chiropractor employee taking blood pressures

[sam1971]

So this is a new one....I was recently at a community event were I saw a table with a woman taking blood pressures and handing out literature. I got my blood pressure taken and asked her if she was a nurse. She said yes, she was the clinic nurse for the chiropractor she worked for. After further conversation, she told me she was neither a RN or LPN. She wasnt even a MA or CNA. Just someone working for a chiropractor taking blood pressures and passing themselves off as a "clinic nurse".

Just another example of how everyone is calling themselves a "nurse" without actually being one! Where does it end???

[kodc]

So this is a new one....I was recently at a community event were I saw a table with a woman taking blood pressures and handing out literature. I got my blood pressure taken and asked her if she was a nurse. She said yes, she was the clinic nurse for the chiropractor she worked for. After further conversation, she told me she was neither a RN or LPN. She wasnt even a MA or CNA. Just someone working for a chiropractor taking blood pressures and passing themselves off as a "clinic nurse".

Just another example of how everyone is calling themselves a "nurse" without actually being one! Where does it end???

Hopefully this will get corrected and is not being perpetuated by the employer.

I'm one of those quack chiropractors, as we are so frequently and lovingly referred to in this forum. I had an assistant send me an email with her title - "physical therapist". Heck, that was a quick educational program! Needless to say (or maybe needed) we had a meeting with the employee and office manager to explain about the meaning of a title and licensure. We then documented the training and had a little chuckle. Fortunately she had only "conferred" upon herself the degree that day, adding it to her email signature. We didn't have to do any outside damage control.

Each profession has their skill set. This can be limited to the education and examinations needed for initial license. Or we can take advantage of further educational opportunities as is expected with continuing ed and other training we may pursue.

---not related to the original post. Rather, those following as well as throughout conversations on this forum---

This whole "chiros" are nuts, MDs are jerks, and PAs are (you pick it), is tiresome. These kinds of comments remind me of the same thing my wife goes through (so will I with the addition of nursing knowledge and credentials) because she's an under-educated nurse "that should only" hand out meds, take temps, and wipe backsides. She's not a BSN, NP, DNP, MD, DO, DC, PT, PA, etc. Hopefully you get the picture. Those making the comments are just folks that would rather look and speak ill of another profession than find something positive to do.

Yes, there are less-than-optimal providers in all professions, at all levels. It is very unfortunate. But, negativity is just that - negativity. I'd much rather work to make sure our patients' needs are best served from every angle. But, take that for what it's worth (to you). I'm not here to convince anyone. Just the ramblings of a silly back cracker.

KO

[crimsonsky]

Just wanted to say that I'm a chiropractor and I check BPs. If a patient has a BP in the range that you mentioned, I send them to the ER and follow up with their PCP to notify them of the HTN. Not all chiropractors would prescribe guava juice in a case like that. Just as you don't like your profession misrepresented neither do I.

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

Agreed. I taught my 12 year old how to (which was great until he dismantled my bp cuff just to "see how it worked" good thing I don't need that one anymore). Blood pressure is not a skill limited to licensed nurses.

The title of nurse is limited to nursing professionals

off topic post, slightly...

i taught my four year old niece many decades ago,

in in her thirties, actually late thirties, when back to school and got ADN, passed Nclex, and three years later, obbtained her BSN 😺

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

I have a dear friend who is both a chiropractor, and RN,

i I worked with an RN, who was a chiropractor for decades, then pursuing FNP program í ½í¸

[nursekaren3535]

This is not surprising to me at all. The chiropractic profession has a long history and it is not pretty. It is mostly riddled with deception and pseudoscience.