Learn To Say It Correctly!!

[SheriLynnRN]

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.

[fontanel39]

I recently started working in a Urology clinic....my patients tell me they had prostrate cancer.

**ok so I read back one page and saw that someone else had put this one already.

So here's another... reading the computer charting of some of my (former) coworkers...we got monthly weights of patients, and when someone didn't want to be weighed they put that he didn't want his wait taken. Or wouldn't let them way him.

That always made me laugh....and "refused pari care".

[Atheos]

Umm.....no, it is not!

Now, bell peppers can be red, orange, green or yellow. I honestly don't know the correct term for them; I've always called them bell peppers. And they're a vegetable.

This is my other pet peeve.

There are vegetables, fruits and what are referred to as fruit-vegetables. Foods that fit both classes.

Green pepper, hot pepper, avocado, red pepper, cucumber, tomato and zuchini are all considered fruit-vegetables as they share properties of both fruits and vegetables.

[talaxandra]

I used to work with a nurse who mngled words - Panadeine Forte was "Pandaeine Foot", temaze was "temay." My favourite, though, was the Lingy version of spina bifida - "spifida bifida"

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

It alwaiys urks me when my friend's boyfriend says "oldtimers" instead of Alzheimers. Some things are just harder to stomach than others

[Atheos]

It alwaiys urks me when my friend's boyfriend says "oldtimers" instead of Alzheimers. Some things are just harder to stomach than others

Irks....

I am only teasing you. Misspelling vexes me to no end. Only, not on the internet. Only on paper!

[Effie, RN]

hippa instead of hipaa (see that one on an every day!)

as someone who has to teach about hipaa weekly, that one drives me nuts too. here's what's really crazy: there are a bunch of places (my dh dr.'s office is one) where they use a picture of a hippo to remind their staff of hipaa! suppose that might be a reason for confusion???

[Atheos]

as someone who has to teach about hipaa weekly, that one drives me nuts too. here's what's really crazy: there are a bunch of places (my dh dr.'s office is one) where they use a picture of a hippo to remind their staff of hipaa! suppose that might be a reason for confusion???

i always get it wrong. despite knowing what it stands for i always think of hippo myself when writing or saying it.

[dgenz0001]

I've always enjoyed hearing the different pronunciations of medical terminology. Whenever I've heard 'O2 stat' instead of '02 sat', I've always thought of the 'stat' as status rather than statistic so that it could still make sense.

[FlyingScot, RN]

My pet peeve is the almost constant butchering,by health care workers, of the term Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It is not pronounced "gill-ee-ann bar" it is "gee-ann bar-ay". If the general public wants to mess it up that's fine with me but geez...we should know better.

[truern]

Silly pet peeve of mine, but I cringe when I hear someone say, "I'm AN RN." "An" goes before words starting with a vowel, and "registered" most certainly does not.

I'm a RN...whew!! Told ya it was silly :)

[Atheos]

Silly pet peeve of mine, but I cringe when I hear someone say, "I'm AN RN." "An" goes before words starting with a vowel, and "registered" most certainly does not.

I'm a RN...whew!! Told ya it was silly :)

We actually had a thread on this.

It is proper and acceptable to use AN on soft consonants.

I'm an RN would be acceptable. There are several soft consonants like H and R. (RN - are enn as opposed to Registered - reh gi...) BTW - Soft consonants are those where the sound of the letter starts with a vowel sound as opposed to a consonant sound. Just like are in RN.

Much research went into that thread.

[truern]

We actually had a thread on this.

It is proper and acceptable to use AN on soft consonants.

I'm an RN would be acceptable. There are several soft consonants like H and R. (RN - are enn as opposed to Registered - reh gi...) BTW - Soft consonants are those where the sound of the letter starts with a vowel sound as opposed to a consonant sound. Just like are in RN.

Much research went into that thread.

You...you mean I need to research and read?!? Somebody hold me..sniff sniff.