Grammar errors at the workplace, just for fun :)

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

So, it's bad enough when people make obvious grammar/usage flaws in places like allnurses, blogs, etc. What I find both more entertaining and somewhat depressing is when I come across it at work. Our unit director is awful about homonyms, and it get embarrassing sometimes, when I wonder who else might notice her slip ups (i.e., someone who is not a lowly floor nurse).

My favorites that I've come across recently:

"Check at nurse's station before entering room"

"Unit Counsel"

And the one that I could barely restrain myself from asking her if it was a purposeful pun:

A binder with the label "Opportunity's for Learning"

So, anyone have any others that they have come across specifically in the workplace, for all the world to see?

Specializes in i.v cert., ltc, hospital, dialysis.

how about..." could you be more pacific?"

how about..." could you be more pacific?"

Yes, I could be more pacific if I didn't have to work with all the wrong spelling, wrong word usage, and wrong grammar. :yeah:

Call with patholology report

Sergery

(this was crossed out, and initialed in favor of... )

Surgry

:icon_roll

Specializes in ED.

One of the nurses that I work with always says "poriforated" instead of "perforated". Example: I need to get this pt ready for surgery, because he has a poriforated bowel."

Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.

NOT my shining moment, but I got the giggles at work the other day when a co-worker charted "Pt easily aroused. Husband at bedside."

Come on, people....it's "Pt easily roused." as in easily awakened from sleep.

Specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.

read a note the other day where the pt's step daughter-in-law was referred to as STD as in"pt's STD requests...",must be a pretty tough infection if it's making requests

awokened. Woke up. Awoke. These drive me nuts. How hard is it to say something like:

The patient was awakened. I awakened from a nap.

Of course, I spell checked this posting twice :typing

How 'bout the English-speaking PA student who called it a "seth-ta-scope!"

Specializes in onc, M/S, hospice, nursing informatics.

How about "her bottom was exfoliated." Um, is it nice and smooth or is it red and irritated (like I was by then)?

Or, how about "he was emancipated" (for emaciated).

Geesch!

:D

Specializes in Emergency/ Critical Care.

Then there's the always famous "oxygen stats"

My favorites that I've come across recently:

"Check at nurse's station before entering room"

"Unit Counsel"

ok, i give.

what's wrong with statement #1?

and should blurb #2 be "unit council"?

leslie

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