Instructors making up words *rant*

[mavnurse]

OK, just a little rant here. I know this is nursing, not English, but it bugs me so much when my instructors don't use proper words!! Every single one of them says "malnutritioned" instead of "malnourished," and the other day, one said "ethnicicity" instead of "ethnicity." The worst part is, students are starting to use these too!! There are tons and tons of misspellings on our notes as well. I know these are smart people, but I don't understand how they have masters' and doctorates and still can't use proper English. They even butcher medical terms and then wonder why doctors think they're stupid. Has anyone else run across this type of thing?

[HisHands, ASN, RN]

Woah, the mood in this post definitely shifted to the heavier side.... I'm sure that was not the OP's intention - I feel bad that this seems to have taken such a turn for the worse. I'm sure I'll probably get guff for saying this, but there are so many debates in these forums, isn't it possible to just vent and be a little goofy with each other without things becoming such a debate? Sorry, that's my mini-vent.

Anyway, i just have a question, from a newer student - my professor also interchanges "parenteral" for "parental". Is it supposed to be the same thing???

ooooh... my big beef - I've had TWO professors refer to homeostasis as homostaseis. Ok, say it with me "HO ME OH stasis" That one gets me.

Then there's the Digitoxin (try looking that one up in your Drug Handbook).

I think that secretly all of our professors go to the "allnursingprofessors.com" website and plot how they want to confuse us next.

[jakebrewster]

Parenteral - taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection.

Parental. you know - adjective - having to do with parents

Not the same word at all. And inexcusable that they be confused by college level instructors ostensibly trained in a medical profession. Easy to see how they could be confused by someone from another discipline - seeing parenteral perhaps for the first time.