Do people treat you different when they find out you are a nurse?

[beachbutterfly]

I just recently started to experience this.Like sometimes when I reveal to people that I'm a graduate nurse they start to respect me more thinking I'm sitting on the gold mine or something,haha!!! Secretly I laugh it out since I know that nurses are not that rich and the job is by no means a glamorous job or prestigious job...

[RNperdiem, RN]

I get a neutral response.

Nursing is not perceived as anything special in an area with many hospitals.

[luvbug]

Do I get treated differently since I'm a nurse?

Well, when I was a computer systems analyst, nobody ever said, "Hey, can you look at this rash?"

:typing

even though I wasn't a computer analyst (I was a cashier at a department store) nobody ever asked me such questions either (Imagine that). But now wherever I go, I pretty much get asked some kind of medical question and actually feel kida stupid if I can't answer it. But sometimes I wanna say, I'm a nurse, remember? Not a doctor:nurse:

[fins]

I work in a neuro ICU - when people ask me health questions, I just tell them "let me drill a hole in your skull and stick a tube in your brain - then I'll be able to tell you exactly what's wrong." Oddly enough, I haven't had any takers yet.

[wishiwereanurse, BSN, RN]

the bank tellers used to look at me with weird faces because of when i deposit my paychecks...

so one day i walked in with scrubs on and my badge and after that they don't give me no weird faces anymore...

so far my community has no problem with me being an RN, but they are surprised that I am an RN at my age...

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

I get mixed responses. Some say that they could not do it themselves, others ask why aren't I an RN, others will begin to tell me about their ailments and I have to kindly refer them to their doctor.

I think that I have to change wearing my uniform in the streets because I have had people walk up to me and ask where they can be weighed, to read their PPDs, or "Can you tell what is wrong with me?". And, then, there are those that will shove their medication bottles at me and ask why they are taking them...I tell them that I have no chart before me to answer those questions on public buses...

I can say that it does draw attention.

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

God bless, do I ever. And since I got my NP, forGET it! My whole family bombards me with questions, my father (God love him, he paid for me to go to school, and I should not feel this way) is about to drive me to drink. All I hear about is the ailment du jour, even to the point of wanting me to look at samples (and I ain't talking paint colors, either). I'm sorry, there is not much in this world that'll gross me out, but I draw the line at my father's bowel habits. And what drives me the craziest is....I refuse to treat family (it's the law and just good sense where I live), and I will tell him to go to the doctor, to which he will reply "I hate to go all the time!" My question is, how is it any different to make him listen to it than it is me?

Boy, I feel better. Y'all may think I'm a raving B, but I feel better.

[arelle68]

I don't know if it is that people are treating me with more respect, or if I have more respect for myself. I felt like such a loser, and a nobody before when I tried to get a job, or a loan. Things are a lot better in a lot of ways for me, now that I'm an RN. I appreciate the Lord for blessing me with Nursing!

[beachbutterfly]

Ok guys this funny I even got a puppy for free when someone found out that I was a nurse!!!Haha I think public generally displays a lot of trust in nurses but I cant complain about that can I?!:redbeathe

[beachbutterfly]

I work in a neuro ICU - when people ask me health questions, I just tell them "let me drill a hole in your skull and stick a tube in your brain - then I'll be able to tell you exactly what's wrong." Oddly enough, I haven't had any takers yet.

Wow you are really straighforward arent you?! Haha teach me that cause I'm too nice for my own good!!!!!I think being little assertive wont hurt anyone!!!

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

Some people treat me with more respect? But most of my family members see it as pedestrian. I am not a "real thinker" like someone with a PhD is, so I am treated with more pats on the head than anything else.

Even my husband doesn't get respect and he's studying to be a PharmD. When he was considering an MD they STILL thought of it as a "tech" job, as he wasn't doing anything broad and profound to change the way the world sees something.

High standards, I guess.