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.

I worked with a nurse that use to say "luv knocks" for lovenox....How the heck she got that is beyond me!

Love/nox (silent e). Like love stinks. Love knocks, yeah yeah.

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Specializes in intensive care major medical centers.

I knew fellow nurses that pronounce Tylenol (tynol)

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......like Musslemans apple sauce.......

I'm very sorry for this, morte, but I have to admit that reading these words caused me to choke on my tea. It also reminded me that I haven't had applesauce in a long time, and Musselman's is good stuff. I think I need to go to bed!

Back to our originally scheduled topic.

"STAT" instead of "SAT" drives me up the wall. I had to restrain myself during an RRT when my very helpful, awesome tech repeatedly stated, "she's STATing at 69%," then "she's STATing at 74%" and so on...even in the middle of an urgent situation, I cannot stand it!

Also, I'm convinced that there are eight million different ways to butcher the word "Dilaudid." ("Di-LAUT-in" being most popular in my neck of the woods).

I know both of those have already been mentioned. So has "diaBEETus" but I'm going to mention it again. My grandfather was the greatest man I ever knew, but he pronounced it like that and it drove me crazy! And the oatmeal man on TV has pretty much made that word a drinking game...

Naomi Grace RN

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I am so glad that somebody mentioned "a lot". Alot is not a word. Allot is a word, but means something very different than a lot.

than/then really bugs me too..

Oh, no! I say "a lot" a lot! :eek:

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

My husband got oxycodone for post-surgical pain. He still pronounces it oxy-condone.

My mother has colon cancer, and can't pronounce any of her drugs. The list includes "F5U" and "oxy-po-lan-tin."

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If I hear one more person say cousint instead of COUSIN......:barf02:

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Specializes in Surgery, Tele, OB, Peds,ED-True Float RN.

One of our surgeons says "2 BE 2" instead of "2 BY 2". Which apparently is a British pronunciation (or so I've been told), but he's not British! Drives me nuts 'cause I know he does stupid **** like that to get some attention....

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Love/nox (silent e). Like love stinks. Love knocks, yeah yeah.

love /hurts:coollook:

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

How do y'all say angina.

I have always heard it pronounced like lady parts. Our pharm teacher says it like emphasis on the ANGina sort of like how you would say angela

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Specializes in Medical.

an-gi-na (vs va-gyna)

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How do y'all say angina.

I have always heard it pronounced like lady parts. Our pharm teacher says it like emphasis on the ANGina sort of like how you would say angela

my vote is like lady parts
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Specializes in Mother-Baby, Rehab, Hospice, Memory Care.

Maybe this is a Southern country accent, but a nurse at work was saying she had to go hang some "Urn" for her pt. I asked what that was and was like do you mean IRON? Yes!

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