Nursing Education, Not Training!!

[scoochy]

I have been a nurse for thirty-one years. Throughout this time, I have had many people ask me, "Where did you do your nurse's training?" This question pushes my SVR way over the edge. I want to respond, " I went to the AKC Kennel Club," but I politely reply, "I received my EDUCATION from___________," emphasizing the word education. I am sure there is no ill intent, but the word "training," in my opinion, is not synonymous with the word education. How do you feel about this question?

[lcprnc]

"Training" and "Education" are not synonyms. If you really want to know the difference, put the word "sex" before training or education. You will then know the difference. (Would you like your kid to attend a sex training or sex education?)

[elkpark]

I, too, am a diploma graduate, but I also had to take college courses along with clinicals. The question is just a pet peeve of mine. We all have them.... Thanks for your post!

My program, also, had all the courses except the actual nursing courses taught through a local college, and we took the same science courses as the college's premed, chem, and bio majors (we were in class with them). But we learned a heck of a lot more about nursing than students do in the ADN or BSN programs in which I've taught since then.

[Conqueror+, BSN, RN]

Seriously ?

[mamamerlee, LPN]

Scoochy - I hope this is the worst thing that bothers you! I've been a nurse for 36 years, and never considered this an issue, at all.

There are some very educated nurses who should never be allowed near patients. Then they become our managers......

[happy2learn]

"Training" and "Education" are not synonyms.

Training is the activity of imparting and acquiring skills

Education - The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment

Synonym means they are similar. Not exactly alike, they do not have to have the exact same definitions.

Synonyms for education:apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding(really??), catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring

Synonyms for training: background, basics, buildup, chalk talk, coaching, cultivation, discipline, domestication, drill, education, exercise, foundation, grounding, groundwork, guidance, indoctrination, instruction, practice, preliminaries, principles, readying, schooling, seasoning, sharpening, teaching, tuition, tune-up, tutelage, upbringing, warm-up, workout

There are many words you would not put behind "sex" to replace education. It's all about the context of the sentence. Of course, it's funny to try.

Anyways, the point of the thread, there are many other things to worry about. I highly doubt they are trying to be disrespectful. With all the "career training" schools that advertise on TV for nursing, this is probably where they think of "training."

[scoochy]

Scoochy - I hope this is the worst thing that bothers you! I've been a nurse for 36 years, and never considered this an issue, at all.

There are some very educated nurses who should never be allowed near patients. Then they become our managers......

This question is a pet peeve of mine; we all have them, for sure!

[Moogie]

(Would you like your kid to attend a sex training or sex education?)

I think I know which one my kids would prefer, but that's too much of a thread drift...

[Moogie]

In all seriousness, getting an education often seems like an exercise in jumping through hoops, so maybe in that respect, "training" is a more apt description. I love learning and I am committed to being a life-long learner but I could live with just a few less hoops in my journey. Hoops belong in skirts and circuses, not in nursing education.