Words You Hate

[OyWithThePoodles]

Is there a medical word that you absolutely hate? Or one that you can never seem to pronounce correctly?

Hate:

• Meatus. (Eww)
• Gargle.

Mispronounce:

Prophylaxis. I ALWAYS say prophylaxicks.

I have a co-worker that says Cefazolin wrong and is convinced she is right. Drives me nuts.

[SmilingBluEyes]

in context!! yes!

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

Agreed! On our daily census reports it is usually written "expired" when a resident dies. That just makes me feel like we are comparing a person's death to old milk. I use deceased instead for that reason.

I use RCH'd for expired. You all are right, they aren't milk or cheese

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

Mispronounce: Phenergan. I hear it mispronounced as Phenergran. It really irks me that college educated nurses can't pronounce it correctly.

Phrenegan is what I hear from one of my coworkers

[roser13, ASN, RN]

I use RCH'd for expired. You all are right, they aren't milk or cheese

RCH? or RHC?

[Farawyn]

"essential oils"

[Chaya, ASN, RN]

[Pulmonary toilet...]

Second that. Can't help mentally inserting "in the" when I hear it. (Ocassionally, but I do hear it used)

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Atelecstasis.... have to think about it every. dam. time.

[SmilingBluEyes]

"colon"

Because it's too much like a man's name.

[future_RN, CNA]

Meatus is the only word I hate! It makes me cringe

[FluffyBike RN]

I transcribed for 12 years before I became a nurse (and still do on the side!) so have heard some doozies.

Like medical "regime" instead of regimen....is it a dictatorship?

Transcribed for a PA who could not pronounce furosemide, always came out like "fusemomide".

I transcribe mostly Urology, so "preputial" or "prepuce" :***:

[bluebonnetrn, BSN, RN]

"phenergrin"

UGH UGH UGH

Bad enough when a patient says it but I just can't understand why nurses would say that.

Also - I can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet:

"I'm nauseous"

Really? I don't think you are.

They always give me the confused look when I say that. But hey, I am just saying that I don't think you are causing anyone to be nauseated by your looks or smell. It's a compliment really.

Oh? You're nauseated. Got it.

[Undone]

Our charting system has "juicy cough" as a descriptor. I gagged just typing that...eeewww!

I'm with you all on orientate. Another that always made me rage was dialys-size instead of dialyze.

I love juicy anything, I would love to be able to document a cough as juicy.

I say juicy wound, the docs know what I mean, ha.