when you are a patient, do you tell the attending doctors/nurses that you are a nurse?
i dont for a variety of reasons
*my proffession is rarely brought up, i would never lie about it.
*my training was 20+ years ago and i stopped working in the hospital system 17+ years ago, there is much i do not know and i would never want not to be explained something with the assumption i knew it, when perhaps i didnt.
*i would not want anyone to think i mentioned it because i was seeking preferential treatment
what are your thoughts and if you have been a patient, what did you do ?(this is ofcourse assuming you were not being attended to by people you have worked with/who know you)
I rarely mention that I'm a nurse, but it's on my records (I've been a member of the same HMO for 30 years) and if the staff doesn't notice it, one of my family usually blabs. Like one of the other posters, I claim to "only work with" (in my case) pregnant and post-partum women.
Jamesdotter
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I rarely mention that I'm a nurse, but it's on my records (I've been a member of the same HMO for 30 years) and if the staff doesn't notice it, one of my family usually blabs. Like one of the other posters, I claim to "only work with" (in my case) pregnant and post-partum women.