Learn To Say It Correctly!!

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Doesn't it just drive you insane when someone tells you that Mr. Smith's O2 STAT is 96%?

It's O2 SAT people! Sat, short for saturation. I even hear respiratory therapists saying this. I am sooooo tempted to say something next time, but I know it's just petty, so I needed to vent here. Thank you.

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eyknough said:
My favorite one to pick on is when a nurse reports that a patient has a "UA".... Uh, you mean UTI, which was diagnosed using a UA?

Thank you for reminding me - I hate it when people handover that "Mr Jones came in for a stroke/chest infection etc." Really? So he was fine, and decided to change all that - "please can I have a R) MCA territory infarct. Oh, you can only manage L) temporal lobe - yeah, okay, I'll have one of those instead."

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I have people say urinary track infection. we don't have tracks in our bodies!

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eyknough said:
What a great thread! I've had a couple moments when I ask myself what school these people go to. lol

My favorite one to pick on is when a nurse reports that a patient has a "UA".... Uh, you mean UTI, which was diagnosed using a UA?

I had a nurse tell me that a patient was on the BM watch list because they hadn't had a BM in 3 days. I said "But she's not eating!" To which she responded, well she's on TPN so she should be pooping something.

Really, people? Really?! We are hooking that TPN to a PICC line, not a feeding tube...

Sontimeters really gets under my skin, too.

It is my understanding they still have a BM even when on TPN. It's not much and won't be the consistency of normal stools but your GI system is still going. That is what we were told anyway.

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RoobieRNBSN said:
I have people say urinary track infection. we don't have tracks in our bodies!

I know it is crazy how often I hear that.

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Did I mention the educator at my NICU who said we should wrap a baby in "surround wrap"? I had to let her know: It's SARAN wrap.

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Probably just a local thing here in the rural parts of NC, but I have heard several people say onion as "ong-yun"... It makes my teeth ache. :eek:

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OK, this is minor--- just heard this week on the Food Network.... expresso is the American version (aka not correct- LOL) for espresso :) I'm just glad I don't like coffee :D:yawn:

I can't stand the inappropriate use of adjectives. "Patient X is nauseous"....Really??? That's her usual state? OR, is she nauseated??

"Patient Y can walk quick"....well, good for him- but it's 'quickly'....

"How do you feel?" answer- "good" (NO- that is a statement of the quality of something like 'bad'- not a feeling - badly would be correct also)....it's "well" (I know it sounds stuffy, but it's correct !!) :uhoh3:

Also- "me and her had went to the store" (well, obviously you must have been skipping your English class"....

Some stuff seems to be regional--- until watching some of the Real Housewives of NYC (real what???) and heard "I've been knowing him for 15 years"...... Hmmm.... I've known some people for fifteen years..... didn't know I could put past and present in the same verb phrase..... But I keep hearing it :D

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xtxrn said:
OK, this is minor--- just heard this week on the Food Network.... expresso is the American version (aka not correct- LOL) for espresso ? I'm just glad I don't like coffee :D:yawn:

I can't stand the inappropriate use of adjectives. "Patient X is nauseous"....Really??? That's her usual state? OR, is she nauseated??

"Patient Y can walk quick"....well, good for him- but it's 'quickly'....

"How do you feel?" answer- "good" (NO- that is a statement of the quality of something like 'bad'- not a feeling - badly would be correct also)....it's "well" (I know it sounds stuffy, but it's correct !!) :uhoh3:

Also- "me and her had went to the store" (well, obviously you must have been skipping your English class"....

Some stuff seems to be regional--- until watching some of the Real Housewives of NYC (real what???) and heard "I've been knowing him for 15 years"...... Hmmm.... I've known some people for fifteen years..... didn't know I could put past and present in the same verb phrase..... But I keep hearing it :D

OOOHHH, you just struck a nerve with me...I absolutely can not stand "me and him did anything"...:eek::eek:

I think every teenager in America uses this today...and I am on board with all of the others...

Has anyone told James Brown that he doesn't really "Feel Good"...but ...." I Feel Well, na na nananannan..I new that I would...now...It doesn't really go.....:rolleyes: Bummer!

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diva rn said:
OOOHHH, you just struck a nerve with me...I absolutely can not stand "me and him did anything"...:eek::eek:

I think every teenager in America uses this today...and I am on board with all of the others...

Has anyone told James Brown that he doesn't really "Feel Good"...but ...." I Feel Well, na na nananannan..I new that I would...now...It doesn't really go.....:rolleyes: Bummer!

I seem to remember some discussion on the well vs good.....that well is not always correct....that it means that if you are feeling something such as fabric, you are doing a good job of feeling it...rather than the state of your being which might well be good.......lol

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morte said:
I seem to remember some discussion on the well vs good.....that well is not always correct....that it means that if you are feeling something such as fabric, you are doing a good job of feeling it...rather than the state of your being which might well be good.......lol

? Who's on first?????

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I keeep on mispronouncing Metoprolol...how do I say it?

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xtxrn said:

? Who's on first??

? thank you!

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