"My Tech" or "My Aide"

[dreamer30]

It bothers me when RN'S or LPN's say "my tech". For example: If they are looking for me or another tech they will say "where's my tech" or when they ask for help they say "can i borrow your Tech"

That's really bothers me and I always correct them. Does that bother anyone else... I'm not property and I work with you not for you...

[bathrobemom, LPN]

How does me complaing abt the phrase "my tech" say I need a new job....

"If you don't feel appreciated". Good grief, I thought you wanted advice, you're not required to take it though.

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

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

'My health care assistants are an awesome bunch of people"

"I will not have my healthcare assistants being put at risk by this patients ongoing violence and aggression"

Are both statements I've said recently.

If I need to talk to a health care assistant directly I will say something along the lines of "Where is 'name' I need to speak with them?"

Never ever considered the HCAs property.

Honestly i think you are over thinking it

[DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN]

I can understand what you are saying, but like others have said I think that you are reading too much into it. We use the possessive "my" to just describe every relationship in our lives, my tech, my husband, my children... I own none of these things.

I am honored to be called "my nurse" because that is an acknowledgement of the title that I have earned. You too have earned your CNA/Tech title and should be proud when someone calls you by this.

I am wondering if this bothers you when everyone says this or just a select group of nurses cause perhaps there are underlying issues of disrespect that have made this harder to tolerate. I could easily see how if you had a condescending nurse who treated you badly, how a dash of sarcasm could make this troublesome; however try to let this roll off your back. Being a tech is hard enough without over-analyzing the intent of every word YOUR nurse utters. Just do your job 100%, like I am sure you do, and stop worrying about other people.

Good luck!

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

I often refer to the CNA staff as "my aides," but then they also refer to me as their nurse. So it goes both ways. I've never had the feeling that either side was offended by it.

[la_chica_suerte85, BSN, RN]

I'm a nursing student trying to get a job as a tech. The nurses can call me whatever they want -- just as long as I'm employed!!!!!

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I prefer my nurse over the nurse. Its a small way of showing teamwork.

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Welp I guess I'm the only one that feels like that. That's fine for you guys but call me by my name. And I don't say my nurse. I say her/his name.

No, you're not the only one. I'm an LPN, and the RN I used to work with called me "my LPN". I never called her "my RN", I always called her by her name. It always bothered me, but I couldn't pin down why exactly. I think it was the "my" part that got me. I am not "your" anything. You don't "own" me, and I don't "belong" to you. It always felt like some kind of put down. And no, I never worried excessively about it; it more just annoyed me than anything. I do understand how you feel. I've never done that to anyone, either, either CNA or RN. It just doesn't sit right with me. We are team mates, yes, not "owners".

mc3:nurse:

[Mavrick, BSN, RN]

Maybe the nurse you speak of is trying to include you in a team you don't want to be a part of. That's kind of sad.

If they keep doing it after you have corrected them, that's inconsiderate and would be annoying.

[dreamer30]

No, you're not the only one. I'm an LPN, and the RN I used to work with called me "my LPN". I never called her "my RN", I always called her by her name. It always bothered me, but I couldn't pin down why exactly. I think it was the "my" part that got me. I am not "your" anything. You don't "own" me, and I don't "belong" to you. It always felt like some kind of put down. And no, I never worried excessively about it; it more just annoyed me than anything. I do understand how you feel. I've never done that to anyone, either, either CNA or RN. It just doesn't sit right with me. We are team mates, yes, not "owners".

mc3:nurse:

Omg yes!!! Someone who gets it! Maybe it's the way I was raised or just how I carry myself. I don't think that a hard abt it. I work nights and I get bored so I made a forum about it.

[dreamer30]

You guys have made your point. It's not a big deal it's just something I don't like. I work nights and I get bored and make forums. Just wanted to know if it was just me and clearly it is lol.

[SubSippi]

You guys have made your point. It's not a big deal it's just something I don't like. I work nights and I get bored and make forums. Just wanted to know if it was just me and clearly it is lol.

Yeah, it's just the way people talk. I refer to the surgeons I work with as "my surgeon" all the time.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

A CNA is not autonomous employee though I am sure the OP sees herself that way, and that she gives off the your not in charge of me vibe and is generally difficult to deal with. She has issues of inferiority that run deep.

CNA is the abbreviation for Certified Nursing Assistant, not certified patient assistant. Yes, nurses have assistants and those assistants are, by law, responsible for patient care needs as delegated by and under the direct supervision of the licensed professional nurse.

The only time that I would be rude and depersonalize a CNA by saying "my CNA" would be if that CNA had not introduced herself and I did not what else to call her. If I did not know her name, if she avoided me and tried to make me uncomfortable by refusing to communicate or accept direction, and or if she did the passive aggressive disappearing act, then yes I am going to have no choice but to say "Has anyone seen my (or our) CNA?"