"let loose the nurses of war"

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We have been invited to go visit the angry pharmacist and tell him what we think about MA's calling themselves nurses. Read the post- it's a hoot.

http://www.theangrypharmacist.com/archives/2007/08/let_loose_the_n.html

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

I am dying to read the information from the pharmacist. I am at work, and cannot obtain it right now. Shucks!!! Gotta wait until I get home...

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Specializes in ER, Occupational Health, Cardiology.

That Angry Pharmacist said enough for me. I am soooo tired of this. The office where I am employed is about 50-50 Nurses and MAs. All of the MAs refer to themselves as "nurses," as does the staff, including the MDs. When I said something to our COO about it in an open meeting she accused me of being "prejudiced." She is a BSN. I've tried to tell folks about the legal implications, and they just blow me off as some kind of kook.

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I am dying to read the information from the pharmacist. I am at work, and cannot obtain it right now. Shucks!!! Gotta wait until I get home...

here is the post

The Angry Pharmacist

Rants from the most trusted profession

August 28, 2007

Let loose the nurses of war!

One (1), uno, a single person had a complaint about my Nurse vs NA/MA rant.

I am a 17 year old girl in my senior year of high school. Im in the miami valley career tech center. This is my second year in the MVCTC. I am taking allied health. I have always wanted to be a nurse as far back as i can remember. My program has already went on clinicals and everything and we are trying our best to learn everything as quick as possible. I think that NA's and MA's should be able to call themselves some what of a nurse because after all thats what we are going to school to be is a nurse. I also dont think people should run their mouths about people who call themselves nurses because its none of anyones buisness so leave it alone. Our teachers that teach us here are all very good
RN
's that know what they are doing!!!!!!!! SO STOP YOUR **** AND GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, to be young again. Honey, you're going to find out later on in life that if you call yourself something that you are not, especially in the medical field, you are going to get in a whole pot of deep hot ****. Comparing your education to someone with a BS degree in nursing is really insulting to those who actually went to college for 4+ years to get an RN. Names and titles are reserved for those who actually earn that title. See, the 'A' in your title stands for ASSISTANT. Therefore you are a Nursing ASSISTANT not a NURSE. You can call yourself an NA or a MA until the cows come home, just don't call yourself a nurse. In fact, you don't even call yourself a 'woman', but a 'girl'. Afraid someone is going to call you out that you are in fact a girl and not a 'woman'?

And yes, It is my business to know exactly who I am talking to on the phone, because you may not realize this now, but when I ask you a question, and you guess an answer (because you are not an RN, and you think its okay to just guess) and someone dies, its my ass, not yours. I'm not saying that you all are a bunch of idiots, but my pharmacy techs don't run around calling themselves Pharmacists, so you shouldn't call yourselves a nurse. See what your RN teachers think about that.

Now what you should be worried about is the influx of angry nurses who are going to chew your ass a new one when they read this post. Of course its best to have this happen on the internet than in front of everyone in a hospital where they can see you cry.

I'm going to enjoy this. Nurses, you know what to do! Get your friends in on this. Lets make something she can print out and hand to her teachers who think its okay that they call themselves nurses.

Posted by The Angry Pharmacist on August 28, 2007 7:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

August 26, 2007

enjoy

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the child is 17!!!

my dtr's age.

gotta love the defiance.

i laughed, but just couldn't take her seriously.

loved the angry pharmacist's response.

but i hope too many don't rip her to shreds.

afterall, she is only 17...

leslie

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the child is 17!!!

my dtr's age.

gotta love the defiance.

i laughed, but just couldn't take her seriously.

loved the angry pharmacist's response.

but i hope too many don't rip her to shreds.

afterall, she is only 17...

leslie

The trouble is: many MA's feel this way. It's not just the 17 year old, it's many others. The schools advertise this way on TV all the time. They teach that way. Dr's allow it to happen. But just try to call a MA a Dr. and see what happens. Have you ever went to a pharmacy and the tech introduces themself as the "pharmacist". Never happened to me. Can you imagine the law suite if the tech did something wrong with the script or gave wrong info , after they introduced themself as the pharmacist. Most pharacists I know would have an absolute fit if they heard a tech introduce themself as a pharacists. Even if the tech is 17. And that's the way it should be. I worked as a CNA at 17, but never would have called myself a nurse. I knew the RN's would have ripped me a new one.

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oh, i agree, time4me.

when older people who are ma's, id themselves as nurses, then yeah, chew them up and spit them out.

but not when they're 17....

leslie

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after the day I had today, I needed that laugh.Thanks for that post.:roll

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Thanks for the words of kindness, your right, If I was with her face to face I'm sure I would be freindly and explain to her in a prof. way why she should not call her self a nurse. Talk about nurses eating their young. I would give her a chance (1 chance ). Then.... Slooooowly I would turn.....then let loose,foaming at the mouth with horns showing under my hair.:smokin:

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

We were oriented to the new pediatric crash cart today, and heck, I wasn't that sure of all of the things I was seeing, but I HAVE to learn it because I am responsible for my part in answering a code as an LPN. Now, imagining this child and other MAs trying to know the drugs and the other things that nurses need to be aware of. Scary...

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Specializes in Travel Nursing, ICU, tele, etc.

Did anyone of you post on that board, man go for it, I say!! I did!

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I posted!

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Specializes in med-surg.

My vote is that if the thought of being insane doesn't cross her brain at least a few times a week during lecture or while studying and memorizing mass volume of information, then she definitely isn't in nursing school.

Personally, I've gotten to the point I don't tell people that I study nursing anymore. I started nursing school and everyone started telling things that I just didn't need to know. Now there was the cutie in IT support that was asking about the bruises on hip after a skiing accident. Being a responsible student, I told him that he should consult his physician if he was concerned with the healing process, although I would have loved nothing more than to assess his skin integrity under those.....oops sorry :lol2:

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