Do Nurses Get Traffic Tickets?

[rachelita]

We were having a discussion at work where one nurse stated she always hung her RN work ID from her rear view mirror in case she got pulled over. She said once the law enforcement officer saw that she was an RN, he/she would not ticket her. Another nurse said she got out of tickets by saying she had been called into work. Lol... she said this even worked when she was driving in the opposite direction of the hospital. A male coworker questioned whether this applied to males as well. I have not gotten pulled over (knock on wood) in the 4 years I have a nurse, so this was news to me. :redpinkheJust curious...what are your experiences with being pulled over as a nurse?

[bell1962]

Pulled over once for passing on the right side of a car turning left. Told the cop I was a nurse on my way to do physicals for the fire dept when he asked me. No ticket

[AlaBro2010]

i just got a ticket today, from getting home from work for speeding, I'm sorry but I'm a night shift nurse, if i go too slow i will fall asleep on the wheel so i go faster than i should, i got pulled over, begged the officer to give me a verbal warning, i had my uniform and RN badge still on and he still gave me a ticket, plus in the back of my car it says, be nice to me, i may be your nurse one day!, he still gave me at ticket, this the second one in a year I've gotten them and i have had no mercy, since I've been a nurse.... so yes nurses do get tickets:sour:

Happened to me as well, dying to get home from a bad day in full scrubs and badge, I was very respectful but hey I did break the law so off I went with a ticket and 4 points on my license. I have been a good girl since then, that was last April.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

I don't know if my being a nurse would make a difference in my getting a ticket as I don't play the nurse card in these situations (I also don't play the "family are cops/in the military" card either). If I get the ticket, it's likely because I did something to deserve it. If I don't, I'm damn lucky and shouldn't ever take it for granted.

So I try my hardest to behave on the road to avoid getting pulled over in the first place.

[ChipNurse]

I just got pulled over on my way home from work a couple days ago. I was going 80 in a 60 and I had my scrubs on and name badge on. The officer asked why I was in such a hurry and I blurted out "I really have to use the bathroom!" (Which was true. I just didn't feel like being at work 1 more second and just waited til I got home). He laughed and asked where I was coming from. Turns out his wife works at my hospital and he let me off with a warning :)

[lolakbolak]

If you are cute and you use those lashes and wink at them then no. But when you are coming back home in the morning you are worn out, the last thing you need is to be pulled over

[Paws2people]

Yes they do. At my hospital they pull you over in the parking lot for "speeding."

[Ruas61, BSN, RN]

Only if they get caught!

[CannondaleRN]

Of course! Any one committing a moving violation can expect a ticket. Often the cop will give a warning but I don't think nurses should expect that every time. I heard sometimes the deputy will give a warning to teachers too.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I've never used the. "I'm a nurse " card. I would be embarrassed to do so. The last two times I've gotten pulled over for speeding was directly outside hospital grounds, so they knew I was a hospital employee. The first time I was leaving in the AM, wearing scrubs and it was obvious I was a nurse. I didn't have my wallet with me, but if knew my license# by heart and asked if I could give him the number. He said that in his 20 years as a cop, he had never had a person be able to recite their license number to him, and I think that is why he gave me a warning.

Second time, I think he may have been hitting on me. Gave me a warning, gave me his card, and told me to call him for any reason.

[Karou]

The only time I have been pulled over I was wearing scrubs and received a ticket. I had been on my way to class.

I ran a red light as I was driving behind a large truck. It was at a four way intersection with a red light camera that didn't flash, but a cop saw me and pulled me over. I was 20 years old and like an idiot, pulled over to the left of the road against a median instead of the right. Cop was nice enough and had a new guy with him that he was training. When he asked me if I had been in a hurry, I instantly started crying. Not sobbing but with silent tears and uncontrollable lip quivering, voice cracking. I was mortified and embarrassed. He apologized, told me if he wasn't training someone then he wouldn't have ticketed me. It was a moving violation so I could do defensive driving.

What was awful was that a classmate from my hometown saw my car and pulled over across the median (remember I was on the left... ) and she asked if I has okay, thinking my car had broken down. I was puffy faced and red eyed. By the time I got to class everyone knew.

I have never been pulled over since.

Coworkers have had good luck not getting tickets while in scrubs, but none of them asked not to.

[NurseOnAMotorcycle, ASN, RN]

This is somewhat off the topic, but this story always makes me smile

One night, while I was as work, the house supervisor called every nurses station in the facility to ask if Dr @#$% had been paged. I work in a small hospital so it didn't take long to figure out no one had paged him. She later told us, a state trooper had called the hopital, because he had a car pulled over and the doc said he was speeding because he needed to get to a phone because he had been paged. The doc was the most arrogant, abusive one on staff. Needless to say, he got the ticket.

I love state troopers.

HA HA HAHAHA!!

[lacusc93-1]

In California the CHP will ticket their own parents. Local agencies can be a bit more lenient especially if you work Er. As previously mentioned don't count on it.