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.

[SleeepyRN]

Nurse Manager, Administrator...

[explorereb96, ADN, BSN]

Octreotide  ugghh 

I'll stick to Sandostatin 

[ladedah1, BSN, RN]

On 3/8/2016 at 1:19 PM, whichone'spink said:

-Orientate. It's just wrong English.

-O2 stat. Why people use it is beyond me.

-Dilitation.

Definitely the O2 Stat... or, even worse, "statting" (as in "She's been statting at 95% since the RT increased her high flow").  Seriously?  What do these people think their abbreviating?  O2 staturation?? ???

If a person wants to sound like a really uneducated nurse, using any variant of stat in the same sentence as O2 (with the exception of STAT orders for O2) sure gets them off to a great start!