Learn To Say It Correctly!!

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Aug 30, 2009

Or maybe learning how to type and spell and use the correct grammer as in pleurals hummmmmmmm

Interesting! :smokin:

SpaceCoastRN · Aug 30, 2009

Not reading this whole thing, but the one that has been bugging me of late is Cardizem, people saying it Cardiazem. Just grates on the nerves. Adding that 'a' just sounds so very wrong.

egglady, LPN · Aug 31, 2009

I havent read the whole thread, so forgive me if its been asked- but, how the heck DOES one pronounce Metoprolol? Is it met-oh-prole-ol, or meh-top-rolol?? I have heard by docs several variations of it!!!

miss81, BSN, RN · Aug 31, 2009

Me-TOP-pro-lol here in my area... but I've heard the other pronunciations too

sethmctenn · Oct 17, 2009

I'm from the Appalachian mountains. We get some doozies.

I used to regularly get calls for Hummingbird LA instead of Humibid.

We have lots of local terms like "high blood" which means having too much blood volume not necessarily hypertension. Low blood usually means dizziness here. Thin blood doesn't mean a warfarin overdose, it means that someone is weak or frail (weak as water).

dannyc12 · Oct 17, 2009

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.

The instructors in our Nursing Program pointed this out loud and clear to us very early on. If a student uses "stat" for "SAT," especially at a clinical site, they will be reprimanded.

nrsman1 · Oct 17, 2009

I haven't heard anyone say "stat" instead of "sat" but...
My personal pet peeves:
"phernegan" or some other twisted form of "phenergan"
"Nucular" to which I respond "How do you spell that?". It's "nuclear" people!
"Scrip"...as in, "Lucky1RN, what do you think of this patient's rhythm scrip?" Uh...what's a scrip? Do you mean "strip"?
"Sontimeter"...as in "the patient's wound is 2 sontimeters wide". It's "centimeter". Do you say a gumball costs 1 sont? Nooooo.
Yeah, I'm a bit picky about language! I could go on and on. Expresso instead of espresso. Orientated instead of oriented. Prostrate instead of prostate. Ok...I'll shut up now.

I agree what the heck is a sontimeter,I hear this all the time

Not_A_Hat_Person, RN · Oct 17, 2009

A few days ago, during a med pass, I saw a Liberty Medical ad that did not start Wilford Brimley. As soon as I got home, I checked IMDB to make sure he was still alive. The man has been mispronouncing diabetes (it's not di-BEET-us) for decades.

talaxandra · Oct 17, 2009

It really threw me the first time I heard my US-raised A&P lecturer pronounce capillary - in Australia it is ca-pill-ary, so when he said cap-ill-ary I thought it was a structure new to me!

morte, LPN, LVN · Oct 17, 2009

I agree what the heck is a sontimeter,I hear this all the time

i think it is a french influenced pronounciation.....

tatara · Oct 17, 2009

I got a little self-conscious now;

how do you pronounce foramen ovale? frey-men o-va-ly?

Seretide Diskus (inhaler) Dis-kas or Dis-koos?

Oh I often hear many health providers, doctors even, say HIV virus. It should be just plain HIV, right?

Equipment with "s" (equipments) is wrong too Instead, say, pieces of equipment (as verified: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural)

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ryantherunner · Oct 17, 2009

I worked at a running specialty store where we fit for running and walking shoes. I once had a customer who had "placenta fascist" in their foot. How about plantar faciitis?