have you started becoming anal about things?

[grapejuice01]

I HAVE!!

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

[EarthChild1130]

Since my first degree is in English, you can bet grammatical mistakes bug me to NO end, but I've gotten less anal about that because there's just no helping some people...As for mispronunciation, here are some of my favorites!

I have a teacher who said last week that 'yarning' is a symptom of sleepiness. I spent the whole class period trying to figure out whether or not she was talking about knitting and what that had to do with sleeping! LMAO!

My grandmother is famous for her 'made-up' words...here are only a few:

Due to a bladder problem which has now been repaired, she had to wear a diaphragm...she called it her diagram.

She has titanium dental implants...she calls it her Titanic metal.

Steven Segal the actor is called Steven Stee-gall.

My husband also lets a few slip now and then:

He doesn't say 'pave', as in 'they are going to pave the road'...he says 'pathe'!

He also says 'pacific' instead of 'specific'

O I could go on forever...gotta love those hubbies and grannies! LOL

[FutureArmyNurse]

My brother-in-law, whenever he meets a girl he likes, says she has great "potentiality." :uhoh21:

I cringe every time our valiant leader George Idiot Bush decides to talk about "Nu-Kew-lar" weapons. :stone

My husband has a slight Texan twang. A mirror is a "mira," if you screw up you've made an "erra," and if you're thirsty, well by howdy go and get yourself a "drank!"

*shudder*

[pj_marie]

:uhoh21:

Not real sure if this counts here or not but, when I first started reading this thread, I surely thought that I would see things I thought I was anal about. Not so! Words/spellings/grammer, etc.., things like that don't really bother me. (If my post is horrible on any of those things, please forgive me in advance!) It's the things that happen on the floor that really drive me buggy!!! I am a fairly "green" CNA and have been at a LTC facility for almost 2 months now and can actually chew gum while cleaning up whatever bodily fluids happen to be around... LOL! Anywho, what really gets me goat is those that do NOT wear gloves.... EVER!!! EWWW! Or this one CNA that I worked with recently that has been at this facility for over 2 years and is asking ME what, when, and how to do almost everything! Not to mention her being up my butt for all 8 hrs. on top of it. Or the ones that can't remember a residents name that is on their group when they have had that same exact group for x-amount of time. UGH!!! My absolute biggest pet peeve has to be the question of "What do you want me to do with the urine I measured in the graduate?" HELLO!! What do you usually do with urine??? Maybe it's just me, who knows? LOL Thanks!

PJ

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

Nurses and CNAs who call their pts "Honey" and "Sweetheart" drive me crazy.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

As a former professional writer turned nurse, you can bet grammar and pronunciation are my pet peeves! I cringed when my nursing instructor pronounced "Hippocrates" as "hippo - crates" (as in boxes for hippos). How about 'reNember' for 'remember'? This from a friend who is a police officer! Drives me NUTS! Even caught the local PBS station saying "cally - ope" for calliope! And let's not even get into some of the nursing errors! 'Tenent' for tendon???? Ducosate for docusate....Yep, I'm anal to the Nth degree...and proud of it!

Hippo-crates...boxes for hippos" Lol!

Thanks for the laugh!

:rotfl:

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

:chuckle

Nurses and CNAs who call their pts "Honey" and "Sweetheart" drive me crazy.

lol, Double-check the first name sometimes. A former DON started to give me a lecture for calling someone "Honey", but i had to stop and inform her that the pt. prefered to be called by her first name, and it was Hunnie.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

:chuckle

lol, Double-check the first name sometimes. A former DON started to give me a lecture for calling someone "Honey", but i had to stop and inform her that the pt. prefered to be called by her first name, and it was Hunnie.

I live in Texas, and there is so much "Honey" and "Sweetie" here, I just want to barf!

I will be 40 years old this year. When I go to a restaurant, and nineteen-year-old waitress calls me "Sweetheart", I just want to slap them!

[silly RN]

this thread is so great, i am cracking up over here. all of these things drive me nuts too!

one that i will add is when people are looking for something they have lost and then find it. they say "it's always in the last place you look" OF COURSE it is in the last place you look, you wouldn't keep looking after you found it. like, "oh good i found it. . .but i'll keep on looking in a couple more places"

hahaha

it will always be in the last place you look. i promise.

:heartbeatsilly rn

[RNKel, ASN, RN]

You're grammar pets sounds like a lot like mine!

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No offense, but the you're/your thing (like your error above, LOL) is one of my peeves! LOL