Im a member of another message board (not nursing related) and right now they are having the abortion debate (which I think is a ridiculous topic to argue because no one is going to change their views and everyone just gets upset because they arent changing peoples minds...inevitably, though, this topic comes up every few months by new members.)
At any rate, I have been following peoples comments/arguments and some of the things that they say drive me crazy!! ("30% of people who have abortions die from complications", "many women carry ectopic pregnancies to full term with no ill effects", etc.) I seriously think they just make things up that support their argument and call it common medical knowledge. I was thinking about it today and I realized how much more anal Ive become since I have been a nursing student. Even the little things drive me crazy and I fight the urge to correct people because I dont want to be rude. ("lar-nyx" instead of "larynx" is one that I hear all the time at work and I cant STAND IT!!) :chuckle
I had an instructor who pronounced (repeatedly) the word "opague" as "opek". It took me a minute to figure out what she was saying. When I did, I couldn't stop laughing! :)
I have a co-worker who pronounces "guiac" as "kwy-ack"
She also does not know the meaning of the word "sterilize." She says to apts "I am going to sterilize your catheter site." Or "I'm going to sterilize the table, before we set up the sterile field."
LOL!!! I actually corrected my teacher on the whole prostrate/prostate thing. She would always say Prostrate in class and it drove me BONKERS!!!! One day in post-conference, she corrected the pronunciation of some word my class mate was busy butchering and said "I would expect someone to correct me too..." So I did!!! Hah!!!
Oh man, I'm a lot like another poster here. Grammar mistakes - like heighth! There is no such word as "heighth!" It's "height!" That drives me crazy.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: THANK YOU!!!!!! That is one that drives me nuts, my husband and his family all say it! When we were first married, I used to politely correct him, he said heighth and I said height right after. I think he thought there must have been an echo in the room, because he never acknowledged the correction and still says it! :chuckle
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: THANK YOU!!!!!! That is one that drives me nuts, my husband and his family all say it! When we were first married, I used to politely correct him, he said heighth and I said height right after. I think he thought there must have been an echo in the room, because he never acknowledged the correction and still says it! :chuckle
My husband (a real Kentucky man) constantly says "oncest" for once, "twicest" for twice and death for deaf!!!!!!!!! Oh, and takuzi for jacuzzi. After 14 years I've given up. I also hate "same difference", there is no such thing as same difference. Orientated for oriented and hewlarious for hilarious. I know I'm anal, I'm okay with it. Just inhale deeply and it will pass.
I HAVE said "deef" for "deaf". But, where i come from "deef" is the term you use for someone who can't hear worth a crap, and are in deep denial that they really are deaf lol ("I CAN SO HEAR YE!! WHAT'D YA SAY AGAIN, HONEY?!").
Oh, I'm so glad to hear that other people are bugged by mispronunciations too, I thought I was just getting too stuffy in my old age! Prostrate is a biggy with me, drives me nuts! Also my current instructor incredibly mispronounces MANY words, which really surprises me. She too is guilty of lar-nyx, pronounces fremitus as frementus, stessoscope for stethoscope, and she slaughters the names of generic drugs. But I bite my tongue and don't dare to challenge her. Oh, it's been a long semester ....
My A&PI teacher has horrible pronunciation. "Thorakic" Half the time, I can't figure out what in h#$% she's trying to say. I write what it sounds like & make a note of what general vicinity we're discussing so that I have a snowball's chane of going back through the text to determine what she was trying to say.
Half the time, I can't figure out what in h#$% she's trying to say. I write what it sounds like & make a note of what general vicinity we're discussing so that I have a snowball's chane of going back through the text to determine what she was trying to say.
nurseshawna
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hey, lol, what board is that? one i visit is doing it too, maybe it is the same one..........