DelaneyB

I definitely understand your point. Again, I live on the border and grew up in South America. It's not like these people are scum of the earth awful and undeserving. They were very loving to me to the most part. My grandmother doesn't even speak English, her whole community is spanish speaking. All groups of people have good and bad, and I just unfortunately think that negatives outweigh the positives. I do think it's scummy the way they are taken advantage of because of their lack of education/knowledge of the language. I've seen despicable things. Of course any patient should be given a translator ans have things thoroughly explained.

Unpopular opinion...but I believe that if the patient is undocumented, especially if they are costing the exponentially high amount a hospital stay is, immediate deportation is necessary. They are contributing nothing. Yes, we need to be human and not be mean/angry to the person we are taking care of but as soon as we are made aware of undocumented status they should be made to leave the hospital/country. I say that as a daughter of an immigrant who grew up in a third world country as an American. This country is starting to look like that third world country, especially in areas with high concentrations of minorities. And situations like that cost us an unimaginable amount. In the nursing home I work at (border town) we have undocumented immigrants taking up beds. It's an extremely well ran, well staffed facility. Because the beds are being filled with non citizens, citizens are forced to go to crappy neglectful places.

no, she was a CNA. she never misrepresented herself, she had "CNA" on her door. But we all called her nurse. For example, "good morning nurse Sheila" or "Go to Nurse Sheila for a band-aid" and as a child/teen it never made much difference. She took my temperature, patched me up, etc. No "real" nurse ever made rounds. If there was an emergency, of which I remember one or two, EMS were called. And I understand the issue with somebody in a hospital or office calling themselves a nurse, I wouldn't want that either. It was just that online it seemed so petty. Somebody calling themselves "NurseBetty" when they were a student on a nursing forum seemed cute and unoffensive. I am not so protective, maybe because like a different poster said, nursing school comes easy to some people and it comes easy to me. I work full time as well and it's not an issue. Maybe once I'm actually licensed it will change. :)

Soooo I *actually* read the terms of service for the first time and that was good to know. I'm sorry I was so fiery. It just seemed like you all were trying to be aggressive or belittling instead of what I guess you were actually trying to do. I went to school in a small town and our school nurse was referred to as a "nurse" even though she was a CNA and nobody cared and that's kind of another thing that made me think it was so mean they way y'all attacked people about the username cause it seemed to trivial. i don't mind. I only finished my second year of nursing school so i guess I don't have a good understanding. I mean it's hard, but when my classmates complain or treat the CNAs bad I don't understand. Anyway I guess this is all moot because like i said I finally read terms of service.

I was reading a post earlier. Normally I love to do that, when I get some downtime I am entertained/educated by posts here and I enjoy it. However I saw something on here that bothered me. It is a recurring theme. A user said that since a poster was a nursing student and not a nurse she should change her username. I see that a lot here, other users telling posters to change their name because they are students, or CNAs, etc. Does that really bother you??? It's not like it's that big of a deal. If I was a culinary student I would call myself DelaneyBaker and it would be fine. If I was an engineering student I would call myself DelaneyEngineer. It wouldn't be a big deal. Y'all act as if there aren't millions and millions of nurses in the world and are so prideful. It's not that hard to be a nurse. People from dinky little schools are "nurses". People who did things completely online are "nurses". It isn't a big deal. I don't know why this riled me up so much but it did. Sorry for the rant.