Each job title wears it's own color.

[borzoilady]

We are being told by our administrators that if all the RNs in the Hospital wear one color, the LPNs one color, NAs one color, etc. that it will improve "willingness to recommend" because pts will be able to tell who is caring for them, who they are talking to, etc. Our VP of Pt Care Services is saying that this is "studied and proven" and is becoming the standard throughout the country. Any comments?

[RNKel, ASN, RN]

RN = registered nurse = (slang) Real Nurse

LPN = Licensed pracital nurse = (slang) Little Pretend Nurse.

It's a "joking" way to disparage LPN's.

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You're the only/first person I've ever heard use that term.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

RN = registered nurse = (slang) Real Nurse

LPN = Licensed pracital nurse = (slang) Little Pretend Nurse.

It's a "joking" way to disparage LPN's.

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You're the only/first person I've ever heard use that term.

Really? I've heard it too often.

[Scrubby]

RN = registered nurse = (slang) Real Nurse

LPN = Licensed pracital nurse = (slang) Little Pretend Nurse.

It's a "joking" way to disparage LPN's.

LPNs are already marginalized enough by the biggest nurses' organization in the nation not even recognizing them as nurses let alone boards of nursing increasingly lessening their scope of practice. It offends me that a right they earned, to wear the whites that in the US have always distinguished nurses, period, from other hospital employees, is being taken away from them by some employers.

If one doesn't want to wear it, fine. But a NURSE should have the right to.

Ahhh now I get what you mean. Enrolled nurses tend to face the same issues here in Australia.

But as for wearing white, while it seems to be traditional surely it's not that practical?

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Scrubby, I don't care if people wear fuschia. I want LPN's to RETAIN the RIGHT to wear white if they WANT TO if RN's in that facility may.

See the difference?

:)