Do you ever correct people about medical stuff?

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    Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele/Onc.

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goodgrief

114 Posts

Specializes in Gas, ICU, ACLS, PALS, BLS.

One time when I was working in the CTICU, my pt had severe pulmonary HTN. The ACNP was rounding on my pt and asked if the pt was still on nitrous oxide. I asked her, "Really? He's on nitrous? Was he up laughing all night?" She looked at me as if I were the idiot and continued rounding on the rest of the patients on the unit, likely never realizing that she was the one who didn't know the difference between nitrous oxide (a general anesthetic) and nitric oxide (vasodilator). Glad I was only floating to that unit and never had to work with that NP again

BrandonLPN, LPN

3,358 Posts

I hate it when TV shows and movies have the doctors/nurses shock the coding patient when they're flatlining. You don't shock someone in asystole. Horrible, horrible hack writing.

AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN

2 Articles; 1,291 Posts

Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

DH refuses to watch anything medical related with me. I critique the whole thing.

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
I correct fellow nurses and doctors quite a bit when they are talking about something grossly outlandish that they know nothing about have not kept up with current practice, or are just plain wrong possibly leading to patient harm. I will have a conversation when someone (layperson) has false information and remember, it is not what you say but HOW you say it. If they think that I am a know-it-all, too bad. If they do not believe me, they can go look it up.[/quote']

^Agreed...pretty much my method :)..it is HOW you say it. However if one feels that they are going to come off as a know-it-all, then intervene for danger, IMHO...

Do-over, ASN, RN

1,085 Posts

Specializes in CICU.
Too funny, let me tell you after I had a car accident I had nerve damage and problems with restless legs and in desperation I tried the bar of soap in the bed and it didnt work LOL

There has got to be SOMETHING to it - some swear by it =).

For the sake of my future research, what kind of soap did you use?

RNJill

135 Posts

Specializes in Med-Surg, Transplant.

Pretty much never...sometimes I'll pass along little educational tidbits to immediate family members when there is something that totally relates to them, but the rest of the time it's either 1) something that I don't really care about or, rarely 2) something soooo wrong/annoying that I know I'd be rude if I did say something.

Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.

I didn't correct a friend who told me she had trigeminal neuralgia in her hip. It about killed me not to tell her that was anatomically impossible.

canned_bread

351 Posts

Specializes in Cath lab, acute, community.

I used to, but I am scared about being known as a "know it all" so now I don't! Unless it has to do with antibiotic misuse, then I pipe up!

canned_bread

351 Posts

Specializes in Cath lab, acute, community.
I'm from Canada, and we say de-bride, not de-breed.

In Australia, we say "de-bride" too.

gothichipchick

23 Posts

Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

My husband keeps using "diaretic" when my kids have a bout of diarrhea. "He's been diaretic all day, hon. What should we do?" I do not have the heart to tel him to stop using the damn term when he has spent all day changing diapers of a "diaretic" toddler. :roflmao:

SleeepyRN

1,076 Posts

Not always is the gist adequately conveyed if people are using the wrong terms for certain illnesses. Years ago, AIDS was called the "gay cancer," an offensive term for a disease that is not the same as actual cancer.
You can justify it all you want. Your initial post was incredulous. No excuse. Besides that post, I've seen you on other threads causing problems. Your words portray your views on this site. Thats all we have to go by to judge you. That's why we have to choose our words CAREFULLY. You can't say something like that and not expect negative responses

SleeepyRN

1,076 Posts

C'mon guys, lets get back to having fun! Prostrate really annoys me! Also, my grandpa thinks that every lab test requires fasting, and nobody will convince him otherwise! Haha
Exactly, this is a fun thread :) I just couldn't take that ONE poster anymore and HAD to speak up. But let the fun continue :)
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