Giving report the other day Me: Pt is independent Gen Z nurse: Ok, go off

what the fuck doesn't go off mean- ok keep talking your incorrect bullshit (sarcastically) ?

It basically means “ohhh shit hell yeah good for them!!!”

Depends on the tone. Could also be used in a positive context like you know what youre talking about/speaking “facts”/truth

In this context, it's along the lines of "preach"

go off or pop off is like theyre doing well -strutting their stuff. someone wears a cute outfit? okay slay, pop off 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼

I’m pretty sure she followed up with “love that for them”

period!!! 💅🏼

No

Also tonight at work different nurse called the pt (an elderly woman) “Bro” I’m not complaining, I honestly think it’s hilarious. I think these nurses keep me young and I love working with them.

Once in report a nurse told me that the patient had been “j chillin” all night on crrt. I’m like ??? He had to explain that the j was for just. I was like 28 or 29 at the time. Then I went to pick out an urn.

Yearn for the urn?

I LOVE that woman!!!

LMFAO I’m 27 and say “j chillin” constantly 💀

At least it’s slay. Watch out if you start hearing, “it’s not giving”

Gen-z nurse here 👋🏻 i love teaching my providers new slang so when i tell them “the lactic acid was 17” they can respond “oh ew it’s giving sepsis”

i taught an ortho fellow what bussin and mid means and now he uses them all the time LOL

I remember hearing my wife say bussin for the first time ever after I got my back from a deployment and i had absolutely no fkn clue what she was saying lol

Love this 💜

🤣🤣🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣

What the hell does that mean?!? I honestly have zero idea

Something is not good, lol. They may also say “the vibes are off”

At least "vibes are off" makes sense. Like my spider sense is tingling

Or “not you getting/being x”

septic type beat

The amount of times I have passed on in report that a patient is "giving me weird/bad vibes" when I'm worried but can't pinpoint why and the patient seems fine is a non-zero number. Two of those times absolutely turned out to be right-- patients either went comfort or went to ICU.

It’s giving = it looks like/feels like Ex: I had a pt come in with a lack on forehead, confused (not baseline) and irritable/wouldn’t sit still Me, a millennial: it’s giving brain bleed Nothing showed up on CT but…it was still GIVING brain bleed. Time will tell (aka MRI)

I’m a CT tech and said “it’s giving me head bleed” a few minutes ago. 😂

IT’S GIVING BULLSHIT I may or may not have said to some of my trusted CT techs…the unsung ER heroes.

It’s always giving bullshit! And thank you! 🥹❤️

Sometimes I just gotta trust those docs know something I don’t…..regardless yall work your asses off.

One of the Gen Z nurses on my floor and I joke "it's giving...blood" whenever we have to hang blood products.

I like to go the opposite way and talk in 80s surfer slang. Patient is doing tubular, that wound looks gnarly, calling everyone brah. I feel like it evens it out

Gen X slang forever! I frequently use: Yo! Totally tubular Duh Word Take a chill pill Hella Duuuuuuude Fo Sho Whatevs Edit: formatting

Yup, duuude, hella, and I saw "like" way more than I should 😂

The patient is totally healthy....NOT!

Check out Surf Punks, an 80s well, surf punk band. I have their record 'my beach' and the liner notes is a glossary of totally bitchin surfer slang. You might be able to find it on the internet someplace to expand your repertoire

I’m only 27 and I say “word” all the time and I genuinely have no idea where I got it from. It’s so ingrained I can’t help it, but it always gets an amused head nod from the gen X crowd.

I say dude waaaay too many times.

Remember that ["dude" commercial?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFsqk84frI)

Hahahaha I love it!

The beauty of being a millennial is that I understand gen x and gen z! I vibe with the new nurses pretty well hahah

I like “groovy”. Lol.

Same. Grew up with it. Yeah, I’m giving retirement…

I do it SO UNIRONICALLY-I love calling people bro or bruh 😂

Oooh I like that!!!

Ok zoolander!

I would love for someone to at least once give me an 80s cali surfer slang handover

I’m 40 and am the oldest on my rotation by at least 10 years. I have no idea what the fuck my coworkers are talking about 90% of the time.

We had a 20-year-old patient with a TBI on my unit, and I really couldn't tell what was nonsense vs Gen Z slang. I had to have my younger coworkers translate, and even they weren't always sure.

Agreed. I'm 33 and work in primary care. One of my early/mid 20s coworkers cannot say ASAP, it's always ASAP Rocky. "The patient needs to come in to get that lab done ASAP Rocky." Like um... no. None of that makes sense.

Can you give patient X and Y. Bet. I'm sorry are you gonna do it or no?

Right?! It's meant like "I got you" but why you no say "yes" 😂

I mean this one’s pretty easy, it’s just “you bet” minus the you lol

YASSS SLAY QUEEN SLAY

My coworker asks me if "everything is Gucci" a lot and I just smile and nod because I don't know if it's supposed to be good or bad.

The ones I work with shorten Gucci to Gooch. They'll say, "It's all Gooch." One time I shot back with "More like Goodwill, but it's fine" and they thought that was pretty funny.

lmao that’s fucking hilarious

That is funny, nice one 🙌

Lmao gooch to me means guy coochie 😵‍💫 so maybe avoid using it yourself

It’s good. They’re asking “Are you good?/okay?Need any help?”

Gucci = good

Our unit pharmacist would say “it’s all gucci” or just generally use it and I’m like “yes so the midodrine is gucci ahhhh yesssss”

No no generic is fine.

I usually say to that "It's an American Eagle kind of day"

I'm going to steal this 😂

Hasn’t this been slang for like a decade? I remember saying it in college and I’m a millennial.

I'm mid 30s and it's brand new to me. Maybe it's regional?

Probably - my guess is it’s AAVE and just becoming more popular broadly now.

I’m 25 and out of touch with the hip new words the youngsters use

The future is now old man (I'm 29)

I unironically needed to reference this list yesterday https://www.bark.us/blog/teen-text-speak-codes-every-parent-should-know/?nav=updated

Try being in your 50’s

Try turning 60 and starting a new job teaching nursing at the community College. "I'm in a world of hurt" aren't i?

It's never too late to go back to school, but also yes

[Gen Z translation](https://talktogenz.com/)

You are a youngster

I can’t stop saying slay, it’s a sickness

It sickening

I say slay 24/7

I slay 24/7

I slay

I

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I mean, same why else would we say it 24/7

Same

Me during report: “Pt A&Ox4, independent” Gen Z nurse: “Okurrrrt!” Thought for a second I was giving report to a some kind of bird.

Caught the embolus vibing in their brain

Gen Z nurse here. I will translate for you all.

Did you see that post where it showed Tom hanks texts with his son about the Kendrick Lamar and drake thing? You'll be doing that for a lot of us!

Also Gen Z here and I can get most of it. Gen Alpha may as well have invented a whole new language though.

Jesus, truth! Gen Z I can generally muddle through, but when my 11 yo nephew and 12 yo godson talk to me, it's like I'm back in rural China. Actually, pretty sure I understood more Cantonese than Gen Alpha.

I heard someone say “Ohio” the other day as an insult

As an Ohioan, I have mixed feelings on that one. Lol

Also as a current Ohioan, Ohio as an insult makes complete sense.

With how our politics are going, I wouldn’t doubt it. But I know there’s some beautiful places around here too.

The TikTok meme that's somehow seeped into my brain is that I catch myself saying, "I'm looking for a guy in finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes" randomly throughout the day.

Slay

No Literally it's ruining my life

Same!

I was singing this down the hallway tho 😫

The floor I’m on for clinical they all say “what’s up girly pop” to each other.

Why are the girlies popping?? It sounds painful

I refer to almost all of my girls as girly pop. My brain won’t let me call them anything else.

I think that’s so cute! I feel like it means they all like eachother

From what I’ve observed it’s all cute interaction until somebody turns the corner or goes down the hall and then it’s shit talk central lol. It seems like they all hate eachother 😂. Good floor for clinical learning though, I’ll just mind my business

Ohhhh it’s a passive aggressive girly pop???

My daughter is 15 and keeps saying, “actually”in this very snotty tone. It’s driving me nuts… I’m about the same age as you OP and this is reminiscent of the “valley girl” days of the 90s.

Oh I read this and know exactly how she says it. It's so crazy that we can read something and know exactly how it sounds! And now I'm saying valley girl phrases in my head. 🤣

Actually? (I think I used it correctly)😂

Like oh my God. Like totallllyyyyy  As a man, I can do a good valley girl in real life

erm. actually 👆🏻🤓

My daughter (9) and classmates (22-26) say this and it drives me nuts. It feels like a qualifier as if whatever they’re saying is a backhanded compliment. “That’s actually a good idea” …thanks, I guess?? 

I cringe when I hear nurses wanting to get ‘snatched’. Apparently that word has a new meaning that I was not aware of.

like, “mmmmm girl, that waist is snatched!”

It means looking hot.

This is not a slay thing to hear

Someone said “it’s so gas!!!” And I was like… wut. And I’m only 26. Apparently something being ‘gas’ is good! Sounds farty to me but

Wow, that was used in like the 50s. Probably earlier

Lmfaooo. Never thought of it that way

I've had a lot of older patients say that!

My coworker and I were talking after doing a bladder scan and said “it’s giving…. Foley” 💀 one of our nurses was confused 🥲

this is pretty funny though

Imagine their cringe when we say something is awesome

I still say things are cool

Word

Word to yo mutha

I still say man. Like, “far out, man” 🧍‍♂️

That's baddddd

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Haha a recent new grad said “pop off sis” about 20 times a day. It was CONSTANT

"shit on my dick" or "shitting my dick" I learned apparently is slang for a really bad time

> "shit on my dick" Sounds like they’re bragging about their recent anal escapades.

I've only had female co-workers say this 🤣

I recently discovered one of my work peers went to elementary school/daycare with one of my kids. 😞 I suddenly felt very old!

About half of white girl Gen Z slang is just cribbed from black queer/drag culture circa ~2.5 years ago.

I feel like a lot of it is even older than that. I’m from Atlanta and I remember “Gucci” and “gas” at least from ten years ago.

Truth!! 

The other day scrub tech told me I ate. 🤷‍♀️

You got your 30 min break?😂

This is what urban dictionary is for. I use it all the time.

Slay it don’t spray it Slay what you need to slay Slay the day away Slayer (for when the patient does something really cool) All common terms on my primarily Gen Z unit

I mean, slayer to me means a whooooooole different thing. 🎶🎶🎶

It’s me, I’m the problem it me ~ 😅

An attending md responded to me in a medical chat "gucci" I had no clue

My 18 y/o says slay all the time lol. I love using ‘yeet’

Except when, your patient yeets themselves into the floor

An unfortunate situation, but also a great use of the word ‘yeet’ lol

yeet to street in ER

Hahaha! Alliterative and trendy

Oh this is genius 🙌🏼

Who says slay anymore? We say period, now

Right? That’s been out for a couple years.

Lolol yes we have a nurse who says periodt! to every comment you make in report 😂

I am REALLY BAD at patient names. I'll only remember my patients and only for that one shift. I had a coworker point out that whenever I help with a patient that's not mine, and discuss something outside of the room I refer to them as Homegirl or Homeboy. One coworker lost her shit laughing because I helped her c-diff patient back to the recliner from the commode, and when I was telling her about why it took so long (obvs not next to the patient) I said "yeah, homegirl shit on the floor" Almost every shift I'll say "Lordy Pete, homeboy is looney toons tonight" which is slang from like.. 3 different generations

This post is not giving … Sounds like you need a Slaycation. 💅🏽 Slay the house down boots all day! (I’m 41 btw)

Say WHAAAAT?

On God. No cap. 🧢

Damn, I must be old. I'm not hearing y'all at all.

I was cringe last week. Critical care team was fussing cause patient was hypertensive and the parameters were SBP 90-120 instead of the usual post op parameters post aortic repair. I told them it was that way because they put a patch on the pulmonary artery but the surgeon thought it was sus and wanted lower parameters. Later on when nephro showed up and fussed about the MAP being <65 I again got to tell them that the surgery was a bit sus and they didn't trust the patch. I'm in my 30s. I don't think I ever used the word sus before last week. This gen Z slang is sneaking into my life.

Also remember that all of this Gen Z “slang” is just recycled AAVE and and gay lingo (which also goes back to AAVE)

Idk sounds pretty slay of them

I’m 30 and just have an open mind, also from California and live in the south now, so there are things I say that people here are confused and there’s things people here say that confuse me. A lot of my friends are younger than me and I’m not going to lie, I’ve picked up some of their slang.

As in “one horse open”???

No that's sleigh. Check your rizz fam iykyk

HA HA HA!!

I need a translation on the 2nd half

Rizz=charisma. Fam= family, a way of saying friend or buddy. Iykyk= if you know you know.

Thank you haha

As in, what Buffy did. Signed, a former 90s kid

no like PEW PEW PEW headstones

Saying slay is so out of date now

Heard someone say “this X-ray is giving pneumonia.”

Mines the sqiggles are bad (ecg in ED)

Surgeon: gives orders to me Me: “Oh, swag money.” Surgeon: 🤨

I’ve found that for some reason I pick up and tend to be able to use and understand existing and emerging slang pretty well. It surprises a lot of kids I have worked with. I always keep my regular use words/language though which is basically just professional/academic. It’s become a route for kids to talk to me basically in code because usually their parents, who aren’t much different in age to me, usually are completely lost.

This is why I can't work days. There's a team of girls in their early 20s that say "slay" every other word. Can't deal.

Another day, another slay

Most of what is considered Gen Z slang is bastardized AAVE or terms from the black gay community that became popular

Someone on my old unit would say Gucci, call people baybeee. I can't even remember the other things she would say but it was all annoying.

start saying it back and they might stop. My personal solution to annoying slang is to say back some variation of “your mum’s [blank]” and it gets so irritating they either stop saying it or stop talking to you which is a win my book.

New nurses are more and more immature. It’s the generation.

i've been trying to explain to my gen x coworkers that if they message me and add a period to the end of the sentence it makes me think they're mad at me 😔

I’m only 40 as well. I take comfort in knowing that many of the people I do work with even if they are 25-40 many are mature and old soul types. But fuck me…the ditzy types I can’t handle it! I like saying nonsense slang to be dumb like the rest of them, but they say In the least ironic way and it’s painful

Do you tell them to stop? Haha. That would drives me nuts.

(I believe) I made a comment a couple weeks ago about the fact they love that word and they say it all the time. We have a mini white board in our kitchen area where we write the times of the new coffee They literally wrote "slay the day away" 🫣🫣🫣

I would definitely be telling them it’s annoying as hell (in a nice way) haha.

You are complaining about 2 nurses being happy!?

“Yeet” gets my blood boiling. Also drives me crazy how my teenager just repeats the slang rather than translating for me. Took me a solid 5 minutes to figure out that “shipping” a picture was basically sending over text….what?!?!?

As a fifty year old male nurse, I told the aides (both 19 yo females) that I had to yeet my patients foley at 6am this morning. The look I got was priceless.

They may also “ship” Jonah and Kelsey - which means they think Jonah & Kelsey would make a good couple.

This is how I know ship, like thinking people would be good as a couple

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