Thursday, December 5, 2013

Pronunciation

I can understand when a patient mispronounces a medication. They do have some ridiculous names, let's be honest. But SERIOUSLY PEOPLE. If you are an intelligent nurse, STOP MISPRONOUNCING "PHENERGAN!" For fuck's sake, it's not phener-GRIN. Just stop.

We had computer training for a new (super awful) EMAR/charting system at work today, and that's the medication the superuser nurse decided to reference. Incorrectly. About a billion times. It was AWFUL.
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10 comments:

  1. AesopDecember 6, 2013 at 12:29 AM

    If photocopying the link to the PDR or nursing drug reference doesn't solve the problem, try a trip to a ToysRUs, and gluing kid's blocks together to correctly spell the word, then gift the result to that nurse anonymously.

    It's both funny and fun, and you get to play with blocks!

    Condolences on having to play with another EMAR.

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  2. JenniferDecember 6, 2013 at 7:40 AM

    One of my personal favorites is LAR-NIKS, over. and over. and over. Just how hard is it to pronounce larynx LAR-INKS? Yet medical people, in whom one might reasonably expect some fluency in medical terminology, get pissy when you point these things out.

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  3. Solitary Diner (Also Known as The Frugalish Physician)December 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM

    I would also appreciate it if people wouldn't say "metropolol". Makes my eye twitch every time.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 8:38 PM

    I met an EMS instructor who continually mispronounced acetaminophen, "act-a-men-o-phen."

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  5. AnonymousDecember 12, 2013 at 6:23 PM

    Bupropion. Not buproprion! It is not a prion disease! Thank you and good night.

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  6. SamDecember 15, 2013 at 2:38 AM

    went to a trauma lecture and the nurse giving the lecture kept saying "sphinxter tone" or "spinster tone" instead of sphincter tone. It was painful.

    I also have a patient that always says "vomicking". FML.

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  7. Lisa researching hospital admissionsDecember 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM

    Ugh. I also get very annoyed when people repeatedly mispronounce words. I used to work at an oral surgeon's office, and the office manager was a straight hillbilly. Warsh, ain't, accrost. It seriously drove me bananers.

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  8. littlemissbigJanuary 20, 2014 at 2:12 AM

    A 'medical professional' on a radio commercial kept mis-pronouncing Artherosclerosis. I'm not a nurse yet, and I know how to pronounce it.

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  9. ownuprojasFebruary 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM

    y all-time favorite screwed up word is Alzheimer's -- people it is not "Old-timers"! I have heard medical colleagues mispronounce it also!

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  10. UnknownJune 4, 2016 at 9:08 AM

    I am not a nurse, but my mom, my sister, my current girlfriend, and standards couple of ex-girlfriends were or still are and so I have been around the profession for a long time and it drives me insane to hear people say it "fin-uh-grin." I have even corrected them before as to the correct pronunciation and, sure enough, they keep saying it wrong. Drives me insane.

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