I watched a show on BBCA last night "24 in the ER" which is a documentary where they film 24 hours in an ER in a major hospital in England. There are interviews and follow ups with patients and staff and so on.
My questions are regarding the titles of some of the staff they interviewed. There were nurses, but some titles I don't know: sister, junior sister, senior sister, and consultant. What is the difference between a sister and a nurse?
what do they call a male who is a charge nurse in the UK? Is he still called a Sister, or is there another name?
I've only ever seen a charge nurse referred to by their first name. Logically if a female charge nurse is 'sister' then the male should be 'brother' lol
Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
ref fellows in medical roles given it can take 8 -10 or more years post registration for a doctor to obtain their CCT and be eligible for a consultant post there's a lot less of need for them as StR 4- 6 /7 Registrars probably know as much as new attendings
well if I take you a bit behing you will see that nursing has a history of having Nuns working as Nurses and I guess the dressing of Nurses and nuns in the past was almost the same dressing code. this can help us understand that perhaps the sister name was rather a name that was adopted from the nuns as they also call themselves sister as well.
skylark, BSN, RN
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But just to confuse things a Charge Nurse isnt always in charge, and a nurse can be in charge without the title Charge Nurse.
Told you it was confusing!!!