You're welcome and my thoughts

• still looking for s/l terseray contractions - tros
  • Tertiary - CM
  • small? tertiary contractions - ab
  • Tertiary - mer
    • A big big thank you - trose
      • You're welcome and my thoughts - mer
    • It really is a shame. SM - woo
      • Then if it's such an effort, maybe - mer
      • thank you, I think - trose
        • Trose, helping doesn't bother me and I did not mean to hurt your feelings. SM - woo
          • Sincerely thank you - trose
            • You are so welcome. Good luck to you! NM - woo

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That's what I kept finding in doing my research, but like I said that guy needs to speak clearer English......but I guess that would be too easy.  Ha-ha!

Thanks for verifying what I had put down.  I will get this some day, but I am new and just learning.  Thanks for bearing with me.

First to address the issue of subcu - Joint Commission created a list several years ago that deals with this wording - and JC trumps BOS.  From Joint Commissions List of Dangerous Abbreviations:

Abbreviation: S.C. or S.Q. (for subcutaneous)

Potential Problem:  Mistaken as SL for sublingual, or "5 every"

Preferred Term:  Write "Sub-Q", "subQ", or "subcutaneously"

As far as what the man was trying to express to you was his opinion that truncated words (partial words used to express a complete word) should be avoided.  Trach is not a word.  Trachea, tracheostomy, etc., are words.  Alk is not a word.  Alkaline is a word.  There are also lab and other words that are commonly acceptable in their abbreviated form, such as INR, CPAP, MRI, etc.

There are acceptable abbreviations of certain words that are commonplace.  For example, lab is widely accepted to represent laboratory.  Exam is acceptable to represent examination.  HIV is another example.

If you understand the difference between the use of an abbreviation and avoiding the use of truncated words, your work will reflect a much clearer intent of the dictation.

Your company needs to decide which side of the fence it wants to sit on, and it appears there may be some changes in your QA future.  If this man is in charge of QA and you want to continue working there, you might want to begin taking note of what he is saying.

...I hear ya!  Was one of those days for me, too...grrrr!  Had a report today where the doc said pulse ox....all I could hear was something like PSACS...it finally hit me & I felt like such a nincompoop

Anyway, glad I could help.  Hang in there

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