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.

[freefalr]

What about blood pressure "cups", instead of cuff? Or, I have a better "ideal", not idea! The latter being said by staff. OMG!

oo! this reminded me of a patient who described having "rota-cup" surgery on his shoulder. thought it was cute and it just stuck in my head for some reason.

(dolcevita: i'm chicken! don't want to embarrass him and target myself. am worried he already gets my not-a-fan vibe. will you tell him for me? heehee )

[Jamesdotter]

I had an instructor who would tell us that protein or caffeine were pronounced as pro- te- in and caff- e- in, not pro-teen, or caff-een. ughhh

I always say them like that under my breath when I'm writing--it helps me spell them right. But out loud? Nope.

[Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN]

"Old timers" instead of "Alzheimers"

"KEE flex" instead of "Keflex"

"ancillary temp" instead of "axillary"

The people who add an "s" to words that are already plural. ex: "Menses" "Womenes"

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

If it were my boss, I'd take a red pen, circle the mistake, write the correct spelling in the margin, and put it in his mail box. I've done that before. Funny, they always KNOW that I'm the one.

[bigsick_littlesick]

I'm a pre nursing student currently working as a scheduler at a radiology company so we get a lot of irritating ones (sorry if these are repeats, there are SO many pages on this great thread!)

- Alt-heimer's or old-timers instead of alzheimer's (drives me nuts!)

- Carrot-id instead of carotid

- I have a co-worker who says on-o-cologists instead of oncologists!! what???

- graph surgery instead of graft surgery

- mammEOgram for mammogram

- metaformin instead of metformin

- pancre-ott-ic instead pancreatic

- amAlodipine instead of amlodipine

- pharNinx and larninx instead of pharynx and larynx

- when people confuse dysphagia and dysphasia

- bru-ITT instead of bru-ee (bruit)

- tickelid instead of tie-clid (ticlid)

- ossipital for occipital

- defibUlator for defibrillator

- dia-beet-us for diabetes

- prostRate for prostate

- warafin instead of warfarin

Wow, the list goes on!

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

What about the overuse of "utilize". It is like people are afraid to say "use". Very strange.

[resumecpr]

It's PhenerGAN not PhenergRan!! I've worked with MD's, and 10+years experienced RN's who say it the wrong way.

[talaxandra]

OctoGAM and IntraGAM, not GRAM!

[LeaRNed]

I had a unit manager that said pacifically instead of specifically. I am still perplexed as to how she became a manager. There are some drugs that have strange pronunciations so I don't usually fault someone for that, but come on, pacifically???

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

If it were my boss, I'd take a red pen, circle the mistake, write the correct spelling in the margin, and put it in his mail box. I've done that before. Funny, they always KNOW that I'm the one.

A little OT (but you expected that from me, if you know me at all ), but one night my friend and I were reviewing our schedules and became rather fed up with them. Our policy dictates that everyone is to work at least two Monday (or Sunday into Monday for midnights) and Friday (or Thursday into Friday) shifts per four week schedule, except for weekend staff. My friend was working 4/4 Sunday nights and 3/4 Thursday nights and I was working 4/4 Thursdays and 3/4 Sundays, but other people only worked one Sunday and one Friday, or something like that. (And no, we did not schedule ourselves that way ).

I brought out the typed scheduling policy for our floor and read every word. I discovered that, yes, I was right that the scheduling for that month was unfair. I also discovered a plethora of grammar errors. What did I do? I took a pen (can't remember if it was red) and corrected all of the grammar errors. It didn't fix the schedule, but it made a dork like me feel stellar. And I know they (as in my managers and the members of the scheduling committee) will know it was me if and when they ever read over the scheduling policy.

[SandraCVRN]

Or, I have a better "ideal", not idea! The latter being said by staff. OMG!

I was just getting ready to type this same thing. I have been pondering telling this person how this makes her sound but I don't know if others have noticed since be are here in Texas, LOL

[francesca22]

My bacteriology professor was a woman from the deep South. I knew from nothing about bacti, so had no idea that her description of the microscopes as 'oool immersion' [long 'o'], referred to their being 'oil' immersion 'scopes. In my class notes, I had been duly writing 'ole' until I finally made the connection: "Oh, I get it, you put a drop of oil on the slides...ergo, oil immersion." [slaps forehead].