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"PT" means Physical Therapist. If you cannot bring yourself to type out "patient", the correct abbreviation is "pt".

It's LOSE your license, not "loose" your license. I've seen this one so often I'm starting to type "loose" myself.

"Needless to say" means it is so obvious that you don't even need to point it out. Why do people persist on using this when it is neither obvious or even remotely likely?

Why is "NETY" even still a thing?

I see this one documented all the time "floor matt down and next to bed". It's floor mat. I always want to say, so you put Matt on the floor!

This one made me laugh. I had the image of a Matt on the floor waiting for someone to fall on him. Will he catch them or be squished?

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Pet peeve- poor grammar or spelling in a fax to a physician. I've seen them so bad, doc circled the phrase and wrote "what?" Sometimes I feel like people try to over "professionalize" their communications, and it ends up sounding like a medical soap opera script.

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.
I hate people using passed instead of past. "He past by the house" vs "He passed by the house". There is no way anyone can "past by" anything.

I just had to comment on this one, because I hadn't even noticed until tonight that a sign at work notes that only kitchen personnel can go 'PASSED' a yellow line. Uh-huh...

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So I guess it is incorrect when someone says "I am going to school to get my Rn".

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"6 AM in the morning". Really?!! Is that to avoid confusion with 6 AM in the evening?! :banghead:

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Specializes in Med Surg/PCU.

Someone recently updated the labels in our nutrition room. The saltine crackers were right next to the "chicken broff". :arghh:

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Someone recently updated the labels in our nutrition room. The saltine crackers were right next to the "chicken broff". :arghh:

I wouldn't let that go unchallenged. ;)

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So I guess it is incorrect when someone says "I am going to school to get myRn".

maybe not if the person is going to go to the school to retrieve the RN that they employ as a personal assistant lol!

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.
"6 AM in the morning". Really?!! Is that to avoid confusion with 6 AM in the evening?! :banghead:

Ha ha! That is hilarious.

Here's another one I've seen often on here: someone asking for 'advise'. I have to say the same thing I said about 'then' vs. 'than' - listen to how you say it out loud! Think ICE, ice-ice-baby. You're asking for advICE - a thing. If someone gives you advICE, they're adVISing you.

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My nursing instructor would go ballistic if she heard "nurses training." She'd say: Dogs are trained. Nurses are educated. (Calm down, Kris!)

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These kind's of grammar mistake's literally make me want too loose my mind. Irregardless, I could care less about silly excuse's like autocorrect, much less bad education. These to thing's just ain't my problem. I am a professional women and as such I should of been properly orientated on Englandish language and grammar y'all *mumble* *grunt* LOL ROFL #noexcuse's

*dry heaves*

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