Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
allnurses

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Discussion

Grammar errors at the workplace, just for fun :)

So, it's bad enough when people make obvious grammar/usage flaws in places like allnurses, blogs, etc. What I find both more entertaining and somewhat depressing is when I come across it at work. Our unit director is awful about homonyms, and it get embarrassing sometimes, when I wonder who else might notice her slip ups (i.e., someone who is not a lowly floor nurse).

My favorites that I've come across recently:

"Check at nurse's station before entering room"

"Unit Counsel"

And the one that I could barely restrain myself from asking her if it was a purposeful pun:

A binder with the label "Opportunity's for Learning"

So, anyone have any others that they have come across specifically in the workplace, for all the world to see?

Featured Replies

how about..." could you be more pacific?"

how about..." could you be more pacific?"

Yes, I could be more pacific if I didn't have to work with all the wrong spelling, wrong word usage, and wrong grammar. :yeah:

Call with patholology report

Sergery

(this was crossed out, and initialed in favor of... )

Surgry

:icon_roll

One of the nurses that I work with always says "poriforated" instead of "perforated". Example: I need to get this pt ready for surgery, because he has a poriforated bowel."

NOT my shining moment, but I got the giggles at work the other day when a co-worker charted "Pt easily aroused. Husband at bedside."

Come on, people....it's "Pt easily roused." as in easily awakened from sleep.

read a note the other day where the pt's step daughter-in-law was referred to as STD as in"pt's STD requests...",must be a pretty tough infection if it's making requests

awokened. Woke up. Awoke. These drive me nuts. How hard is it to say something like:

The patient was awakened. I awakened from a nap.

Of course, I spell checked this posting twice :typing

How 'bout the English-speaking PA student who called it a "seth-ta-scope!"

How about "her bottom was exfoliated." Um, is it nice and smooth or is it red and irritated (like I was by then)?

Or, how about "he was emancipated" (for emaciated).

Geesch!

:D

Then there's the always famous "oxygen stats"

My favorites that I've come across recently:

"Check at nurse's station before entering room"

"Unit Counsel"

ok, i give.

what's wrong with statement #1?

and should blurb #2 be "unit council"?

leslie

When I hear a coworker giving instructions to a patient say: "it's all wrote down" it makes my skin crawl!!

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
Go to topic listing

Currently Reading 0

  • No registered users viewing this page.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications
Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.