Last week I had to take my father to an urgent care clinic while he was visiting me from out of state. We were both in the exam room when a woman walks in and introduces herself. "Hi, I'm Jane (not her real name) and I'm the nurse". Even her name tag said "Nurse" under it. After she got done taking my dad's VS, I asked her where she went to nursing school since I am currently in nursing school at a college close by. She started stumbling over her words and eventually told me that she had not gone to school at all and wasn't a nurse. She's not even a certified nursing assistant. She simply had received on-the-job training to be doing what she was doing.
As a nursing student who is working extremely hard to earn the title of "Nurse" I was furious! And if she's wearing a name tag that was issued from her from her place of employment, they should be ashamed for misrepresenting this woman as a nurse to their patients. Isn't this illegal, or at least unethical? Am I just over reacting here?
i was not!? im so confused as to why people like yourself have to probe on nursing students...and cause them to defend themselves for doing absolutely nothing wrong??? spamming? what the heck is that?? this is redic...
i did nothing wrong in responding to this thread...people who picked apart everything i said (like in the last blog i responded to just cause im student...same exact issue!!) are the ones who need to quit! is anyone else reading this? what did i do so wrong here?!?!
I wonder how many of these MDs calling their staff nurses would be happy with untrained people running around calling themselves doctors.
The bottom line is that the public deserves to know exactly who is taking care of them or their family members and exactly what they are trained to do.
I wonder how many of these MDs calling their staff nurses would be happy with untrained people running around calling themselves doctors.
The bottom line is that the public deserves to know exactly who is taking care of them or their family members and exactly what they are trained to do.
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i was not!? im so confused as to why people like yourself have to probe on nursing students...and cause them to defend themselves for doing absolutely nothing wrong??? spamming? what the heck is that?? this is redic...
i did nothing wrong in responding to this thread...people who picked apart everything i said (like in the last blog i responded to just cause im student...same exact issue!!) are the ones who need to quit! is anyone else reading this? what did i do so wrong here?!?!