New name for the Nursing profession?

If a new name is picked ... whatever it is will be hated by a certain percentage of the people... people who value the positive aspects of our heritage (even as they recognize our problems.) The attempt would be yet another divisive movement within the profession at a time when we need more unity, not divisiveness. The fighting about it would cost a lot of energy and a lot of money changing all the wording in nurse practice acts, other laws, insurance policies, etc. It would cost society billions of dollars! ... all for the choice of a new name that will be unsatisfactory to a lot of people anyway. There are better ways to spend our time, our energy, and society's money.

Also, changing the word in an attempt to discard our problems will not actually change many of our problems. Most of the old problems would remain. Societal/cultural change does not come that easily.

We should focus our resources on identifying and changing the real, underlying causes of our problems -- not creating more (and expensive) divisions within the profession.

llg

Semantics will not solve nursing's problems. Many of them come from within our divisive ranks and must be, therefore, worked from within!

there you go. it's like bandaging a wound that just won't heal.

Hi Dan,

Remember the "Murse" (male nurse) thing from your other thread?

What if the elderly female pt. went on with..."Moose??...You say you're a moose? Well, isn't that lovely. Actually, I'm not really a human either, I'm actually an Aardvark! And you see that lady across from me? She's really a giraffe! " ...as she reaches for her call button to alert security that she has a "moose-man" in her room.

Okay, I'll let it go now...te he...

Just joshin' with ya Dan...

I wanted to be a nurse since I was 9 years old. I worked HARD to become one, I earned the title, and I don't care to be called anything else professionally. "Nurse" suits me just fine.

A rose by any other name is still a rose. and if it is a the title your concerned about. FIND ANOTHER PROFESSION THEY HAVE PLENTY OF THEM!!!

I don't believe in the name game.

Nursing is an honorable title for an honorable profession.

Think if it this way. Nursing= Nurtering.
The mother feeds the baby by nursing and helps him/ her grow.
We nurse our patients back to an optimal state of health.

See the equation.