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 Hospice, Palliative Care, Gero, dementia.
I think the real reason they require citations for every little thing is because a general paranoia has descended upon our educational institutions, complete with a belief that EVERYONE is too lazy to have thoughts of their own, and if anything intelligent comes out of those thoughts then they must have STOLEN it from somewhere.

At least that was the feeling I got from my professors. : >

This thread is crazy!

If you want people to pay attention to your writing, you have to present your ideas in a logical manner and within context. Generally, in an academic setting the point is to synthesize and extrapolate from the pool of knowledge to either the specific situation you are describing, or to unite several strands of knowledge. It's not that you're not supposed to have original thought, but you're not an expert in the subject, or you wouldn't be in the class. Therefore, you have to show at least a familiarity with if not an understanding of the relevant literature. If it looks like you're making it up from whole cloth, where's the credibility?

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma.

I think this post has really, really gotten off topic and I think it is time to close this thread or get back to the topic at hand. The OP started this thread not for pronunciation problems but for people (nurses) using the wrong word entirely; like STAT for Sat.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Y'all are buzzing so far over my head I feel like looking for a vapor trail.

And it's been many a long year since I wrote anything but a well punctuated email or folded thank you note. I do like to write with a fountain pen if that adds any class to the act. LOL

Back to the nitty gritty OK?

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If you want people to pay attention to your writing, you have to present your ideas in a logical manner and within context. Generally, in an academic setting the point is to synthesize and extrapolate from the pool of knowledge to either the specific situation you are describing, or to unite several strands of knowledge. It's not that you're not supposed to have original thought, but you're not an expert in the subject, or you wouldn't be in the class. Therefore, you have to show at least a familiarity with if not an understanding of the relevant literature. If it looks like you're making it up from whole cloth, where's the credibility?

Very true, but the paranoia still exists, a result of convenient cut and paste research. I personally have no problem with citation. It shows that one has taken the time to explore the subject before forming an opinion. I learned back as an undergrad what was expected, and I learned to enjoy writing research papers.

Grad school was different, but I took several classes at other schools to transfer in and I think that I was particularly lucky to have found a program that encouraged original thought, because the other schools did not. It seems to be a result of the general culture of the particular school as to whether they emphasize scholarly research or creativity, at least in my experience.

Shall we move on?

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Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care, Gero, dementia.
Very true, but the paranoia still exists, a result of convenient cut and paste research. I personally have no problem with citation. It shows that one has taken the time to explore the subject before forming an opinion. I learned back as an undergrad what was expected, and I learned to enjoy writing research papers.

Grad school was different, but I took several classes at other schools to transfer in and I think that I was particularly lucky to have found a program that encouraged original thought, because the other schools did not. It seems to be a result of the general culture of the particular school as to whether they emphasize scholarly research or creativity, at least in my experience.

Shall we move on?

Humble apologies for dragging the thread off point. I'm afraid I just got some major buttons hit.

That said, I will still note that of the essences of communication is to bring the reader/listener along your train of thought -- one which is followed better if it involves logic and the correct usage and pronunciation of the chosen words.

There -- back on point, kind of?

Here's one that makes me crazy, although the utterer is my mom: she calls it "i-boo-pro-pin."

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

All the other OB nurses can join me on this one--"When can I have my epidermal?

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

My pet peeves with nurses and (mis)pronounciation:

metoprolol should be me TOE pro lol not met o PRO lol

spironolactone pronounced as "spiral lactone" (what?????)

Just my :twocents:!

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Specializes in Emergency/ Critical Care.
My pet peeves with nurses and (mis)pronounciation:

metoprolol should be me TOE pro lol not met o PRO lol

spironolactone pronounced as "spiral lactone" (what?????)

Just my :twocents:!

ok I always pronounced it meh-TOE-pro-lol

people I work with say it meh-TAW-prolol

glad its not just me

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Maybe the drug manufacturers should use the pronunciation spelling of their drugs to teach us how to say them correctly! I am not sure how, at least theoretically, there can be a correct way to pronounce drug names since they are made up and are not official words. The pronunciation then becomes correct only as according to the person who invented the name. Maybe if they showed us how they want us to say metoprolol or whatever, then we could be sure to get it right. If my name was Smith and I wanted you to pronounce it with a long I, I might spell it with a long vowel mark above the i. They could do this with the generic names, which are always tongue-twisters to say. What is with those long generic names anyway? Don't get me started.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
Maybe the drug manufacturers should use the pronunciation spelling of their drugs to teach us how to say them correctly! I am not sure how, at least theoretically, there can be a correct way to pronounce drug names since they are made up and are not official words. The pronunciation then becomes correct only as according to the person who invented the name. Maybe if they showed us how they want us to say metoprolol or whatever, then we could be sure to get it right. If my name was Smith and I wanted you to pronounce it with a long I, I might spell it with a long vowel mark above the i. They could do this with the generic names, which are always tongue-twisters to say. What is with those long generic names anyway? Don't get me started.

Actually Levaquin is shown with a long e on the packaging, yet interestingly, most nurses I work with pronounce it with a short e. Go figure! :lol2:

I use my Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses...it gives the pronounciation.

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Actually Levaquin is shown with a long e on the packaging, yet interestingly, most nurses I work with pronounce it with a short e. Go figure! :lol2:

I use my Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses...it gives the pronounciation.

Thats why for the most part I use the part of the drug name I can pronounce like "Tylenol, Coumadin, Lovenox, etc" LOLOLOL the patient usually doesn't know what the generic one is most of the time anyways--so if I use the one they know it makes them happy :)

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"Sontimeter"...as in "the patient's wound is 2 sontimeters wide". It's "centimeter". Do you say a gumball costs 1 sont? Nooooo.

Actually, I think that "sontimeter" is legit - at least in the medical world

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