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?!

[morte, LPN, LVN]

hmm I pronounce it that way, ?regional? what is the difference?

That one drives me crazy, too.

How about when staff say "Halter" monitor? It's Holter, for Pete's sake!

[morte, LPN, LVN]

I see that it doesn't follow English pronunciation rules... long "o" even without an "e" after the consonant, pron. like the O in holster. though up here in the NE, I have to say I haven't heard it said that way

hmm I pronounce it that way, ?regional? what is the difference?

[CelticGoddess, BSN, RN]

-Zyprexia for Zyprexa

-Rispairodal for Risperdal

-Diabetical for Diabetic (a nurse actually said diabetical and was serious)

-Lasik for Lasix

-Dilauda for Dilaudid

-Narco for Norco

I hear Narco for Norco all the time. Technically, it is a narc but it isn't Narco. (My husband constantly says Narco and he's a CT tech. Aaargh)

I recently cared for a patient with "asides". Not only did he call his condition asides (he kept asking, how did he get a sides) but his SBAR was sent up with diagnosis of "asides". I realize that ascites is a hard word but it was a nurse who typed it in!

[Christy1019, ASN, RN]

A coworker of mine was triaging someone the other day and when she asked about surgical history the pt said "well I had surgery for my camel toe"

The pt's sister then corrected her and said it was HAMMER toe surgery lol

[Christy1019, ASN, RN]

Another one, not a mispronunciation, actually not sure WHAT it was....

Had a MALE pt with a peritonsilar abscess that ended up nasally intubated due to swelling and went for a CT. The report read "lady partsL fluid noted in the DANGER SPACE". Umm... Well... Hmmm..

. That's interesting lmao

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Christy1019 said:

"well I had surgery for my camel toe"

I'm pretty sure I could not keep a straight face for that one. 

[bagladyrn, RN]

A coworker of mine was triaging someone the other day and when she asked about surgical history the pt said "well I had surgery for my camel toe"

The pt's sister then corrected her and said it was HAMMER toe surgery lol

I'm going to be a smart aleck again- there is a surgery that is sort of for "camel toe"-it's called a labial reduction . Things you learn working OB/GYN...

[jacksonvillelpn]

I don't know why, but it took me forever to say metoprolol instead of metoporol. I also call quetiapine "quiet time", but I do that on purpose.

[tejon, DNP, NP]

My sister had two very difficult pregnancies, suffering from hyperemesis that required multiple daily doses of Zofran and many trips to the ED for fluids.

She kept calling it hypernemesis. Over and over again. I guess all that nausea and vomiting could seem like a very perky enemy?

[roser13, ASN, RN]

A patient once told me that he was allergic to Amoxicillin. I asked him what his allergic reaction was:

"I got short of breath, broke out in a rash – your classic Aflack reaction."

I asked: Why do you take Pepcid every day?

"Because I have a hyena hernia."

I asked: Have you ever had surgery?

"Yes, I had surgery on my nose for a deviant septum."

I'm tellin ya, I could go on all day. Have been recording these things for years. My co-worker says she's going to write a book about them when she retires.

[anthonypurkey]

How many new nurses have documented that the wound was "pu*sy" instead of pus filled, or purulent drainage. Not the word I wanted to use,but the editor stars out the other word.

I did wright that one time in a note. Think GOD my manager seen it before I filled the note. They make fun of me till this day

[A&Ox6, MSN, RN]

Although we did have a good laugh over the "peritoneal craniotomy" and where the patient's head must be...

VP shunt?