Ok. So I'll start by saying that when I hear the office or a nurse say "orientate", it is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Its orient, not orientate.
Another one is O2 "stat". Its O2 sat, as in saturation.
Its trach, not "trache".
Or parents who tell me their kid has a trachea...I sure hope so! I want to tell them their kid isn't special for that and that we all have a trachea.
Parents that tell their kid I'll give them a shot if they don't behave. I'm not around to cause pain or scare a child.
And parents that speak Walmart! When they tell me they want to "axe me" I fear for my life or my job and then they just ask me a question.
Incorrect spelling of meds. It can lead to a med error. The med name is on the container. It can be looked up online if needed. I can't stand hearing "Phenergren", its phenergan.
Seeing/hearing yankauer spelled/said incorrectly. Passy-Muir is another.
Formula doesn't always have milk in it. Some patients are allergic to milk/dairy. Calling it milk and saying you don't want your kid to drink milk because its too much milk just sounds silly.
"The Walmart language" makes me cringe every time I hear it. Some of the worst ones for me personally, not nursing related, are the following... "I seen that on the TV" or "I got my hair did."
I have cringed so many times when a friend of mine posted on facebook "Getting my hair did". Your hair is getting styled or done. Saying you got your hair did sounds dumb.
I also can't stand when someone says "mines" . No that is mine. Mines are like someone else posted explosive devices.
When I lived in the ghetto, a local hair salon was called "Girlfriend Hooked Me Up!" I always wanted to walk in and ask what Girlfriend hooked her up to.
I can't stand people who use the word "rape" to describe anything besides forced sexual contact. My little sister is active duty military, and when she was stationed at West Point she described buying gas off base as "rape." I'm familiar with New York gas taxes, and it's nothing like being forced to have sex.
theres another thread going on about this very same idea, its pages and pages long of stuff. so ill toss over a couple of the stuff i posted there over here
but first, let me start of by saying "oriented" and "orientated" or both acceptable, but it depends what you're trying to say.
Patient is "Alert and Oriented"-- this means, theyre alert and know whats going on
Orientated is a verb- which means, you've oriented a person to said situation. But to say "alert and oreintated" ugh, no.
With that said, i love hearing:
Sugar Blood
High Blood
Low Blood (for anemia, not hypotension oddly enough)
Peanutbutterballs (phenobarbital)
Dilau-DERD, and Dailau-da
LarNYX (instead of larynx, same goes with pharnyx..)
and i cant get a consensus on this but often i hear dia-STOLE and sys-TOLE instead of dia-stoly and sys-toly, which is pronunciation of choice for me as ive NEVER heard anyone say a-sys-tole, instead of a-sys-toly
When I lived in the ghetto, a local hair salon was called "Girlfriend Hooked Me Up!" I always wanted to walk in and ask what Girlfriend hooked her up to.
I can't stand people who use the word "rape" to describe anything besides forced sexual contact. My little sister is active duty military, and when she was stationed at West Point she described buying gas off base as "rape." I'm familiar with New York gas taxes, and it's nothing like being forced to have sex.
another than your husbands abysmal pronunciation of genre, the other examples are more just colloquial. im much for forgiving of that than blatant disregard of spelling and modern day phonetics lol
I was shocked the other day when someone told me that I wasn't supposed to pronounce the "t" in often. She said it had been bugging her for years that I did so.
I'm still skeptical. I don't care what anyone says, the "t" should be pronounced!
Nope, the t is silent. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. (ETA well according to GreenTea it can be either away. But I'm still right. Of-ten is like nails on a chalkboard to me!)
When I worked in the Caribbean for a while, everyone said " I have de Sugah!" for diabetes, and "I have de Presshhuuuh" for high blood pressure. Just embrace the silliness... it's the only way you'll survive!
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