Grammar errors at the workplace, just for fun :)

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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?

OK, Toradol is the correct spelling- yet I see certain docs ALWAYS order "toredol" it makes me crazy!! Just write 'ketorolac' LOL......

Did you mean Ketolorac? ;):flowersfo

steph

This is school rather than work related, but my professor said he "had bigger fries to fish" during his lecture.

This is school rather than work related, but my professor said he "had bigger fries to fish" during his lecture.

Our family twists those kinds of things on purpose to be funny. And we incorporate our kids' scrambled words into our family conversation too.

"Mac oni and thees" . . . ."Ba-sketti" . . . "Picture - skew" . . . etc.

steph

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
your - a possessive pronoun.

your brains. your shirt. your idea.

you're - contraction for 'you are'.

you're so intelligent. you're pulling my leg. you're not understanding me.

their- another possessive pronoun of they.

i appreciate their input. i want to hear their ideas. their shoes are too small.

they're - contraction for 'they are'.

they're driving me nuts. they're going to be late. they're wrong and we're (we are) right.

there - adverb meaning at that place.

do you really want to go there? i will be right there. i will be there soon.

what other words are you confused by?

leslie

I get the contractions and your/you're, even though I probably misuse that one here from not proofreading and just typing in a hurry.

Many people have tried to help me with the ones I slip up on with no luck. I am getting better with the Their/there, ironically on those little quizes on it I always get 100%. Anyway, maybe some of us are beyond help. I really don't get it, their has never been anything in my life that has given me as much grief as some spelling and grammar.

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Our hubbies have GOT to be related!! :D-

Maybe, LOL he is terrible, then one time he was trying to be frisky and some how thought it would be ok to say "oh honey I am gonna make you squeal like a pig" :stone :stone

He didn't understand why I smacked him after that (no I was not fat when he said it) he honestly though he was being sexy. I love him, but man it can be embarrassing sometimes when we are out :p

Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

A new grad is oriented. Not orienatated. Makes me nuts.

i get the contractions and your/you're, even though i probably misuse that one here from not proofreading and just typing in a hurry.

many people have tried to help me with the ones i slip up on with no luck. i am getting better with the their/there, ironically on those little quizes on it i always get 100%. anyway, maybe some of us are beyond help. i really don't get it, their has never been anything in my life that has given me as much grief as some spelling and grammar.

the way i remembered it as a kid was their pertained to people. there was directional.

steph

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
The way I remembered it as a kid was THEIR pertained to people. THERE was directional.

steph

So did I use it wrong there?? GRRRRR lol I am asking seriously, I know a lot of times it's pretty black and white but there are sometimes I sit there totally unsure.

Like "there are sometimes" that I just wrote doesn't seem right to me any way.

I don't get what my problem is, it's very frustrating. I bet it frustrates or annoys me, more than it does everyone else.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

i'm just thinking about some of the charting i've read. for example, there was the little old lady who had a "bowel full of oatmeal" for breakfast, then requested an enema because she was "bowl obsessed."

"the patient was advised to loose weight" and "restraints losened as patient has not been pulling on lines."

and then there's report: "i would of changed that dressing, but i got too busy with facebook." (and facebook in the workplace is another pet peeve!)

Specializes in Psychiatric.

Not work-related, but today I had my kitten spayed, and on the discharge instructions was printed the following sentence: "Please call our office if you notice a fowl-smelling discharge coming from Dory's incision."

I imagined a drainage smelling faintly of fried chicken, and laughed my butt off at the counter until the receptionist asked me what was so funny and I had to point it out to her.:D

Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.

There's also "axe" instead of "ask", and my favorate, "prostrate", instead of "prostate".

Specializes in LTC, med-surg.

My favorite is by far: COPD Exasperation

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