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Oct 08, 2004 11:14 PM

A new pet peeve of mine


Maybe I am just INCREDIBLY anal retentive.... I absolutely can't stand it when people misspell drug names. I just want to jump out of my skin every time I see that!! I just can't believe how common it is. Don't people look things up anymore? I can't imagine that things like Risperdal would be spelled wrong SOOOO frequently, if people were really looking things up before giving a drug they are not familiar with.
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No. 1
from eak16
Old Oct 08, 2004, 11:20 PM

I can sympathize. It also amuses me though that these are completely MADE UP words. The only reason Risperdal is spelled that way is because some PR person at a drug company thought it looked good.
I remember having to ask how Dilaudid was spelled becuase there are sooo many different ways of spelling it that would result in the same pronounciation:
Deladed
Dilaeuded
Dilloudid
Dilauded
Dialouded
Dalauded
Daladid
Dalaudad
Dealadid
ok, I'm bored tonight...
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No. 2
from TraumaQueen
Old Oct 08, 2004, 11:28 PM

One of our ding dong residents always spells pepcid as pepsid makes me think he's ordering some new brand of pepsi.
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No. 3
from hypnotic_nurse
Old Oct 08, 2004, 11:30 PM

It's a very good point to be anal on...misspelling a drug name could lead to giving the wrong drug.
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No. 4
from eak16
Old Oct 09, 2004, 12:04 AM

last week I got an order for 250 CC's of docusate. Its also good to be anal about the unit of measure
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No. 5
from PHTLS
Old Oct 23, 2004, 04:17 AM

You'll hate me then.
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No. 6
from PHTLS
Old Oct 23, 2004, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by hypnotic_nurse
It's a very good point to be anal on...misspelling a drug name could lead to giving the wrong drug.
Yeah. I'm going to give "250 cc's" of DSS.
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No. 7
from CapeCodMermaid
Old Oct 23, 2004, 07:12 AM

I worked with a woman who was an excellent nurse, but there were some words she just couldn't spell. She would write about the demented residents that they had "cognitive deficates". After reading that and almost peeing in my pants from laughing so hard, I asked her if that was the new term for "s**t for brains"!!!

I really do hate misspelled words and bad grammar and I don't think it's particularly anal to be that way.
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No. 8
from aimeee
Old Oct 23, 2004, 07:29 AM

Nothing wrong with being anal about spelling drug names correctly. The difference of a letter or two can mean two completely different drugs, such as cerebex and celebrex. I've often wondered how many drug errors are due to bad handwriting as well.
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No. 9
from Angie O'Plasty, RN
Old Oct 23, 2004, 07:49 AM

Oh boy, one of my pet peeves too.

Phenergen is NOT phenergren

Agitated is NOT aggitated

It's Demerol, NOT Demeral

Morphine, NOT Morephine

TYLENOL, not Tyelnol

This could drive me nuts if I let it, but I have other fish to fry.
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