Things that aggravate the heck out of me!

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Here are a couple of my greatest pet peeves:

1. Firsly, it's "HIPAA" NOT "HIPPA." Learn the dadgum acronym!!!

2. Instructors who have MSN degrees and STILL spell things wrong on the Power Point slide or put apostrophes where there shouldn't be one. For example, "supply's" when they mean the plural of supply. Argh! They got out of grad school with that kind of learnin'? :lol2:

That's all I can think of at this time. I would love to find out what everyone else's are! :-)

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

*firstly LOL (correcting spelling in an online forum will always come back to bite you.. no one is immune from typos)

Srsly, no one's perfect & I'm really glad of that -- seeing as how I am chock-full of imperfections myself. If you feel the need to provide corrective feedback to your instructors, by all means do so in the end-of-term evaluations when you have the protection of anonymity.

In the meantime, I don't sweat the small stuff. I'd rather save my ire for a health care system in which elderly people are unable to afford their meds, biased newcasts, inane legislation, failure to prosecute war crimes. . . the list keeps getting longer.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.

HouTX, you beat me to it.

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It bugs me too. If there are a lot of typos and errors, it does get in the way of understanding what's being communicated. We have a teacher who does that and it's distracting to me.

One of the things that probably bugs me the most and that I see a lot on the internet is "conscience" versus "conscious." People seem to confuse these two a lot. Also "there," "their," and "they're." That one can really put up a barrier to understanding and I'll have to go back over and figure out what they meant. Even if it only takes an extra few seconds, it's annoying to me. :o

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Haha, I got "owned" on a message board by spelling "firstly" incorrectly, LOL! :-) Darn it, that's what happens when one (or more!) of my 3 kitties tries to vie for my attention by walking around the keyboard while I'm trying to type, hahaha! One of those "D'oh!" moments, I suppose. :-)

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Misspelled words does not bother me along with typos on ppts. People make mistakes and no one is perfect (I would hate to meet the person who is).

No, my beef is with my fellow peers. I have classmates who spend 7 minutes of class time arguing with the teacher about why she think the material is wrong. I don't know what the point is by arguing with the teacher and it just wastes everyone else's time.

Fellow classmates who have the whole, "I'm better than you" attitude just make me want to b*tch slap them. There is no room in Nursing for condescension, I am under the firm belief that if you have nothing nice to say don't say it at all.

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I have a prof that says "lair-nix" instead of larynx. Drives me crazy, but she's a great professor (by far the best I have this semester) so I just bite my tongue when it happens.

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