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 Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I have a very dear, old friend that teaches both CNA students and Student PNs. One of the first thing she teaches to each class is their place and role in the health care field. To the CNA students she tells them, 'you are a certified nurse's assistant when you complete this course successfully. You are not a nurse.' And to the PN students, 'you will be a licnsed practical nurse when you complete this course and pass your licensing exam. You are not an R.N. And you are limited to what NYS NPA says you are.' She also instills pride into each group, in what they do, in what they contribute.
Like I have said before, I cannot understand why anyone wants to call themselves something they are not, unless it is envy. I would love to call myself doctor but I hold neither an M.D., D.O. or a PhD, so I cannot.
Woody:balloons:
Do you mean that I can't practice medicine?? Prescribe scripts, treatments or to precept residents or interns? Darn, that broke my fantasy... (kidding of course)
Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.
Do you mean that I can't practice medicine?? Prescribe scripts, treatments or to precept residents or interns? Darn, that broke my fantasy... (kidding of course)
Sure you can. Just like I can. And what would you like for your meal, here in jail. I understand the cheese sandwiches are pretty good.
Do you mean that I can't practice medicine?? Prescribe scripts, treatments or to precept residents or interns? Darn, that broke my fantasy... (kidding of course)
If anyone needs their appendix removed I will charge a VERY minimal fee. Oh, and I will make sure you have a years supply of pain meds!!!!
At a new optometrist's office, I started out with testing (peripheral vision, etc., and a basline exam. As she was making notes on the chart, I asked if she were the doctor.
"No, I am the assistant."
"The assistant doctor? (never heard of on) "No, I assist the doctors but I will be going to nursing school in the fall."
Oh, so that gives you credentials to ask about my physical history, medication histery, family history, etc.?
At a new PCP, I was being checked for recovery from pneumonia. A woman comes in and sets up a breathing treatment. I ask her if she is a nurse/an MA? No, but she has worked there for 5 years and will be going to nursing school in the fall!
She is also the one who did office paperwork, chatted me up in the waiting room about my health and encouraged me to turn on the TV because "The View" was starting.
Whatever happened to name tags? I guess hers would have been "Whatever the Dr. Wants me to do"
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
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?????
:down:and i was an lpn with license and all, but i was forced to go on the inactive status because i'm too sick to work.
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Sure you can. Just like I can. And what would you like for your meal, here in jail. I understand the cheese sandwiches are pretty good.
Woody:balloons:
Well, a molded cheese sandwich is a delicacy! I hope to get all that I can get. And, with free lodgings, and plenty of room mates, I should feel right at home. I have lots to look forward to in my 'new' career:trout:
My mom had quadruple bypass at Mt. Sinai in New York two years ago. I traveled from Montana where I live to New York To care for her. I am a BSN, RN who practices in a frontier hospital. The hospital would not discharge her, she refused to have home health nurses come to the house. They discharged her to me. They did not ask to see my credentials.
She was one of the most difficult patients I ever had, until I learned to see the world through her eyes! I would suggest that we walk to the park bench. Mom would reply, "No, I don't feel like it!" I then said in passing,"...I wonder if Macy's has a pocketbook that would match my shoes, I was unable to find one in Missoula..."
It is amazing how you can strengthen a fresh post-op by checking out whats new around a mall!!!! Yet she wouldn't walk to the park!!! As it was getting time for me to leave, I made her show me that she could pick up a few items at the grocery store and the drug store. My threat was, "...if you can't take care of yourself, you will have to come home to Montana with me!
Oh, by the way, I have two brothers and a sister who live near Mom... and are hopelessly helpless!
pagandeva2000, LPN
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Do you mean that I can't practice medicine?? Prescribe scripts, treatments or to precept residents or interns? Darn, that broke my fantasy... (kidding of course)