Grammar errors at the workplace, just for fun :)

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

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?

[sm101]

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

[Vito Andolini]

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.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Call with patholology report

Sergery

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

Surgry

:icon_roll

[MissERN]

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."

[truern]

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.

[herecomestrouble]

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

[gatorgrad]

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

[gatorgrad]

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

[mom4josh]

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!

[SecondGenRN]

Then there's the always famous "oxygen stats"

[leslie :-D]

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