Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

[ixchel]

Car-dee-ya-zem.

It's car-di-zem. Or dil-ti-ya-zem.

Cardiazem isn't a real thing.

Can I get an amen?!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Alnitak7 said:

It's off the subject but anyone being told they're getting an "injection in the fanny" should run.  Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a shot in the flesh of the hip and not in the butt.   I don't know why they tell people this. Neither do I know why patients announce this like they're proud of it.    https://www.physio-pedia.com/Sciatic_Nerve_Injury#:~:text=Injection palsy can begin suddenly,trained staff or unqualified staff.

 

You may want to look up what the word means in British slang... it is not the buttocks or the hip and I'd run if someone told me I was getting a shot there!

[Royalq]

The amount of nurses that can't pronounce antibiotics is mind boggling. Especially stuff we give almost daily. 
ceftriaxone 

ceftazidime

ertapenum 

just slow down and break the word down. It's embarrassing to see them stumble over such a common med.

otherwise butchering rather simple patient last names LOL. Drives me nuts. If it's anything beyond Johnson, Simpson, Brown or Greene these nurses are damn near short circuiting trying to say a last name LOL. 

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

PacoUSA said:

I know a nurse that does that, it's definitely a regional thing. Pecahn or peecan, LOL 

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Had a patient keep asking for a peecan one Thanksgiving.  Physician brought him a slice of pecan pie from the nurse's potluck.  What the patient WANTED was a urinal.

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

Royalq said:

The amount of nurses that can't pronounce antibiotics is mind boggling. Especially stuff we give almost daily. 
ceftriaxone 

ceftazidime

ertapenum 

just slow down and break the word down. It's embarrassing to see them stumble over such a common med.

 

Lots of these when we went from no longer using commercial brand names to using the name of the molecule only. Oh for the days of Zophren! Several colleagues sitll can't get their tongues around Ondansetron (you'll hear Onstaneron).

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

DavidFR said:

Lots of these when we went from no longer using commercial brand names to using the name of the molecule only. Oh for the days of Zophren! Several colleagues sitll can't get their tongues around Ondansetron (you'll hear Onstaneron).

And I still can't spell! d'Oh.

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

Rose_Queen said:

You may want to look up what the word means in British slang... it is not the buttocks or the hip and I'd run if someone told me I was getting a shot there!

I'm a kiwi, Some of the english girls use fanny  but its not in the glutes

And ditto if someone says they are going to jab you there, run while you still can

Alnitak7 said:

It's off the subject but anyone being told they're getting an "injection in the fanny" should run.  Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a shot in the flesh of the hip and not in the butt.   I don't know why they tell people this. Neither do I know why patients announce this like they're proud of it.    https://www.physio-pedia.com/Sciatic_Nerve_Injury#:~:text=Injection palsy can begin suddenly,trained staff or unqualified staff.

 

In the fanny is in the vagina.