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I was speaking at a home schooling conference this weekend, and struck up a conversation with a young lady who told me "I'm going to become a nurse practitioner AND a surgeon". I told her the terms are not interchangeable- and she informed me "Oh no, nurse practitioners are going to be doctors starting in 2015!!" I made a valiant attempt to explain the difference between a doctorate and a physician - but she apparently knows better then I :)

Specializes in ICU.

Hahahahahahaha

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I wonder if she thinks people with Phd's in art history can do surgery...

Of course they can PhD = Dr = Md.. Duh. :)

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

This is funny.

On a side note (kinda) my friend is a veterinarian and is always introducing herself as "Dr. Blah." She LOVES being a doctor. (Although I'm sure we'd all rather have her as a surgeon than, say, a PhD in Art Conservation!)

However, my ex boyfriend is a medical doctor and he HATED being called "doctor." One time our waitress found out he was a physician and she started asking him advice about her daughter in prison who had a blood clot or something. He wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

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Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.

About as sad as what I was asked recently at my in laws. My MIL asked me what RN's make around here, because some girl who is getting ready to start nursing school keeps telling her she will make $130,000 when she gets out of school (as an ADN). I really hope this chick is not THAT delusional.

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Specializes in hospice.

If I could make THAT MUCH as an RN, I would have told my husband there was no way in hell he was getting his MBA before I go to school! :eek:

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I have a family member who completed physical therapy school about a a year ago. She and her classmates when they first graduated constantly called themselves doctors and would post about it on facebook. After working for a year I think the ego has deflated some. The hospital she works at has made it very clear who is to be called doctor and it's not PTs...

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No - she thinks that DNP=MD - and that she will be a physician after completing NP school only. Mind you, she's in 'CNA school' right now, so it won't be anytime soon.....

And I bet once she gets her "CNA license" she'll say she's a nurse.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

On the flip side of this: I spoke to another young lady at this same conference (age 15, a high school sophomore) who engaged me in an intelligent discussion of the relative benefits of pursuing LPN>ADN>BSN through the local community college system and then WGU versus an entry-level BSN in terms of cost and time.

And she sincerely wanted to know if it was too soon to take anatomy and micro at the CC, or should she wait until she was a high school senior so it would be fresher in her mind going into clinicals! I would hire this second girl right now if she wasn't 15!

Oh, and when I asked her why she wanted to be a nurse, she said she felt called by God to serve her fellow man in this way. There is hope for the future!

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.
This is funny.

On a side note (kinda) my friend is a veterinarian and is always introducing herself as "Dr. Blah." She LOVES being a doctor. (Although I'm sure we'd all rather have her as a surgeon than, say, a PhD in Art Conservation!)

However, my ex boyfriend is a medical doctor and he HATED being called "doctor." One time our waitress found out he was a physician and she started asking him advice about her daughter in prison who had a blood clot or something. He wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Veterinarians and dentists are properly called "Doctor".

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Specializes in Management, Med/Surg, Clinical Trainer.
.... "I'm going to become a nurse practitioner AND a surgeon". I told her the terms are not interchangeable- and she informed me "Oh no, nurse practitioners are going to be doctors starting in 2015!!"......

I wonder if her second statement is going down the road of the healthcare bill. There has been a great deal of conversation around the enactment of the law in 2014, and how that will impact nursing. She may have been told that there will be a shortage in MDs and NPs will help fill that gap.

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Why didn't you need lead off your post with the much more positive second example/story? Unfortunately much too often online we accentuate the negative, and throw in occasional positive blurbs (if any at all) - it'd be great if the opposite were more true.

When I read the first story, Socrate's (so-crates) Test of Three came to mind. I fall short of it on a daily basis, but for online activities, where it's much easier to be negative because people are not communicating face-to-face, I try to apply the test when referring to people not involved directly in my communication.

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Why didn't you need lead off your post with the much more positive second example/story? Unfortunately much too often online we accentuate the negative, and throw in occasional positive blurbs (if any at all) - it'd be great if the opposite were more true.

When I read the first story, Socrate's (so-crates) Test of Three came to mind. I fall short of it on a daily basis, but for online activities, where it's much easier to be negative because people are not communicating face-to-face, I try to apply the test when referring to people not involved directly in my communication.

The story about the sensible 15 year old girl, though commendable, wouldn't have made for a terribly interesting thread. Like writing a short story about a man who drives home from work and nothing happens. Something's gotta happen. There's no substance.

But a grown woman who thinks that anyone with a doctorate level education degree

can perform surgery, now that's a bit more interesting.

The moral of Socrates' Test of Three is "don't gossip", it isn't "only tell positive, upbeat stories".

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