Nurse, Madonna, and waitress??

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Just wondering how many of you got the impression that too much of the general public's view of nurses seems unrealistically high or on the other side, they treat us with the same disdain as gum on the bottom of one's shoe. Not patients, more like visitors or in social circles.

Specializes in CVICU.

I dunno. Whenever I tell people that I'm an RN student, I get a myriad of positive responses. "That's such an honorable career.", "That's a noble career choice.", "That's a choice to be proud of." I actually posted a lengthy Facebook status about this a few weeks ago. I've never told someone I was going to school for nursing and been met with a negative response.

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Specializes in MDS/ UR.

I get no real reaction in this time of my life and career.

It is usually just a passing topic with new people.

When I was a student nurse, it was always an ice breaker from people thinking you are a sex toy or an angel in training.

Fellow nurses don't see me as a 'real' nurse anymore because I am a 'paper pusher' for insurance and government.

However, I have let the ire go as I know my skillset and duties wield a lot of influence in the bottom line of keeping things open and running.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

My favorite is the patient who starts things with how he comes from a whole family of nurses and loveloveloves him some nurses because they are so kind and such angels and sooooooooo sympathetic....and proceeds to whine and fuss and act very childlike, very demanding and helpless....until some boundaries are set and now nurses are uncaring *********.......

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Specializes in EDUCATION;HOMECARE;MATERNAL-CHILD; PSYCH.

During a family thanksgiving dinner two years ago, one of my cousins who is a family practitioner/attending, got drunk and made a general announcement to the family that nurses are just maids for the doctors, and that nurses cannot think for themselves.

This cousin has not been invited back to another family thanksgiving dinner, and he is going through a bad breakup with his nurse wife.

I guess you can't pick your family!!!

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Specializes in CVICU.
During a family thanksgiving dinner two years ago, one of my cousins who is a family practitioner/attending, got drunk and made a general announcement to the family that nurses are just maids for the doctors, and that nurses cannot think for themselves.

Yeah, and we all know where Family Practice falls on the food chain of specialties in medicine.:angrybird1:

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Specializes in None yet..
Good idea!!! Let's look for band members...:smokin:

I'll play the bedpan!

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Specializes in Emergency Room, Trauma ICU.
I'll play the bedpan!

Hopefully a new and clean one!!!

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The babysitter. Yeah, that's what I went to college for, to be called the babysitter.

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Good idea!!! Let's look for band members...:smokin:

I can sing (like Carol Channing)!

And play drums (like a chimpanzee on crack)!

Can I be in the band (noise makers in white)?

:singing:

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
Good idea!!! Let's look for band members...:smokin:

I'm a singer, and can play a mean cowbell! More cowbell?? :cheeky:

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Specializes in Emergency Room, Trauma ICU.
I'm a singer, and can play a mean cowbell! More cowbell?? :cheeky:

Hey it will help with all those fevers!!

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Specializes in None yet..
Hopefully a new and clean one!!!

Yoiks, I didn't even consider any other option until I read your comment. Now I'm thinking of those instruments that are glasses filled with various levels of water....

I swear, working in health care is pushing me toward the socially unacceptable line. Bodily functions and death-and-dying, the social taboos, are at least half of every working day.

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