It is therefore essential to humanize the language of medicine. For years, the language of healthcare has remained medicalized, overly specialized and professionalized (Okun 2013), with many acronyms and expressions, leaving little time to understand the patient's vocabulary. Additionally, there should be a standardized way to collect a patient's explanation of a particular disease or medication in order to learn, encode, and store this information for future use. Okun's solution to this problem was to create a patient's lexicon using technology to record patients' terminologies and match them to their correct medical terminologies. It is imperative that followers, employees or students understand what is being said for there to be meaningful reciprocity. As a future nursing home administrator, Okun's message resonates. As a leader, supervisor, and understanding provider, the very basic needs of a patient are