"My Tech" or "My Aide"

NurseCalamity · Jun 1, 2015

I always address my aides by their name.

dreamer30 · Jun 1, 2015

I always address my aides by their name.

That's great but u still used "my aides" I know you don't mean it in that way. Just sounds bad.

FlyingScot, RN · Jun 1, 2015

I think most people who use the phrase "my tech" or "my aide" mean it in a team sense. Not in a personal servant sense. As in "my team mate". I have techs who have referred to me and about me as "my nurse". Seriously, if this is the biggest thing you have to worry about you should count yourself as lucky.

dreamer30 · Jun 1, 2015

I think most people who use the phrase "my tech" or "my aide" mean it in a team sense. Not in a personal servant sense. As in "my team mate". I have techs who have referred to me and about me as "my nurse". Seriously, if this is the biggest thing you have to worry about you should count yourself as lucky.

Nope just something I don't like. And I don't feel like they mean it as a team. They mean my tech.

FlyingScot, RN · Jun 1, 2015

Nope just something I don't like. And I don't feel like they mean it as a team. They mean my tech.

Have you straight up asked them what they mean by it or are you just going by your feelings?

mvm2 · Jun 1, 2015

I don't understand how you would rather be addressed.

You are a tech. That is you job title. Your floor obviously have made it where you are partnered up with a nurse and when they are communicating with someone they are trying to address and ask about you specifically from the other techs.

It is no more offending then a patient asking where their nurse is.

Karou · Jun 1, 2015

Where I work the techs will say, "my nurses", and the nurses will say, "my techs". Not a big deal to me. Even when I was a CNA I never minded when the LVN's referred to me as "their" CNA.

We tell the patients, "Sally is your nurse tonight, and Sarah is your tech". Patients will ask, "where is my nurse?", or "I need my tech". Your/mine becomes natural phrasing.

Why do you think they mean it offensively?

mirandaaa · Jun 1, 2015

This has never bothered me. I am "their aide" and they are "my nurse" and we are working on "our unit" because we are teammates working on the same floor together.

It's not meant in a derogatory term as if you're a piece of property.

To me, this is the equivalent of complaining because your mom called her "her child" instead of calling you by name. She doesn't own you, you are not her property, but you are hers.

Graduatenurse14 · Jun 1, 2015

There is a CNA on my unit now who doesn't like it. I was a CNA at a different hospital from 2010-2013 while taking per-requs and part of RN school and we always used "my nurse" or "my aide" and though nothing of it. Like posters above, the use of certain terms shows a team spirit in my opinion but now that I know she doesn't like it, I am careful the say "the aide."

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Jun 1, 2015

They probably mean it as the tech who is assigned to work with them that night. I hear it used in clinical that way all of the time. For that matter I will say my nurse as in the nurse that is assigned to me on that clinical day and no one has ever had a problem with it. Each day when the charge nurse comes in, she pairs everyone up. The tech would say my nurse and the nurse would say my tech. Nobody thinks they own you, it just means who is assigned to them that day. And by the other nurse asking if she can borrow her tech, it's a sign of courtesy to ask that instead of just walking up to the tech and taking them from their job at the moment to help them. I honestly think you are reading waaayyy to much into it.

bathrobemom, LPN · Jun 1, 2015

I refer to people as "my patient", "my client", "my person", "my aide". They are all part of the team I am working with for the day. I wasn't born a nurse, I was a home health aide for 4 years and I still pick up hha hours. Not everyone that moves up the chain thinks they're better than everyone else.

If you don't feel appreciated, maybe it's the work environment - think about getting a new job. The place I work for makes me feel like a rock star, don't settle for less.