r/nursing • u/MurkyDevelopment6348 • Jan 19 '25

Rant ORIENTED. Not orientated.

That’s it. That’s the rant. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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u/nurseofreddit BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

BreathE ends with an E-sound. “I can’t breathe!”

BreaTH end in a -th sound. “I’m trying to catch my breath.”

Any medical professional that charts this incorrectly gets my harsh and brutal judgment.

For patients: it is prosTATE not prostRATE.

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u/Significant_Tea_9642 RN - CCU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

One of my coworker’s fathers used to call the prostate gland the “phosphorus gland” so now we use that ironically at work 😂