oxygen sTaturations

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This is just a pet peeve rant post. But why do some people who should have a basic education on this call it "oxygen stats/ staturations". Drives me crazy. Ive seen people write it and say it. Its sat!!! Saturation!

Ok end rant.:banghead:

I hate to be the one to say this... it's suprapubic, all one word. Likewise, it's also postoperative and intra(anything). Thankyouverymuch. :)
GrnTea, I doubt very much that you actually hate to be the one to say that..... ;)
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Just heard this at the pharmacy....."can someone help me find the blood pressure cups". Hmmmm. I'd like to see one of those too.

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Ah.... busted. But sometimes it's as hard to teach things as it is to learn them. :)

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

Oh, geez...

Rotary Cup

Atenonol

Listen-pril

Simvastin

Torpul (Toprol)

Cur-doo (K-Dur)

High blood (pressure or sugar)

Low blood (anemia)

I could go on for days!

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As long as we're being linguistically nit picky, "au" technically means "to the" in French. It's a contraction of a+le. The French word for "with" is "avec". For some reason in French the preposition "to" is often used where in English we would use "with". For example, "the man with a hat" is "l'homme au chapeau" and not "l'homme avec un chapeau". Languages are funny that way. It's really kind of interesting.

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Personally, if I can string six words together into a coherent sentence at 0600 I feel I've accomplished something.

Also, whenever I hear the phrase "hot water heater", I always ask, why?

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The one that really drives me crazy is "Oldtimers Disease"

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Specializes in LTC, Acute care.

How about 'testes' instead of tests, as in "how many testes is my father going to get today?" I'm always tempted to say "two, same as he came in with.";)

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Specializes in ICU.
How about 'testes' instead of tests as in "how many testes is my father going to get today?" I'm always tempted to say "two, same as he came in with.";)[/quote']

Hahahaha!

ICU unit...ATM machine is the worst bc they put it on signs everywhere!

"verygross" veins and "oldtimers" disease actually make sense! Lol

And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "dilitation" actually what they say in England?

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Specializes in hospice and palliative care.

I literally laughed out loud with that one!!! LOL:laugh:

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I was doing narc counts with two different nurses recently who both said fentalyn instead of fentanyl.

I also work with a nurse who always says "continent" when speaking of long-acting narcs, ie, hydromorph continent instead of Hydromorph Contin.

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Specializes in hospice and palliative care.
How about 'testes' instead of tests, as in "how many testes is my father going to get today?" I'm always tempted to say "two, same as he came in with.";)

I literally LOL'd with this one!!!!:D

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