A little frustrated.. need to vent...

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Ok, warning... this is something that I've seen several times on this site. Forgive me if this is technically beating a dead horse, but now that I've been through NS and taken the NCLEX... it really bugged me and I just don't understand it.

An acquaintance from school posted this on FB...

Passed my med aide test!!! Now I'm a nurse.... So excited!!!

This person failed out in semester 1 because of cheating. I'm sorry, but no... you are not a nurse. You are a med aide.

** I have nothing against med aides. They have a role to play in patient care, too. They are not a nurse, though.

Why do people do this? It makes me both sad and annoyed at the same time. If just anyone can call themselves a nurse, why is nursing school so difficult? Why is the NCLEX so difficult? Why is keeping our skills and knowledge up to date constantly (along with the many other things to keep a license) so complex?

Please don't be to hard on me for bringing this up... like I said, just needed to vent a little.

Specializes in Critical Care- Medical ICU.

I have a friend who just passed CNA school and now she tells EVERYONE that she's a nurse. It bothers me soooo much, I worked my you-know-what off to become an RN and continue to work my you-know-what off each day to keep my patients alive! Nothing wrong with being a CNA, but don't take the credit for being an RN! I don't call myself a Dr. :)

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I agree and probably would have been the one to post right back on the facebook that

No you are a Med Aide says so right there in your post! But sometimes I can be pretty direct.

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I agree. I'm an LVN. I am a nurse. I am not nor would I ever present myself as an RN anymore than I would a Doctor or Pharmacist or anyone else.

Actually if she's here in TX that status update on fb can land her in a heap of trouble if I remember correctly. She is misrepresenting herself as a nurse and that's a HUGE no-no. Like I think a felony no-no. Even if it is just on fb.

HOWEVER...playing devil's advocate here... some of the people who dropped from my class due to grades, work schedule whatever...got in our sister school that started a few weeks behind us..so they will get pinned in December. So she could have had an autospell malfunction (happens on my android phone all the time) and completed at a different school and really pinned as a nurse? Not sure how it works where you are but ....just thinking of what could have happened..

Do I think it did? nope.

I think she's an idiot for saying she's a nurse when she's gotten a 12 wk med aide certificate.

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Specializes in MedSurg, Clinic, ER.
I agree. I'm an LVN. I am a nurse. I am not nor would I ever present myself as an RN anymore than I would a Doctor or Pharmacist or anyone else.

Actually if she's here in TX that status update on fb can land her in a heap of trouble if I remember correctly. She is misrepresenting herself as a nurse and that's a HUGE no-no. Like I think a felony no-no. Even if it is just on fb.

HOWEVER...playing devil's advocate here... some of the people who dropped from my class due to grades, work schedule whatever...got in our sister school that started a few weeks behind us..so they will get pinned in December. So she could have had an autospell malfunction (happens on my android phone all the time) and completed at a different school and really pinned as a nurse? Not sure how it works where you are but ....just thinking of what could have happened..

Do I think it did? nope.

I think she's an idiot for saying she's a nurse when she's gotten a 12 wk med aide certificate.

I actually had the same thought, since there's another nursing school in a neighboring town 15 minutes away, so I asked in my response if she had gone back... she clarified that she had not and was going to enjoy being a medication aide for a while. :uhoh3:

I just don't understand it... be proud of who and what you are.. don't claim something you haven't earned.

I'm an LVN, too.. I'd never claim any position other than that. I am a nurse, but I am not an RN...

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.

"Why do people do it...?"

Well, there is a reason, two, if you count plain ol' stoopid.

The psychology is pretty much the same as the 23 y/o Gulf War I vet(or the 23 y/o Vietnam vet, 15 years ago :rolleyes:). Inadequate self-acutalization, narcissism(belief in self-competence greater than demonstrable proficiency), feelings of inadequacy. Some (this is my term, not clinical) functional sociopaths.

They typically lack the ability to perform consistently, though they may have moments of brilliance. They are more concerned with being credited with accomplishment, rather than performing.

Set fire to them. They're dangerous.

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