OMG Say it correctly!

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There is just somethings that really bother me, specifically mispronunciation of words. The specific abbreviation that realllllly grinds my gears is when a nurse or CNA/PCT says " O2 STATS" O2 "stat"uration?

Anyone have anything else that people misspell or mispronounce that gets them going??

:no:

My pet peeve is also when people don't write grammatically correct or use punctuation correctly. Also when they write in text style, like using "u" or "ur" on posts. Not just here, but anywhere. It makes it so hard for me to read! Maybe it's just me because I am older, in my 40s. Ha!

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I cannot stand "yers" instead of "yours"---my whole family is guilty of this! That is just lazy language.

Had a bio prof who referred to proteins as pro-tee-ins.

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The one that drives me crazy....

mELK instead of mILK

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I agree. However, in the defense of people who have said "med-surge," they may have gone to type "surg" and their auto correct changed in to "surge" (although my autocorrect just tried to change "surg" to "surf").

Yes, this happened to me when creating a thread once. I had no option but to put "med-surge" why I didn't write out medical-surgical, I do not know. :-)

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Myocardial Infraction

Grrr. I go to school with a girl that has some sort of dyslexia / reading / speaking problems and she butchers so many words....

I think she's going to fail

:-O

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Specializes in PACU, presurgical testing.

All of my nursing school faculty, including the clinical professor for maternal/child health (a CNM), pronounced it "um-bil-IKE-us", too, so I think that's correct. I can't bring myself to say it, though! :)

In my pre-nursing life I was a technical writer, so I'm a bit of a stickler about grammar and spelling, but what patients say doesn't bother me as long as we're communicating adequately. Regional accents don't get to me, either; I actually like them. It does bug me immensely when nurses or doctors pronounce things incorrectly, such as the aforementioned "oooopherectomy" or "nuke-yu-lar."

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Specializes in Hospice, home health, LTC.

Coudamin (for Coumadin) and, my personal favorite, the Urinologist.

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"Prolly" for probably.

"Suh-em" for something.

"Impordan" for important.

"Buh-en" for button.

Just a few that make me cringe.

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Myocardial Infraction

Grrr. I go to school with a girl that has some sort of dyslexia / reading / speaking problems and she butchers so many words....

I think she's going to fail

:-O

Haven't heard that one....but I have heard HARD attack.

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Sontimeter for centimeter. I also cringe every time someone says prostrate.

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I had a teacher in nursing school that constantly pronounced vomiting as "vomicking".

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I work with direct care staff that frequently apply "tropicals" to the skin. Instead of topicals.

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