Nurses Relations
Published Mar 25, 2013
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julz68
467 Posts
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!
Student Mom to Three
207 Posts
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.
Best_Name_Ever
95 Posts
The one that drives me crazy....
mELK instead of mILK
havehope
366 Posts
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. :-)
blackvans1234
375 Posts
Okay, nobody said this one yet?
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
wannabecnl
341 Posts
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."
kat7464
69 Posts
Coudamin (for Coumadin) and, my personal favorite, the Urinologist.
Despareux
938 Posts
"Prolly" for probably.
"Suh-em" for something.
"Impordan" for important.
"Buh-en" for button.
Just a few that make me cringe.
Okay, nobody said this one yet?Myocardial InfractionGrrr. 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.
girlmeetsworld
9 Posts
Sontimeter for centimeter. I also cringe every time someone says prostrate.
Dazglue, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN
380 Posts
I had a teacher in nursing school that constantly pronounced vomiting as "vomicking".
KCMnurse, BSN, MSN, RN
1 Article; 283 Posts
I work with direct care staff that frequently apply "tropicals" to the skin. Instead of topicals.