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.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

flustrated? you're kidding,right? lol

It is "flusterated" here . . .

steph

[ImASuckyCMA87]

Wait, guys. I still get affect and effect wrong! Help me out...

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

Affect is an Action word (A for action, something you do)

Effect is a noun (thing).

ie. You affect something (verb), or your actions have an effect (verb).

[RNmom08]

My person favorite is AMMonia instead of PNEUmonia. Makes me giggle.

[ImASuckyCMA87]

Okk... I think I get it. But just to be sure... *speaks into the microphone* Can you use it in a sentence?

[WestTXnurse]

I have another... We had a new orientee on our floor, and she liked to say she was being orientated. It's ORIENTED!:chuckle

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

ONce had an old lady ask me what her 'hot' surgeon's name was. I said "what??" Which one?

She says,, "YOU KNOW!!! My HOT Surgeon!!"

Apparently she was from the north and was talking about her heart surgeon. lol Imagine what I was thinking.

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

.....let alone trust their spelling of medical words.... :)

(Just heard "carotid 'enderectomy.'")

There was a doc I worked with for years in ICU, he would spell the word 'now'.. like this---> "know" EVERYTIME!!! He was foreign, from the middle east and was a bit of a grouch and had a history of yelling at nurses. SO, I never corrected him. Apparently no one else every did either!!! He did this for years, I left, he probably is still doing it!! lol

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Long time ago I read a non-fiction book about disabled kids and the mom of one of them told the author she got a "hecterectomy".

steph

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Another irritation is sloppy pronunciation. Uh-magine. Uh-specially. Ex-specially. Flustrated. I could go on, but I'm giving myself a headache.

Lord, God, don't come down where I live. You'd have a spasm, sure as the world.

I have arthritis and a herniated disc in my back (yes, at 28), and I got a twinge as i was getting up from my stool the other day, and one of my older patients made the observation,

"You got a little hitch in yer gitalong".

I was raised talking this way, and wherever I go that is not in the South, people look at me like I'm from another planet. A preceptor of mine once said if I got much past Kentucky, I better take a translator along!

Oh and if you think my English is funny, wait till you hear me lapse off into Spanish!

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

Okk... I think I get it. But just to be sure... *speaks into the microphone* Can you use it in a sentence?

The common uses are used this way--

The effect of beans is gaseous.

Beans will affect your intestines.

However, there are these meanings of affect and effect used this way--

The patient came in stating she has depression, and indeed she has a flat affect. (The term affect here is used a lot in psych.)

Eating beans will effect change in your bowel habits.

(I am on a beans kick tonight, I guess.)

[azxyrn]

My favorite is when the staff tells me that the patient needs her pain pills, you know the one with grey hair, in a wheel chair, she has pictures of her family on the bed side stand. - Thanks, that narrows it down to 20 or so

Or when your looking at the vital sign sheet and the temperature/pulse/respirations have been switched incorrectly - thanks that's gonna take some charting to explain!

My ultimate favorite is charting and I look at the previous entry, you know the one that says the incision on "patients left hip from s/p ORIF C.D.I." When the patient actually has diagnosed/all other documentation about a s/p arthroplasty of right knee!