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I found out yesterday that I passed boards and am now a Registered Nurse :) Soooo excited!!! If I wasn't sick, I'd be jumping up and down and screaming! :p

Anyway, I've been browsing online and looking at some Nurse things like: Bumper Stickers, License Plate Frames, Mugs, Magnets, etc.

I really want to get something that says I'm a nurse (other than my license), and I'm just trying to figure out what to buy. Do you think putting something on the car is tacky?

Did you buy anything?

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Someone did a study (I read the article in nursing school) that concluded it's bad to put RN stuff on your car or otherwise identify yourself as a nurse to strangers because it makes you the object of criminal attention more often.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I haven't actually bought anything yet but I have been looking.. I will be ordering something soon though:)

Congrats and Happy Nursing:nurse:

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Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

I just have a sticker from my college of nursing on my car's back window. You could have your stethoscope engraved with RN after your name :nurse: Congrats on passing boards!

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We were advised not to have any thing on our car that identifies us as a nurse....

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Specializes in Hospice, LTC, Rehab, Home Health.

I bought and use a pin holder and tac pin that say RN on them. My school pin is on the pin holder so I don't weaken the clasp taking it off and putting it on my uniform. I agree that it is a bad idea to put anything on your car that identifies you as a nurse. That includes hanging your stethoscope or lanyard with your badge on it over your rear view mirror.

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Someone did a study (I read the article in nursing school) that concluded it's bad to put RN stuff on your car or otherwise identify yourself as a nurse to strangers because it makes you the object of criminal attention more often.

This is what I was wondering too! Thank you for sharing! I guess I'll just buy something for myself then.... trying to think of what.

http://www.cafepress.com/+dont_mess_with_me_rectangle_magnet,128992496

I thought this magnet was kind of funny.

http://www.cafepress.com/+rn_class_of_2010_ceramic_travel_mug,438776215

Nice keepsake

http://www.cafepress.com/+nurse_wall_clock,336150595

Something for the office?

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I agree, stick to something personal and not public. I got a charm for my (now unused) charm bracelet.

Buy yourself something nice you'll keep - and CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!:hpygrp:

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I just have a sticker from my college of nursing on my car's back window. You could have your stethoscope engraved with RN after your name :nurse: Congrats on passing boards!

Oh, I like that idea :) Mine just has my name on it right now.

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Specializes in Peri-Op.

I got a name badge from my hospital that said I had a job as an RN. :)

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Specializes in Peri-Op.

oh and my pretty state license is still in the fedex envelope it got delivered to me in. lol So is my CNOR certificate..... stacked next to the TV in a cabinet. Im not very sentimental.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

Ok, forgive my air head state of mind right now...but why would putting anything on your car that refers to your being a nurse make you a target for criminals? Because they think you have drugs in the car? Because that is the new thing for gang initiation (a friend of mine was killed a few years ago while stopping to get gas one morning because she was wearing scrubs and a local gang was targeting medical personnel for initiation), or because they know you have insurance? Enlighten me, O Allnurses members! (And should I take my Yale medical sticker off my car??)

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