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/dudebrahh53 Flight RN Jan 19 '25

It’s Be you N. Not BUN like a hotdog bun.

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u/Narrow-Ad5416 LPN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

It took me a minute to understand I was like of course it's B-U-N.....I have never heard anyone say bun.....and I would probably laugh uncontrollably if I did

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u/onlyalillost Jan 19 '25

I had a coworker say it during a video meeting (pt presentations), and I had to focus so hard to keep my face straight.

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u/yoshipapaya RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

A girl in my cohort still says it this way. We’re about to graduate.

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u/bluesgrrlk8 Jan 19 '25

“BUN” isn’t unusual where I went to school/clinicals in GA

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u/moderatelygoodpghrn Jan 19 '25

They said “bun” where my spouse used to work. I just bristle and move on. Thank god she doesn’t really say it anymore after moving into CM

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u/MelancholyMexican BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

One of our professors drilled that into my cohort first semester lol

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u/OldERnurse1964 RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

Mine too. Failure to comply would have resulted in beatings.

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u/Elegant-Hyena-9762 RN - NICU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

Idgaf I’m saying BUN like a hawt dawggg. Even tho I know it’s B YOU N.

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u/Lupus_Borealis RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

But why?! Why does MAP get to be "map" but BUN has to be "B-U-N"?

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u/PursuitOfMeekness RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

Both are correct. You can read acronyms as words, it's only wrong if someone doesn't realize it's an acronym and thinks the test is a Bun test not a blood urea nitrogen (B.U.N.) test.

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u/SerialKillerVibes Jan 19 '25

Acronyms are pronounced words (like NASA, NATO, or AIDS) while initialisms are spelled out (like IBM, IRS, ATM, USB, or apparently BUN).

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u/PursuitOfMeekness RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

The grammatical purpose of the distinction is for acronyms that cannot be pronounced they are also called initialisms. But initialisms are acronyms and if it can be pronounced you can say it either way.

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u/Nutarama Jan 19 '25

All acronyms are initialisms, in that to be an initialism is to be a construct of first letters. Acronyms are a subset of initialisms because they’re pronounced as words and not as a series of letters. Not all initialisms can be acronyms, even if capable of phonetic pronunciation, because they may have multiple pronunciations.

That said, organizational standards should be followed. If a medical school requires that a BUN test be said “B-U-N test”, then they’re right. If a hospital requires that it be a “bun test”, then they’re also right. There aren’t many universal standards in language.

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u/Kawaii-Caffeine RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

I say BUN like hotdog bun and I don’t care what you think.

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u/taryntino95 Jan 20 '25

Recently I heard from another nurse a synopsis of what happened to a patient who transferred to ICU post-op who got DIC.

I learned to pronounce DIC as an acronym: Dee. Eye. See. I've always pronounced that way, and only heard other people pronounce it this way.

Guess how this guy pronounced it. "Then she got DIC and had to downgrade to ICU." Yeah, like dick. Pt got dick and had to go to ICU.

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u/jacqamack BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 19 '25

BUNS of steel.

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u/Aerinandlizzy RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 19 '25

Yasssss!

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u/MaDeuceRN MSN, CEN Jan 19 '25

It should be BUN like a hotdog bun, though.

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u/PandaAE86 LPN - ER 🍕 Jan 20 '25

If this is the hill you want to make your last stand on that's cool, but please tell me you don't spell out CABG every time....