Pet Peeve

[BookwormRN]

Please bear with me, but I really need to say this! My pet peeve is when people say to me, "Oh, you got your RN degree." Or "So and so is going for their RN."

Hello, people! When you go to school, you earn a diploma (not so common anymore) or a degree (such as an ADN, BSN, MSN, etc). Becoming a Registered Nurse involves taking the NCLEX exam, passing and becoming licensed by the state. It is THEN that you BECOME a Registered Nurse.

Ok, thanks for letting me vent. DH teases me about this peeve all the time, but I can't help it. Just because someone earns their ADN does not mean that they have permission to practice as a Registered Nurse.

I feel much better now!

[CHATSDALE]

my pet peeves are genderized occupations ie lady cop, male nurse etc

and hyphened nationalities..i use to say i had an french-american poodle but nobody thought it was funny

[TazziRN, RN]

and hyphened nationalities

What's wrong with this? I say I'm Amer-Asian.

[Natkat, BSN, MSN, RN]

I have one that bugs me, but it is so petty that I don't say anything.

I work in dialysis and we have to document how much weight the patient lost for example 3 kilograms. Just about everyone in the clinic documents this as "-3". The patient did not lose -3 kilograms; they lost 3 kilos. Written -3 would mean they gained 3 kilos.

Another one I see all the time is when someone writes 3 cents as 0.3 with the cent sign after at. That means 3/10 cents, not 3 cents. To write 3 cents as a decimal it would need a dollar sign, thus..........$.03.

[msdobson]

My pet peeve is talking about pet peeves.

[queenjean]

I have one that bugs me, but it is so petty that I don't say anything.

I work in dialysis and we have to document how much weight the patient lost for example 3 kilograms. Just about everyone in the clinic documents this as "-3". The patient did not lose -3 kilograms; they lost 3 kilos. Written -3 would mean they gained 3 kilos.

I must be having a complete brain fart; but what you are saying does not make any sense to me at all. If someone documents "-3kgs" then they lost 3 kgs. Or are they documenting "pt lost -3 kgs"? Yeah, okay, I had to "talk" this one out, I guess before I understood it!

J

[CuriousMe]

my pet peeves are genderized occupations ie lady cop, male nurse etc

and hyphened nationalities..i use to say i had an french-american poodle but nobody thought it was funny

Alright, I confess.....I laughed out loud at your french-american poodle :rotfl:

Very amusing!

Peace,

Cathie

[Amiejayrn]

"Sonimeters" It's centimeters.

That's my pet peeve.

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:yeahthat: I feel exactly the same! I hear it everytime I am at work and I still react to it.

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Here's mine: When people use possessives for degrees they haven't even started, like "I'm going to go get my RN." Some people say it like they're talking about picking up their dry cleaning for the week - like it's sitting there ready and waiting to be picked up any time.

I don't know why that bothers me. We do have much more critical things to stress over. :)

[TazziRN, RN]

But it's also sontimeters!

[piccman]

I agree with the sonimeter. Drives me nuts. And let's also not forget "orientated"

[TazziRN, RN]

Orientated is not a word. Sontimeter is.

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Orientated is not a word. Sontimeter is.

Dictionary.com (usually a surprisingly reliable reference) lists three sources that count orientated as a real word, but it doesn't come up with anything for sontimeter. (Admittedly though, orientated is probably more awkward and much less common than oriented - and many people do pronounce centimeter like you're spelling it.)