Introduced as "The Nurse"

[NurseLatteDNP]

Do you ever go places with your family, and they introduce you as "the nurse" or "the RN"?

I have just graduated last week and my husbands family took me several places (restaurants, church, family reunion) this weekend. When it was time to introduce me to the new people, I was introduced like this:

"This is my daughter in law - the RN". OK, first I was correcting them saying that I am not an RN yet. Then it got old after the first 10 times. Then I thought it was funny. I mean those people don't know my name or anything else about me, but they know that I am an "RN". I guess that has become my name now. I know that they are proud of me, because nobody in their family has ever went to college, so I am honored by that.

How about you guys? Am I alone with this?

[FroggieLiz]

Wow, I thought I was the only one dealing with this...Not so much my family, but my inlaws do it (my mom will tell them I'm in nursing school if they ask or if something requires them to know it). Sadly, I get very frustrated with my MIL for doing this.

My MIL will tell everyone she meets, "My daughter in law is a nurse." If I'm standing right there, she will introduce me as, "This is my dil, she's a nurse!" I haven't lost my whatever it is, yet, and still EVERY TIME follow up right behind her, "Hi, I'm Liz. I'm not a nurse, yet; I'm just in nursing school."

And, they call me all the time with a new ailment that I am supposed to diagnose over the phone and tell them how to treat it ("I have an ache in my right knee..well, it's not my knee exactly, but right around there..." on the phone, it's rather funny to get a visual of them pointing to the spot).

I suppose I should feel honored, but really, I just feel frustrated.

[crackerjack]

I have a different take on 'the nurse' situation. My 14yo who is going through that obnoxious stage where he can't 'confess' to likeing anything I do or say or anything else remotely associated with me...God forbid...made the mistake of confessing "my mom, the nurse...I never get tired of saying that." With him being the baby, mildly autistic and trying so hard to 'look/act like one of the regular kids' and doing it to an extreme overkill, the other son being 16next week it's really an ego boost to hear something like that accidentally slip out.:monkeydance::w00t: :w00t:

[cheshirecat]

OK, this is a funny one. When I got engaged to my husband, my mother in law put an annoucement in her local paper. It read

The engagement is annouced between Flt. Lt. ****and Sister ****.

In the UK then, charge nurses where called Sister. Boy, was I embarrassed, and it also looked as if my boyfriend was marrying a nun!!!

[nursesaideBen]

Lordy, I graduate this thurs. from LPN school and whenever I go ANYWHERE with my grandparents they make sure that everyone knows that I'm a nursing student lol I just hate it when I go with them to the Dr. the nurse walks in and that's the first thing out of their mouths lol lordy I hate that.

[ShayRN]

The engagement is annouced between Flt. Lt. ****and Sister ****.

In the UK then, charge nurses where called Sister. Boy, was I embarrassed, and it also looked as if my boyfriend was marrying a nun!!!

:lol2: :lol2:

[jelorde37]

yeah, happens to me all the time. all my family and friends know me as "the nurse". it feels weird at first, but you get used to it. im sure that your loved ones are just really proud of you.

jon lvn

[chuchie, ADN, BSN, MSN, LPN, APRN, NP]

I get introduced all the time by my parents as "The Nursing Student" and it doesn't bother me that bad since I have gotten used to it. The only thing that bothers me is when there is a nasty mess (like my brother's drunk friends puking in our bathroom) and they want me to clean it up "Since I'm going to be a nurse anyways!"

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

My family did this when I first graduated . . . it was just that they were proud of me. I didn't really mind.

No one does it now. It has been nine years. I kinda miss it.

I'm grateful I'm loved.

steph

[tryin4newlife]

so funny - I am just finishing school, and I have the same situations. In addition I get calls from family members all the time giving me a bunch of symptoms and trying to get a diagnosis. I always tell them that "medical diagnosis" is not (or rather will not) be within my scope of practice.

[TazziRN, RN]

My brother was in ICU after being ejected in an accident. After a couple of days I went back to work and took all my breaks in the unit. I was taking a monitored pt to his room and my parents were in the alcove that was the ICU waiting room between visits. My mom (tiny little Korean woman, speaks broken English) saw me coming and got all excited, started flapping her hand at the other people sitting there and said rather loudly, "That nurse....she my daughter! My daughter!"

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

My brother was in ICU after being ejected in an accident. After a couple of days I went back to work and took all my breaks in the unit. I was taking a monitored pt to his room and my parents were in the alcove that was the ICU waiting room between visits. My mom (tiny little Korean woman, speaks broken English) saw me coming and got all excited, started flapping her hand at the other people sitting there and said rather loudly, "That nurse....she my daughter! My daughter!"

And that is love . . . . and love can be messy. I can just see your mom . . . :balloons:

I'll take that over (well, your thread about abandonment).

steph

[txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN]

for the 32 years i have been on this earth ;i have never been called by my name when it comes to family and friends ..they have always called me "ben's daughter".. my dad is one of those people that knows everyone every where...he is very respected and very well liked...when i graduated nursing school in 1999 , i thought for sure i would get at least some respect or maybe people could start calling me by my name...but now i'm known as "ben's daughter , the nurse":uhoh3::uhoh3: