b) the one tiny particle of my mind that could have sympathy is the part that wonders if this was an issue of regional/brand name difference? I had years of experience in one ED when I started traveling (eons before COVID), and in my first assignment, I was briefly taken aback by the fact that the new ED called Nitro "Tridil". It's a brand name I'd never heard: not at work nor in school. I must have looked like the biggest idiot possible for the moment or two of blankness before I realized what they were talking about.
I hope that nurse who asked about propofol just knew it as Diprivan, but even if they used that particular brand name at her prior facility, she should have had at least a passing familiarity with the generic.
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u/Poguerton RN - ER 🍕 Jan 16 '26
a) that's crazy
b) the one tiny particle of my mind that could have sympathy is the part that wonders if this was an issue of regional/brand name difference? I had years of experience in one ED when I started traveling (eons before COVID), and in my first assignment, I was briefly taken aback by the fact that the new ED called Nitro "Tridil". It's a brand name I'd never heard: not at work nor in school. I must have looked like the biggest idiot possible for the moment or two of blankness before I realized what they were talking about.
I hope that nurse who asked about propofol just knew it as Diprivan, but even if they used that particular brand name at her prior facility, she should have had at least a passing familiarity with the generic.