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.

Specializes in Emergency, outpatient.

from one police officer to another....

(waiting the 60 seconds to repost.....)

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Specializes in OR, GI Lab, ER.

Darn . . . I hate when I do that and why didn't my spell checker git it!

LOL, Thanks Sandy!

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Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.
What is the correct pronunciation of coccyx?

cock kix

cock sic

I've heard it both ways.

I say it

cock six

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Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.
Saying "I'm stuffed" in the UK would get you very funny looks

Trust me, people in the UK will just think that you've had too much to eat

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Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.
I'm a cna and i know i do and i will say and do things wrong but maybe some of these people thats how they were told or thats how they thought they heard it said. either way if these people aren't told in a respectful way there saying or doing something wrong how will they ever learn to do it right? we look up to ya ll we know you know way more than us and i for one wouldn't mind if you told me hay your saying it wrong its post to be.... try and remember back when you first started didn't you get anything wrong? and how did you learn? you were told by the nurses that had been one for a lot longer than you and in a nice way i hope if not shame on them and remember how they made you feel and tell the ones around you there doing it wrong like you would of wanted to be told when you first began. we cant learn the right way if no one is willing to tell us and just laugh are talk about it and us behind our backs. I'm good at what i do BUT I'm not no where perfect at what i do. and i don't think these people would mind being told hay your Saying it wrong its like this.... in this line of work we really cant afford to say one word wrong it could get someone hurt or kill. when I'm around new cna and i see something they should know i tell them hay you know when i was in school they said to..... did your school say anything about it.... Ive show a few girls something they didn't know and wasn't told in there school and a few ways of doing things they wasn't show in school. and they were grateful for it to and nurses have done the same for me. all I'm saying is you have the years of knowledge teach with it. it will make you feel good when they smile and say thank you. and if they dont well at less you tried to help and cant no one ask for more than that.:nuke:

This is a spoof? Or am I out of line?

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Specializes in urology, pediatrics, med-surg.
PreOpNurse said:

m-e-t-o-p-r-o-l-o-l

Notice no "r" after the "t". It is, therefore, meh-TOE-pro-LOL (capitals for emphasis), NOT meh-troh-po-LOL like I hear it nearly every day. Also it is not meadow-PRO-LOL.

OK, see, this is why we go crazy with pronunciations! I was prescribed this particular drug and always pronounced it meh-TOE-pro-LOL. My doctor "corrected" me that it should be meto-PRO-LOL. If she can't get it right, how am I supposed to? Guess I'll start calling drug companies and ask, "so just how DO you pronounce your drug name?"

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Specializes in Critical Care, Dialysis, Home Health.

How about "Pacific" instead of "specific"? Like can you be more pacific? Pacifically what are you asking?

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The patient is stating at 90% drives me nuts as well. Then there are nurses that say cardiazem instead of cardizem and want to axe a question. And then they tell you that the patient is orientated.

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I have more important things to worry about than people mispronouncing words. Some drug names are so bizarre it it natural to mispronounce them. Many of our docs are foreign so I can understand why they have problems. The English language has many strange rules, and as was mentioned before a lot depends on what part of the country you grew up in. How about aluminium for aluminum? I have heard that before. I just disregard it and move on, who cares? As long as we are communicating and everyone is on the same page.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

You know I am constantly saying the wrong thing a lot of the times it is not because I dont know the correct pronunciation but I get my 'tongue twisted' and end up saying it wrong and then laughing my head off and everybody around me laughs too.

To add to this senario I also have a really strong British accent and we say and pronounce things differently too.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

We have a nurse that always says pt MAE- Moves all eXCREmities. I cant stand this. And SCraws with said patients drinks please.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

I love some expressions that pts use they make me laugh rather than annoy me

sugar diabetes

walking pneumonia

Of course you have to understand that if you are the UK then

Theatre means the OR

Pen torch means pen light

Giving set means IV tubing

Pyrexia means Febrile

and on and on

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