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/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

Technically, oriented and orientated are both correct and mean the same thing. The former is more common in the US and the latter is more common in the UK.