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.

[NrsNicole]

So funny, we have a lot of respiratory issues in my family. They all say STATS. I have nicely corrected them but they still do it. Now to hear another health care provider say it....that is annoying.

[Wishinonastar, BSN]

I am going to start saying LEEEVOQUIN just to see if anyone corrects me.

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

I am going to start saying LEEEVOQUIN just to see if anyone corrects me.

haha me too!!

[Bill E. Rubin]

And can the world learn how to spell "definitely"?!

Amen to that peeve.... it's "definitely" not definately or definatly. A common message board scourge.

I'll add to that something that most americans say wrong.

I lay the book on the table.

I lie on the bed. I don't lay on the bed (well, perhaps, but that means something else entirely!)

Yesterday, I lay on the bed (lay the past tense of lie). Most people get this wrong.

[cherrybreeze, ADN, RN]

I find it more prudent to not laugh at doctors.

Heehee. The only doc I ever "laughed" at (and it wasn't actually laughing, it was smiley's included in a facebook message) was when I corrected his spelling of Vicodin.......he ALWAYS wrote "Vicodan" or "Vicodon" and it drove me NUTS every time I had to look at it. We "friended" each other on FB so I sent him a message and brought it up. Luckily he took it well, and spells it correctly now (he said in 20 years, no one has bothered ~or had the stones?~ to correct him! haha). He's one I get along with well, though, we did shots together at his birthday party. Most I wouldn't have the guts to correct their pronunciation or spelling.

[Wishinonastar, BSN]

Amen to that peeve.... it's "definitely" not definately or definatly. A common message board scourge.

I'll add to that something that most americans say wrong.

I lay the book on the table.

I lie on the bed. I don't lay on the bed (well, perhaps, but that means something else entirely!)

Yesterday, I lay on the bed (lay the past tense of lie). Most people get this wrong.

You for got to add I laid my book on the table yesterday. Lay, laid, laid.

And lain- I have lain on the bed before. Lie, lay, lain.

Of course who says lain these days?

Lie- active, Lay - passive as in getting laid! (Though that can be active at times).

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

Oh, and BTW, you were "accepted" into nursing school, not "excepted."

[CRBRNCPHT]

Try sitting through a pharmacology class where your instructor, instead of trying to learn the names of the drugs she is teaching you about, just says the first 3-4 letters of the drug name and just makes up the rest!

Example: "carbenzapime"...yes, that was supposed to be carbamazepine (generic Tegretol).

This is especially irritating when this woman gave me no points on an assignment (we had to come up with a post-MI drug regimen for a patient) because he was African American and I put him on and ACE inhibitor and "African Americans don't respond as well to ACE inhibitors." How many African American patients have you given ACE inhibitors too?!

She also gave one of my friends a zero on an assignment because "Clonopin" is not a drug. Well neither is "carbenzapime!" lady! Hypocritical much?

[LandDRN]

Hahaha! Love these! :)

Staff irritants:

1. phenergan = phergran

2. O2 Sats = O2 stats

3. prostate = prostrate

Patient/Family irritants (Education goes a long way! I don't mind those trying to learn. My pet peeves are the ones claiming they either have a medical background/are "nurses" ( as I had a housekeeper at another facility claim to be) or state they "know all this already because I watch Maternity Ward and A Baby Story" when trying to explain things to them.)

1. Induction= Inducement ( or Seducement as I had one soon-to-be-grandmother say OR "take the baby"......where are you taking it?)

2. Toxemia= Noxema ( pre-eclampsia/eclampsia please)

3. Meconium= Mecnim

4. Contractions= Contraptions

5.lady parts= "my **** down there" as I had a mother of 3 elequently tell me once

:chuckle

[superkyky]

not a pronouciation thing... but hate it when people say, "Is she painful?"

[SurroDoula]

My MIL calls a mammogram a mammEogram, lol

[talaxandra]

not a pronouciation thing... but hate it when people say, "Is she painful?"

I'm guessing this isn't what you mean, but we quite often have painful (inducing psychic pain in us) patients and family, so that doesn't sound too bad to me.