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There is just somethings that really bother me, specifically mispronunciation of words. The specific abbreviation that realllllly grinds my gears is when a nurse or CNA/PCT says " O2 STATS" O2 "stat"uration?

Anyone have anything else that people misspell or mispronounce that gets them going??

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Umbilicus. I heard someone say um-bil-LIKE-us the other day and I almost started to giggle. But it was a PA who said it, so I'm assuming that is also a correct pronunciation... I have just never heard it before. :)

I had an instructor in nursing school that said it like that. She was Canadian, and pronounced a lot of things in ways I had never heard. One of my personal favorites was "Skeleeetal" rather than "skeletal". I couldn't help but giggle either.

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I assume you have pahked the cah in hahvard yahd, and sawr it drive away? lol

Yes! Except I saw it, we don't add r's we just pretend they aren't there sometimes ;-)

Oh and I live in SC now, so you can imagine how well my accent goes over.......

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I have 2 coworkers that make the "H" silent in words like human. ....sounds like you-men... Drives me crazy lol

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LOL, I was totally gonna put on my preceptor pants and talk about how some might think "pericardial" would make more sense, along with an anatomy lesson, and why it would be unwise to do a pericardial thump. Glad I cut it off where I did! :\

I say sis-toe-lee and die-ass-toe-lee as well, think that is correct, but I have heard it pronounced the other way many times as well.

Where do you buy preceptor pants? I need a pair! :)

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Some of the CNAs I give report to, when I say "This patient is on iso for MRSA", I have seen them write "Mersa" or even "Merced". Really? It's one of the most common infections in the hospital. How can you not know what the abbreviation is, even if you don't know what it stands for - not a clue!

Some nurses (and others) I work with say "Marza." I understand we are kinda making up a pronunciation when when say "Mersa" for MRSA, but Marza isn't even close in my mind.

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"Me and my sister", "me and another nurse".

Aargh!!

When did basic grammar go out the door? My sister and I are not happy when we hear this...

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A similar one that is starting to become a bit of a pet peeve for me is using "I" as an object....for example "Our friend gave the recipe to Dave and I."

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Ideal or idear for idea.

I also used to transcribe for a doctor who said sontimeter instead of centimeter and it drove me nuts!

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Parenteral. People will say "parental." A parental injection! No don't think so![/quote']

Sometimes I WISH I could give a parental injection...

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Some nurses (and others) I work with say "Marza." I understand we are kinda making up a pronunciation when when say "Mersa" for MRSA, but Marza isn't even close in my mind.

Lol, my closest thing to a pronunciation pet peeve is when people say "mersa" instead of M.R.S.A. No one I work with does, the first time I heard it was on an episode of "House" and it made me grit my teeth, then I saw it on an American news story, and then everywhere else! So I guess I'm on the losing side here, but it does bug me for some reason. I also don't like "hiv" instead of H.I.V ( but find "Heiny" instead of H1N1 hilarious, so go figure).

I get my preceptor pants the same place as my big girl, scary, nice and sarcastic pants.... I wear many pants!

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Good 'ol MRSA. I can remember when it was the 'hot topic' in athletic training during my undergrad education and the football players came to us with EVERY little pimple asking if they had the Mr. Sa disease (we had the old style AstroTurf, so yeah, even I was skeeved out about what a swab of that would reveal). Some of the guys were joking about the name, others, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually thought it was called Mr. Sa. At least they were on the lookout. I'd rather be on pimple watch than deal with an infection.

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I read a chart that very accurately described a resident's "pick" line instead of PICC. (Sigh)

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Okay, nobody said this one yet?

Myocardial Infraction

Grrr. I go to school with a girl that has some sort of dyslexia / reading / speaking problems and she butchers so many words....

I think she's going to fail

:-O

Lol, I'm tired and misread that as,"I think she's going to hell." It seemed a bit extreme. :D

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