Open Post 10

One of the talk topics we discussed was an interesting take on the medical fields language. Having worked in a hospital for while i found that my experience differed from the one she writes about in her short "Learn the language". It is also notable that she wrote the paper in the 1980's opposed to my experience in the 21 century. I was surprised to see that they would use terms like "in the coffin" of "rolling the toilet bowl" because these seem like unprofessional things to be saying about patients. In my experience everyone that I worked with showed a high level of professionalism while working in the hospital. I think this is really important because lives are at stake in a hospital so people really should not be joking around in a serious situation like that. Also in my experience I did not hear people using abbreviations to explain situations like she mentions in her essay.  Usually the nurses would be very forward and straight up with the P.A and tell them exactly what was happening, so that he could fully understand the patients condition,

I am trying to learn the language because I think it is important to know how to communicate properly with people in the workplace. Knowing the proper terms and what is acceptable or unacceptable is very important in being successful, No matter where you work at the language will vary so that is why it is necessary to learn the language of the workplace in order to properly present yourself as a professional.