maybe its just me, but i get very bothered when someone says "i'm a nurse," and their not, their a cna, or nurse aid, or have no schooling at all and just worked their way up in a clinic. i work at a local emergency clinic 30 hours a week to gain experience in my field, and i just got accepted in ns, and i'v worked darn hard to get here! and i find it bothersome when one of the girls at work say "i'm the nurse" or something along those lines...i feel that when i graduate and pass my nclex that, only then, will i be able to say "i'm a nurse." the other day my doctor said "jamie, will you get a nurse?" i said "im sorry doc, i dont think we have any of those working here." he actually laughed and said "you know what i mean"......but is this just me?????
Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.
Hmmmm...
Since I AM a NURSE ---- IF I went to work for a veterinarian I think I really could be a CAT NURSE.
No really, it irks me too. But, what can you really do?
Actually you would be a vet tech, not a cat nurse. No vet employees a nurse but a large number of them do employ vet techs, who have gone through a long training program and in a number of states are certified.
At least that is what my daughter tells me. And since she is a Sgt in an Animal Control District, I tend to believe her.
Actually you would be a vet tech, not a cat nurse. No vet employees a nurse but a large number of them do employ vet techs, who have gone through a long training program and in a number of states are certified.
At least that is what my daughter tells me. And since she is a Sgt in an Animal Control District, I tend to believe her.
Woody:balloons:
There's a movement to call them "vet nurses" because they have an associates degree, like many RNs do, and they perform many duties, such as assisting in the OR, recovering patients, monitoring and assessments, dressings etc. that nurses do.
Nurses for the most part angrily object to this, so they remain "vet techs".
We've had a couple of very long threads about that topic, so lets not go there. Just an FYI tidbit.
OMG, much to do about nothing!!!!! this topic -obsurd. someone cleared it upon on the LPN/RN issue. Honestly for mature people who is about there business, you guys are fussing about what? You (nurses and nursing students) will be paid as nurses that's what matters. Hello!
Health care professional unity please. Nurses should know how it feels to be looked down on (as less than by doctors) Get off your high horse, or maybe you just need some humble pie? Life will provide that easily. Good luck.
You are not a nurse. Therefore, your telling nurses what they should and should not feel regarding professional licensure is what is truly absurd.
Your post was abrasive, rude, and adds absolutely nothing to the integrity of this discussion. Perhaps you should consider the source of your personal anger before venting here inappropriately.
I'm sorry but it is your type of attitude that is a problem. You seem to believe that pay is the only and most important issue. It may be for you. For me, the entry level, the skills and knowledge, what makes up a nurse are much more important then a slary. And I was paid much more than even the average DON, here in Florida.
Woody
You know what, Woody? I'm not sorry at all....this person's apparent lack of education, lack of nursing licensure is his or her own problem, and does not reflect poorly on the profession of nursing. One has to be IN the profession to be a poor reflection on it.
Reminds me: I really need to go to a message board for chiropractors and tell them what's wrong with all of them, professionally.....
Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.
You know what, Woody? I'm not sorry at all....this person's apparent lack of education, lack of nursing licensure is his or her own problem, and does not reflect poorly on the profession of nursing. One has to be IN the profession to be a poor reflection on it.
Reminds me: I really need to go to a message board for chiropractors and tell them what's wrong with all of them, professionally.....
Can I go a long. I really have a bone to pick with chiropractors
I was just trying to be polite. I really have very little patience with people who pretend to be nurses, who really are not.
No big deal to me. I've been a nurse for 25 years, and consider anyone who takes care of someone else a "nurse".
If this means NAs, CNAs, caregivers, doesn't matter to me.
Just don't see Florence Nightengale getting upset using the TERM-"nurse" for anyone providing care to another.
It is a wonderful verb/noun, and I personally don't feel the need to take it from others.
My mother nursed her sister until she passed. She had no license, no formal nursing education, but she was a nurse to Aunt Jean just the same.
You have your titles "Registered Nurse", "Licensed Practical Nurse"...why attempt to narrow what the word "nurse" encompasses?
I just don't get it.
But, again, no big deal to me.
I understand where you're coming from. You're thinking of the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you "nurse" someone, as your mother did for your aunt. A large difference, however, is that your aunt wasn't about to sue your mother for improperly caring for her, was she? And in Flo's day, people weren't about to go to court for nursing care at the time.
Biggest problem I have is with those who do NOT provide "care" to anyone at all. They answer phones in a medical office. They aren't "nursing" anyone. Yet they call themselves "the office nurse" and dispense medical advice and opinion as though they had anything at all with which to back that up.
As I've said before, the first time you have to decipher whatever the heck nonsense "the nurse" told an elderly friend or relative (who, if they follow that nonsense can and will likely injure themselves), you'd understand what the big deal is.
I think you missed the part about me nursing for 25 years. (Ouch, I get great back pain every time I think about it!)
Those cute/annoying insistance from emphatic misinformed persons: "That nurse told me to ALWAYS take that pill- she said without it I could die!!" Gotta love it- finding out the "nurse" was the lady in billing, just answering the phone.
Of course, I have had the same emphatic misinformation from Doctors: "He said the calcium pill would take care of my blood pressure".
(These are both made up examples, but we have all heard something like it, haven't we?)
Misinformation comes from all around us, and I have seen plenty of it also coming from titled nurses.
I also don't see any legal angle, (other than those states declaring the word "nurse" for titled persons only.
Guess I was raised hearing the word used describing care giving.
Still don't see any problem.
Seems like we are attempting to regulate and hoard the word "nurse". It is a word, not a title.
(Yes, I know that words are powerful.)
I am all for keeping the titles regulated, not the word.
But, I am also all for others right to have a very different opinion than mine.
They took 1-2-3 Jello off the market, without my consent, and not bothering about my opinion (the withdrawals were terrible), and I had to learn humility, and that sometimes other people's opinions mattered.
Life sometimes deals great blows.
With that, I think I should say "good night, Gracey". I have been up too long.
You are not a nurse. Therefore, your telling nurses what they should and should not feel regarding professional licensure is what is truly absurd.
Your post was abrasive, rude, and adds absolutely nothing to the integrity of this discussion. Perhaps you should consider the source of your personal anger before venting here inappropriately.
First of all I am not a nurse but in a family of nurses and nurse friends who are about handling there business who tend to agree. It is, I repeat "obsurd" anyway you look at it. Abrasive? oh well the truth hurts. I may have been a patient, hha, pca, cna, lpn, other nurse or doctor who witness such pettiness in a hospital, nursing home, or assistive living facility where the patient was the one who suffered the most. Even where uneseccary pain and death was involved (true story). Was it rude or was it a rude awakening? And I'm hoping it would add integrity.
You know what, Woody? I'm not sorry at all....this person's apparent lack of education, lack of nursing licensure is his or her own problem, and does not reflect poorly on the profession of nursing. One has to be IN the profession to be a poor reflection on it.
Reminds me: I really need to go to a message board for chiropractors and tell them what's wrong with all of them, professionally.....
Regarding money I also heard many of you talk and the topic was money, pt. should be priority. I believe that. And the messages were not to all educated, nursing licensure but to the stuck up educated licensure who has a bone to pick or likes to nit pick at silly things.
woody62, RN
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Actually you would be a vet tech, not a cat nurse. No vet employees a nurse but a large number of them do employ vet techs, who have gone through a long training program and in a number of states are certified.
At least that is what my daughter tells me. And since she is a Sgt in an Animal Control District, I tend to believe her.
Woody:balloons: