why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

[murseforever]

As I was taking care of a pt, she mentions she's also a nurse. I asked what her specialty is and where she works at. She says she works at a clinic as an MA. In my head, in what universe is an MA a nurse?!

[Gcossio]

Thanks I tried to clarify and I do type slow as well lol..ps he is a she... just saying lol

[Farawyn]

Thanks I tried to clarify and I do type slow as well lol..ps he is a she... just saying lol

Sorry, Homer's Skull Girl. I assume everyone looks like their avatar.

[ixchel]

Another CNA I work with claims that being a nurse is "all about how you carry yourself, not what education you have".

They say dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.

This was me on Monday, incidentally.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

Thank you, exactly...I'm pretty new to this forum world and how it works and to top it off I'm using my phone ...coming into the new tech I suppose lol, but yea thank you for clarifying my post hate to be the new kid and have enemies already lol I'm looking to y'all for my guidance to achieve my lvn licences...

We would be glad to be of help, but please, could you use punctuation and sentence structure in the future?

Text speak and Twitter style posts are technically not allowed and might tick some people off.

[Farawyn]

ixchel. A clown? I can't even "like" you. And cuts me. Deeply.

[Nurse Leigh]

ixchel. A clown? I can't even "like" you. And cuts me. Deeply.

Add a spider to the pic and I'd be curled in the fetal position, sucking my thunb, rocking back and forth and mumbling incoherently.

[Farawyn]

Add a spider to the pic and I'd be curled in the fetal position, sucking my thunb, rocking back and forth and mumbling incoherently.

*pulls thumb out of my mouth to reply*

Stay with me.

[ixchel]

You people need normal, well-adjusted, reasonable phobias. Like midgets/dwarves and identical twins.

[Gcossio]

Maybe I should change my avatar...lol

[Farawyn]

You people need normal, well-adjusted, reasonable phobias. Like midgets/dwarves and identical twins.

You still have a dwarf phobia after GOT? That's not what you told meeeeeeee......

LOL identical twins! I forgot about that.

[cracklingkraken, ASN, RN]

You people need normal, well-adjusted, reasonable phobias. Like midgets/dwarves and identical twins.

I never knew midget phobia was a real thing but there's a girl who has it in our program. It's the most unusual thing. People have phobias about literally everything.

[Farawyn]

I never knew midget phobia was a real thing but there's a girl who has it in our program. It's the most unusual thing. People have phobias about literally everything.

Clowns. Dolls. Closed MRIs.