Calling yourself an RN

Are you going to do anything about it?

Have you confronted her about it? Is it illegal in your state?

that is why I posted because I not sure what can be done. Is it only illegal in certain states??

Well, you could post on her wall "Hey Sally, it bothers me that you are calling yourself an RN when you are actually housekeeping staff. That might actually be illegal. " or you could post it on your wall and tag her, so she can see the comment but not delete it. Or you could report her to your HR department. Particularly if she has her employer listed in her profile, they would be interested in knowing she's misrepresenting her role at your facility.

I'd send her a private message first before blasting it all over both walls. Give her the benefit of the doubt -perhaps she didn't know the possible repercussions.

I'd send her a private message first before blasting it all over both walls. Give her the benefit of the doubt -perhaps she didn't know the possible repercussions.

Certainly that would be the nice thing to do.

However, it seems that everyone and their mommas can claim to be nurses with little or no repercussions. Members of these other professions will call impostors out on the carpet for faking and shaking. It is time for nursing to get with the program.

Great post, Commuter. Lol @ "faking and shaking". That's exactly what it is.

It is illegal to claim to be a nurse unless you have a license. LPN, RN and NP are the only ones allowed to call themselves Nurses, any other person would be infringing the law under "Fraud", is just like you cant call yourself lawyer, engineer, physician , CIA agent, etc.

People need to start calling out those that misrepresent themselves and end up causing confusion on the public. As a professional it is our duty to watch out for the reputation of our profession, and to make sure only members can identify themselves as such, or next time claim to be an Architect to a group in an Architect Office and let me know how that goes.

I haven't spoken to her personally about it but others have said she tells people she just let her license expire. I checked nursys for our state and their is no license not even inactive.

I'd almost feel sorry for her. That's just flat-out delusional. Of course, she should be called out on it, but I'd try to do so kindly... at least at first.

We had to try on uniforms that our hospital was ordering. One of our "RN" CNAs tried on the nurse color, then went into the bathroom and took a bunch of pictures of himself with his badge flipped over. He's been posting them on the internet with stories about how he "saves lives". Amazing...

In fact, about half of our CNAs claim to be "nurses" on the internet. One of them actually told me that being a nurse is about how you carry yourself, not about what education or license you have.

I try to gently correct them, because I honestly feel sorry for them. They're just making themselves look like delusional fools, because everyone knows that they're liars. 99% of them are excellent at what they do and have no reason to feel ashamed, but they do for some reason. I don't get it.

I've never seen a housekeeper claim to be an RN, but I'm not surprised. They do wear scrubs, after all. That's what it takes, right?