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Working on an Ob/Gyn floor that day, worked on Float team. Reading a patient's chart & didn't understand an abbreviation. "TTIPR"...I went to Resident who wrote it, he happened to be from Jamaica. " That means tubes tied in Puerto Rico "...had to tell him that is not an approved abbreviation in the USA !!

Hi, I am new to the group. My name is Sondra Potts. I have been a nurse for 22 years, first 15 in the Emergency Dept & last few years as the Hospice Manager. In nursing school my instructor must have thought I was timid. While checking off on male catheter insertion she said, “Just grab it like you mean it!” Oh, I did and the penis fell off the mannequin. 🤦‍♀️ I almost died of embarrassment!!

I was charge nurse on the Oncology Unit and asked a medical resident who graduated from a medical school in the Middle East to sign a death certificate on a patient. There’s a world of difference in how people interpret what is said and what you mean … I looked at him and said, “will you pronounce for me?” … he shoves his ID badge in my face and says “Malik”! I said, “no .. will you pronounce a patient for me?” … he says “certainly … what would you like for me to call him?” and I said “dead .. we’ll start with that “. I immediately knew that this was the first time he had ever had to that so I told him that all he had to do was listen for respirations, check for a pulse, etc … he knocks loudly on the door, yells out the patient’s name and I said, “he’s NOT going to answer you!” … I had to help him fill out the death certificate because he was sooo rattled. We become friends after that and we called each other “Malik”.