Pet Peeve

Nurses General Nursing

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Please bear with me, but I really need to say this! My pet peeve is when people say to me, "Oh, you got your RN degree." Or "So and so is going for their RN."

Hello, people! When you go to school, you earn a diploma (not so common anymore) or a degree (such as an ADN, BSN, MSN, etc). Becoming a Registered Nurse involves taking the NCLEX exam, passing and becoming licensed by the state. It is THEN that you BECOME a Registered Nurse.

Ok, thanks for letting me vent. DH teases me about this peeve all the time, but I can't help it. Just because someone earns their ADN does not mean that they have permission to practice as a Registered Nurse.

I feel much better now!;)

Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care, Gero, dementia.

Why is it that there are Medical Students, but we have Student Nurses? Seems like more of the demeaning of the profession.

If they want to be medical students great, but call my students nursing students!

although I have heard "sontimeters" before, I googled it and looked it up in tabers and got nada!!

That is because it is a PRONUNCIATION - it is not spelled that way. It is the way some people pronounce the word centimeters - not the way they spell it, not a different word, just the way they pronounce it.

Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

I hate "whenever" like "whenever I was younger I..."

It's "when"! Just "when"..otherwise I hear you saying "the many times I was younger (or whatever), I..." It drives me crazy :angryfire

Specializes in Geriatrics, Transplant, Education.
Why is it that there are Medical Students, but we have Student Nurses? Seems like more of the demeaning of the profession.

If they want to be medical students great, but call my students nursing students!

My name badge for nursing school called me Nursing Student. We also signed our documentation as such.

My name badge for my job as a tech calls me Student Nurse. Either way doesn't really bug me, personally. My work badge usually makes patients stop and ask when I'll be done with school, etc. I don't find it demeaning at all. But that's just me.

Specializes in Med-Surg, Psych.

Staff who walk into the nursing station and just start talking, so that nurses who are trying to concentrate on their work have to try to figure out who they are talking to.

People who talk to you while you are setting up meds or administering meds.

Staff who leave a mess at the desks, as if other staff don't need clean areas to do their work on the next shift.

Staff who come in early and sit down at the only clean desk area - clean because I cleaned it and am working there!

Why is it that there are Medical Students, but we have Student Nurses? Seems like more of the demeaning of the profession.

If they want to be medical students great, but call my students nursing students!

Y'know, I actually kind of liked being called a "student nurse" when I was in school. Made me feel like I was already a nurse, kind of. "Hi, I'm kiszi, I'll be your student nurse today." As opposed to "Hi, I'm kiszi, your nursing student for the day." :wink2:

I hate it when people put pocessive apostories in the wrong place. Sure, I can't spell for crap, but I know where the ' go!!

uman instead of Human. A teacher of mine in high school used this and it was a class called humans and their environment so she used it a lot.

Smoking sensation (aka-cessation) teaching...

It's like nails down a chalkboard!

Specializes in Med/Surg.

people not being "phased" by something..

it's fazed

Specializes in PACU.
people not being "phased" by something..

it's fazed

Maybe they're making reference to the fact that they weren't shot with a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

;)

Specializes in Homecare Peds, ICU, Trauma, CVICU.

When I was a nursing student my instructer used the word "sontimeters" frequently. I had never heard the word before, and for months, months I tell you, I was sooooo confused. I was asking everyone (except the teacher) what a sontimeter was, the length of a sontimeter, I was looking it up on the internet and of course could find no such measurement.

I swear I was half way through my PN program when she handed me a disposable measuring paper and told me to measure how many "sontimeters" the pts wound was. The light bulb went off! It's centimeters!! Man did I feel stupid. :confused:

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