azgirl

Angle and Brain are my most hated names for new babies.

I know how AngelfireRN feels. When I moved from Kentucky to California as a child I would say hitch in my getalong and trying to come down with a cold. No end to the torment I got saying things I had heard all my life.

I worked for an assisted living facility that had the caregivers watch a movie about the 5 rights and gave them certificates to pass meds.

I got the worst flu I have ever had right after getting a flu shot. Would never do that again.

Years ago when they were called stewardesses there was a requirement to be a nurse.

Another one I hear a lot is "I could care less" instead of I could't care less.

I had to leave a game room tonight because someone had the name "yousnoozeyouloose"

I had that name error in a book I read recently. Really threw me off as I had to look back in the previous chapter to see just who they were talking about.

I had always heard it was the mispronunciation of Acadian that made Cajun.

When I went to school often was pronounced ofen. Now newsreaders and any tv show has offTen. It used to drive me nuts and I checked the dictionary and now that is correct. Now I have a question. When someone comes to join me at a table in lunchroom and says "Do you mind if I join you?" and I answer "Not at all" they look as if they don't know what to do. I hear them ask that in movies and people answer "Yes" and then allow them to come in or sit down. So they are saying yes they do mind but that seems to be the answer to this now. Did this change too?

Orientated instead of oriented. Prostrate instead of prostate. That one drives me nuts. I have even corrected people who tell me I'm being orientated to the floor. Telling them its oriented and get a blank look and then they continued to call it orientated the rest of the day.

Just had a relative tell me of her friend who packs a bag when she goes to the doctor, just in case he wants to send her to the hospital.

When my husband graduated from nursing school in 1993 it was the only time we had ever seen ads in the paper saying "no newgrads please". Most of his class had to go into long term care or rehab. A few months later he had no trouble getting on with a hospital but right out of school he had so many nasty interviews. Now those same facilities solicit him all the time.

I'm so amazed that your ICU lets in anyone who wants to come in. When my mother was a patient recently it was only two visitors at a time. I think yours is very unusual to allow 15 to 20 people at a time in those tiny rooms and to interfere with the harmony in the ICU.

I had a male resident who would be upset that someone spilled something in the chair he sat in and he didn't know it and now his pants were all wet.