, we decided that the ostrich treatment would be the best course of action.

Synonyms:

peek and shriek

Created Dec 12, 2009

Definition:

The nurse that just came off of a 6-week training course and acts as though he or she is a doctor.

Usage:

What's with the new noctor on the floor? Can you believe she had to gall to demand the patient with the Swan?

Created Mar 06, 2010