If you really want to be correct, you will use nauseated, not nauseous, when describing the state of being afflicted with nausea. Nauseous, on the other hand, is really supposed to be used to describe something or someone that causes nausea.
We nurses can do a lot to turn around the deplorable trend amongst the common populace to use these words incorrectly. We deal with nauseated people on a daily basis. We can gently educate the public by being role models for proper usage!
(nauseous-correct usage): The smell of rotten eggs is nauseous.
(nauseated-correct usage): The smell of rotten eggs makes me nauseated.
Specializes in Acute care, Community Med, SANE, ASC.
Regarding lay and lie:
I finally learned this one with the following tidbit. Lay means to put or place. Lie means to rest or recline. In general (I think), living things like people and animals lie while inanimate objects lay.
This thread is cracking me up because I keep reading all the other posts and saying, "YESSSS!"
Most of these mistakes don't bother me. I see them charted in nurses notes, doctors notes, even occasionally in some of my favorite published books. I make them myself sometimes.
What really bothers me are things like this, "Pt don't feel real good today, lungs wet, not moved bowels yet, work with pt"
That was charted in a patients chart by a nurse on my floor.
Actually in English Composition class for grammar. Just had college English.
A Noun is a word or group of words that name a person, place or thing such as a man or woman, hospital or clinic, IV Pole or syringe.
A verb is a word or phrase that is used to express an action or state of being such as Present - "Mary Works", Past - "Mary Worked", and Future - "Mary will work"
Adverb is a word, phrase or clause that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb such as "The student scored QUITE badly on the test".
Adjective is a word or phrase or clause that modifies a noun such as "The Biology Book" an modifies a pronoun such as "He is Nice"
Just refreshed for the HESI exam.
So Impact is a verb. Being it is a state of being. Not a noun. It is not a person, place of thing.
No one is sure how these changes will impact our relations with other countries.
No one could have survived such an impact
This portion of HESI will be easy.
So many words that bother me and seen quite a few here. This is funny.
Something that gnaws at my innards ... the addition of "ation" at the end of more and more words that are OK normal without the 'ation'. Like 'coloration' - the word is COLOR. Not coloration. I have no idea where this change originated/evolved.
I'm caught off guard & coming up blank for more 'ation' words but they are out there.
Lay is passive, lie is active, so, if the patient was laid in bed because they couldn't lie, i suppose they are laying in bed. however, if they put themselves to bed than they are lying in bed.....hmmm about as clear as mud...but fun
Oh no...there is clearly something I'm not getting about the English language.
Love this topic. Having fun on here seeing all the words that people use that just sounds funny.
Pererforated being said instead of perforated.
This is a much needed break from the negative school posts from people who never attended schools they give opinions on. Thanks for the good start of my day! :-)
Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.
I'm getting confuse-ed here...I've red and re-red so much i'm not sure which is witch or hoo is whom, and will continue my nap...this much edumacation is too much!
As a nurse that probably is not using proper grammar at all times please forgive me.... I interact with patient who relay information to me.... I am then expected to translate this to pertinent information to pass on to a practitioner who can give orders. I might not have had a break, or maybe I have to use the restroom. So as I am typing everything a patient states please forgive the fact I leave: Patient states "I am nauseous". I think we all know what the patient means..
newohiorn, BSN, RN, EMT-P
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Regarding lay and lie:
I finally learned this one with the following tidbit. Lay means to put or place. Lie means to rest or recline. In general (I think), living things like people and animals lie while inanimate objects lay.
This thread is cracking me up because I keep reading all the other posts and saying, "YESSSS!"