[stillpressingon]

Was on the phone with a nurse today getting a pt's med list and she said one of the meds the pt was on was "MET-rol-pol"...Uh...Metoprolol?? "Yeah, okay." Oh brother!

So what have you heard meds called - by MEDICAL personnel...who theoretically should know better?

[TazziRN]

Ker-A-to-lac instead of ke-TAR-o-lac

[babynurselsa]

Or the ever present fenergran or fenergrun for phenergan

[SaderNurse05]

fen OY tin, instead of phenytoin
and cross my heart, a message about a Billy Reuben (bilirubin). I kid you not.
Last but not least, a critical pH- the nurse asked me how to spell pH. i said little p, big H.

[scattycarrot]

To be fair, I am terrible at pronouncing drug names. Terrible! I am not stupid (and I know thats not what you were implying !!!) but I have this mental block. I see the word, I say the word in my head....and it still comes out all wrong !! Oh well!!

[Pepper The Cat]

Originally Posted by scattycarrot

To be fair, I am terrible at pronouncing drug names. Terrible! I am not stupid (and I know thats not what you were implying !!!) but I have this mental block. I see the word, I say the word in my head....and it still comes out all wrong !! Oh well!!

Oh me too - I have had to spell drugs to the doctors because I have managled them so badly. And heaven help me if my pt has Fibromyalgia, because I cannot pronouce that!

[stillpressingon]

Originally Posted by SaderNurse05

fen OY tin, instead of phenytoin
and cross my heart, a message about a Billy Reuben (bilirubin). I kid you not.
Last but not least, a critical pH- the nurse asked me how to spell pH. i said little p, big H.

Originally Posted by scattycarrot

To be fair, I am terrible at pronouncing drug names. Terrible! I am not stupid (and I know thats not what you were implying !!!) but I have this mental block. I see the word, I say the word in my head....and it still comes out all wrong !! Oh well!!

I think that's why the Metoprolol struck me as so funny - for the longest time I pronounced it METRO-pro-lol! Never had a problem with Hydrochlorothyazide (sp? ), though, go figure!

[AliRae]

Originally Posted by Pepper The Cat

And heaven help me if my pt has Fibromyalgia, because I cannot pronouce that!

I, for the life of me, cannot pronounce the word "anesthetist." Since one of our nurses just left to go to CRNA school, I'm called on more frequently to try, and I have failed every single time. I've resorted to just saying the acronym, and looking at people like they're silly if they don't know what it stands for. I can't think of any other way! =)

[nurturing_angel]

LOL! I can't say anesthetist either. I always feel so embarrassed when it happens but my co-workers are used to my problem with it now and know what I am trying to say!

[CRNI-ICU20]

I suffer from LYS-DEX-IA....
My tang gets all tungled up....and oh well, it's just ugly sometimes....
Ya know that "look alike/sound alike" list that the pharmacy is always alerting us about....like LUNTESTA and NUELESTA....etc???
I think drug names are just another sinister plot.....
I also have a question:
Why is it that nurses are required to dot every i and cross every t, and make sure their notes are legible.....but DOCTORS can slop their pens all over a chart so that it resembles something akin to a cross between artwork by a chimpanzee and a four year old on a sugar high, and somehow THAT'S OKAY???
I guess different initials after your name entitles you to sloppiness privilege.
ugh.