Are You a Member of the allnurses.com Grammar Police?

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

Please give a shout out if you are a grammar or spelling cop!

My two biggest pet peeves on here:

(1) Definately

(2) HIPPA (I have been known to publicly reprimand the offenders!!)

There are others, but enough for now ... what are YOUR contributions? I know your out there (and YES I did that on purpose) ... :D

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Specializes in CVSICU, Cardiac Cath Lab.

Well, I'm just a lowly student, but....

Learn the difference between there, they're, and their!

Please!!!!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I have been known since 3rd grade as the Grammar Nazi. That said........I once followed a nurse who was the worst speller in the Free World. She spelled seizure as "seazur", and that was some of her better writing. However, if I'd been the patient HAVING one of those, I'd have wanted her taking care of me, because she was an awesome nurse who knew her stuff and cared as much about her patients as for them. That was when I learned to stop judging people less by how they communicate in writing and more by how they communicate in DOING. :)

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Specializes in ED.

Your so right. It drives me crazy that alot of people mispell so many words. If they would just use there spell check's to, it would definately help. Anyways, if people would just ask us for grammer advise noone would get on my nerves.

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Specializes in Psych.

I could retire TODAY if I had a dollar for every time I've read that someone is worried they might LOOSE their job or that they're trying to LOOSE weight. :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Grammar and spelling errors do bug me...but I prefer to keep my feelings to myself. IMO, there are more productive things that I can be doing than correcting typos on forum posts. Besides, I make typing mistakes on occasion as well, so I'm in no position to throw stones.

Mind you, it really grates on my nerves when I see spelling and grammar errors in actual documentation. You have no idea how many times I've read about patients admitted to detox for a "heroine" problem.

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
Your so right. It drives me crazy that alot of people mispell so many words. If they would just use there spell check's to, it would definately help. Anyways, if people would just ask us for grammer advise noone would get on my nerves.

Sorry, couldn't resist! MISSPELL :D

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

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Specializes in Psych.
Sorry, couldn't resist! MISSPELL :D

Jessy - The entire post upon which you remarked was tongue-in-cheek...intentionally loaded with grammatical and spelling errors. ;)

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
Jessy - The entire post upon which you remarked was tongue-in-cheek...intentionally loaded with grammatical and spelling errors. ;)

Yes, I did notice :D

What I meant, was the correcting poster usually throws in the word mispell and it is one of those words very often misspelled.

Aside from all the previous words mentioned, that is my pet peeve..........lol

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Specializes in Oncology.

Your/You're drives me nuts!

HIPPA also drives me nuts.

What drives me the most nuts, however, is a long continuous paragraph with no punctuation or capitalization. Sorry, if that's your post, I'm not reading it.

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Specializes in Oncology.
Sorry, couldn't resist! MISSPELL :D

That post had so many glaring grammatical and spelling errors that I'm guessing it was a joke.

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