Putting RN on license plate???

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Can anyone tell me if you are legally or ethically bound to stop at an accident scene if you put RN on your plates? I stop when I can but I don't stop if it is just me and my 5 year old in the car. I would like to personalize my plates as long as there isn't any legal implication tied into it. Any links would be much appreciated.

Wow.. I have had my vanity plates for years. I never considered my having the plates as making me better than anyone. I just loved reading the ones on the cars that passed me all the time. Some people are so witty and come up with some cute wording on their plates. I tried being witty at the License office, but everything I tried for was already taken. Surprisingly my name was available, so I have my first name and first letter of my last name on my plates. This wasn't what I really wanted, but all the witty things I thought I came up with were taken. I also have what is called a specialty plate. Mine have little handprints on them and the charity these plates support helps stop child abuse. I have to admit from reading all the posts in this thread I am wondering if it is smart to have personalized plates. Never even thought of any of the safety issues that could go along with having my personal information so publicly available.

An earlier posts brought up the issue of people slowing down when a cop has someone pulled over. I admit this used to seem silly to me, since the car was already pulled over. Missouri now has a law and you will see signs on the highway warning people to slow down or pull over for emergency vehicles. This all came about ,because there have been several law enforcement workers killed while outside of their car.

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OOPS!!! sorry about the double posting. I lurk most of the time and am still green when it comes to posting to a thread

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For me it would be very tempting for me to put RN on my license plate. After all, it would be quite an acheivement for me (and anyone else). However, there are some strange people out there. I'd be afraid that someone would see "RN", think female (which I am), and think easy target for assault.

Although I will be quite proud to announce I have my RN, I don't know if I'd put it on a car's plate for safety reasons.

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Why would anyone would want to do this? Whats the point?

These are included in the catagory known informally as vanity plates. I believe vanity is the key word.

Personally I do not want every tom dick and harry to know I am a nurse. When I am off duty I am off duty.

It is not so much that you must stop it is that every Joe including police officers out there expects you to stop and at time even demands it if they know you are a nurse. Some folks even feel that if you put it on you license it is because you want to stop. In somecases it is part of the hero complex.

I understand being proud of your profession. But pride does not need to display itself. People will figure out you are a nurse and a good one without you having to hang a sign in their face.

Personally I do not like vanity or specialized plates as they are officially called because police will tell you they are too easy to spot, remember and trace for the common citizen. or common criminal.

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I guess they guessed that we were a nurse and paramedic and they came over to our table and started asking a ton of questions! I guess recently their parents could't get health insurance and were in trouble and needed some advice. Okay, don't care at this point...not to mention I can't give any! Took FOREVER and a day to get them to leave..and sadly not before knowing both of their bowel schedules (and probelms), and asking for the best incontenence products!!!!!! UHGGGGG!

Reminds me. I lived in a very small community and when I graduated I did some volunteer blood pressure monitoriing at the local senior center.

I was acosted one day in the post office. this old lady in a very very loud voice started asking advise about her husband's bowel schedule.

everyone was staring. very embarrasing for me. Not the old lady in the least.

My husband and I would be in a restaurant or at some socal event and someone would decide it was perfectly ok to discuss the most vial of body functions at the table. Given I was a nurse this seemed to make it ok. I had to ask them to stop and do you know they could not even do that?

Where to people get their bad manners. And mind you these were not young rude kids. These were people of the gerneration that say the yournger people are rude. This older gerneration seems to think they are so skilled at good manners yet it seems to have the very worst manners.

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Wow I can't believe the overwhelming paranoia I'm reading. I really had no idea people felt this way. Perhaps I'm sheltered living in NJ.

I guess to each his/her own.

I agree. It must be a big, bad scary world for some of you. If someone is going to "get" me, they're going to get me because of the right circumstances, mainly opportunity. I just try to be prudent and cautious when I'm out and about, I feel no need to hide my professional identity for the sake of safety, I've never heard of a serial killer who targeted nurses.

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My feeling on using an "RN" plate to get out of a speeding ticket is like this....

If a policeman ends up in the ER and is my patient...I will do my job to the best of my ability to keep him safe and alive. That may involve unpleasant things..... the fact that he is a police officer does not matter to me.

On the same note, a policeman, by writing you a ticket, is doing his job to keep you safe and alive. It may be unpleasant, but the object is not to make your life hell (as putting in a foley may be)....but it serves a purpose.

If I am speeding, I deserve a ticket. Plain and simple. End of story.

This is from the daughter of a master sergeant of the Mississippi Highway Patrol (ret). I never "got out" of a ticket. Heck, I'd rather just take the ticket and not have Dad find out...:rolleyes:

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I understand being proud of your profession. But pride does not need to display itself. People will figure out you are a nurse and a good one without you having to hang a sign in their face.

Well said.

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Wow.. I have had my vanity plates for years. I never considered my having the plates as making me better than anyone. I just loved reading the ones on the cars that passed me all the time. Some people are so witty and come up with some cute wording on their plates. I tried being witty at the License office, but everything I tried for was already taken. Surprisingly my name was available, so I have my first name and first letter of my last name on my plates. This wasn't what I really wanted, but all the witty things I thought I came up with were taken. I also have what is called a specialty plate. Mine have little handprints on them and the charity these plates support helps stop child abuse. I have to admit from reading all the posts in this thread I am wondering if it is smart to have personalized plates. Never even thought of any of the safety issues that could go along with having my personal information so publicly available.

An earlier posts brought up the issue of people slowing down when a cop has someone pulled over. I admit this used to seem silly to me, since the car was already pulled over. Missouri now has a law and you will see signs on the highway warning people to slow down or pull over for emergency vehicles. This all came about ,because there have been several law enforcement workers killed while outside of their car.

It's ok for the double post- we understand. :-) And welcome!!!

I can understand slowing for officers in the line of duty for safety sake, but I imagine most people slow down becuase they feel the social self-consciousness of their speeding creeping upon them.

And I'm like you, when I'm driving out of state, we make it a game to decipher the personalized plates. Some of them are really witty and some of them are just so darned hard to figure out it's just a jumble.

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Not that you asked, but it is not something I would do...

Around here the only vanity plates I see are on redneck trucks:chair: (that could probably use the extra money each year on a new exhaust system!!) and on the car of one of our docs (SURG1):rolleyes: .

Not people I care to emulate, lol!

~Laura

PS LeahJet I love that photo of you and your daughter!! SO CUTE!

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And I'm like you, when I'm driving out of state, we make it a game to decipher the personalized plates. Some of them are really witty and some of them are just so darned hard to figure out it's just a jumble.

There actually was a game show a couple of years ago that was nothing but people trying to decipher license plates.

Talk about hostility on the boards, I am not getting some of the anger here shown by people who've chosen not to get personalized plates. Why is it so upsetting that other people like them? (I don't have them currently, BTW; when I did, they related to my cats, not my license.)

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LeahJet I love that photo of you and your daughter!! SO CUTE!

Oh thanks!

But that is Ana and her big sis (my step daughter) I wish I looked like her...:rolleyes:

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