Do yourself and others a favor and...

[Mesomorph]

...don't ever say "diagnosises" as the plural of diagnosis. I have heard two of my peers use "diagnosises" this week and it really makes them sound like idiots when they're very intelligent. If we as nurses want to be perceived as professionals instead of bumbling ignorami, we need to speak like professionals.

The plural of diagnosis is diagnoses pronounced "Dye-ag-nohs-ease", so please, use it. Diagnosises is not a word and never had been.

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[GeauxNursing]

Amen!!

[RN BSN 2009]

lol... thx for the heads up

[socalpca]

...don't ever say "diagnosises" as the plural of diagnosis. I have heard two of my peers use "diagnosises" this week and it really makes them sound like idiots when they're very intelligent. If we as nurses want to be perceived as professionals instead of bumbling ignorami, we need to speak like professionals.

The plural of diagnosis is diagnoses pronounced "Dye-ag-nohs-ease", so please, use it. Diagnosises is not a word and never had been.

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Wow. Too much time on your hands.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Wow. Too much time on your hands.

Actually, I think that good pronunciation is important for nurses to master. We look like idiots in front of other educated professionals if we're mispronouncing the words of the English language.

[socalpca]

Actually, I think that good pronunciation is important for nurses to master. We look like idiots in front of other educated professionals if we're mispronouncing the words of the English language.

I understand that and I know the person is right.

[prmenrs, RN]

I once heard an RN attempt to say "epidemiology" and it came out sounding like a portion of the male reproductive system. Not good.

[suzy253, RN]

Actually, I think that good pronunciation is important for nurses to master. We look like idiots in front of other educated professionals if we're mispronouncing the words of the English language.

I totally agree with you there!

[summersent]

...don't ever say "diagnosises" as the plural of diagnosis. I have heard two of my peers use "diagnosises" this week and it really makes them sound like idiots when they're very intelligent. If we as nurses want to be perceived as professionals instead of bumbling ignorami, we need to speak like professionals.

The plural of diagnosis is diagnoses pronounced "Dye-ag-nohs-ease", so please, use it. Diagnosises is not a word and never had been.

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Well if you expect others to be perfect and pronounce everything right I would hope that you are perfect and that you pronounce every word right yourself.

[Achoo!, LPN]

We get a giggle out of it when our instructors can't pronounce things.

Once we were studying cardiac, and the teacher was talking about something " pulsitiling" instead of pulsating. We thought about making up a book of words created by instuctor X for out pinning ceremony for a laugh.

[IrishIzCPNP, MSN, RN, APRN, NP]

We have an instructor that says...

Rose-sa-c-ah

It's Rosacea.

There was a few other things that she pronounced in an odd way but I can't remember them

And for the record...I think this post was very appropriate and I'm not sure why somebody would take a dig about the poster being perfect. The poster was simply pointing something out...and I bet somebody is better off since this was pointed out.

[Shenanigans, RN]

Haha! I heard a med student use that word once adn they got blasted by their lecturer!