"the nurse"

[Flare]

I sometimes find it a bit irritating that I am referred to as "the nurse" and ALWAYS as just "the nurse". I find it a bit dehumanizing from time to time. We just had an exchange of emails and when I explained that I could not make the even in question because I would be attending another function the administrator replied saying can we pick a date when the nurse is available. It wasn't a long list of people. If Principal Linda had said can we pick a date when Flare is available nobody would have been confused.

Sigh... if you need me I'm going to hang out with my counterpart:

[kunaspud]

Funny that this just came up. My office staff have been talking about this today, before this was posted and are apologetic. Actually, they want to get me a tee that says exactly that. "THE" Nurse.

[Tencat12]

I think I need to be called 'Your Grace'......I'll suggest it to admin........

[NurseBeans, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I think I need to be called 'Your Grace'......I'll suggest it to admin........

That's what I was just thinking, given the choice, I might insist on Your Highness.

[Windchaser22]

When I'm feeling especially passive aggressive and sick of being a title I respond to staff questions with their title, teacher, counselor etc. Mostly it just confuses them and the sarcasm is lost. On the other hand, when the vomit is flying we know we are irreplaceable.

[itsybitsy]

I was never called anything but "Brad's wife" for the 18 months I worked there. Annoying.

Yeah, I get called "the nurse" and pretty much nothing else around here. It's annoying but I guess it's better than "Brad's wife". Atleast here I have my own identity:sarcastic:

Do you by chance work at Cracker Barrel?

[moreoreo]

I am guilty of perpetuating this. Three months in I still leave voice messages for parents and staff stating "good morning, this is the nurse at ABC school" or "hi this is Moreoreo the nurse." I just got married recently so I'm not comfortable with "Mrs. LastName" and "Miss FirstName" which some of the students call me is kind of funny too. When kids see me in the hallway they usually exclaim "that's the nurse!" And when one of my students saw me at kindergarten registration for his sibling he excitedly told both mom and sibling, "that's my nurse! That's my nurse!"

But if staff sent emails that didn't at least attempt to use my name that would feel pretty disrespectful. On our walkie talkies they usually ask, "health office? Nurse?" But I feel like that's bc I have a health aide and they ultimately don't care which person from the health office responds so long as someone does.

[BSN_to_ICU]

In nursing school, I did my community rotation in a free clinic, and I was only called "the nursing student." The providers would say "the nursing student" did this wrong again...so on and so forth. They also called the other nurses "MY nurse." It always irked me. I truly don't think a single person there knew my first or last name.

[TriciaJ, RN]

When I started working in corrections, I had to spend an orientation day at the County Health Department. I spent the whole day being referred to as "the jail nurse". Sounded uncomfortably close to "jail bird". But still a big improvement to what I often got called when I was working at that job.

[peacockblue]

I hate being called "the nurse" or "nurse Peacock". I always reply with OK, Teacher Smith. They never get it.

[LondonFog, BSN]

Well, Doctor Who is famously just 'The Doctor", and that's quite cool and mysterious :) Does that come with a designated parking spot?

[RickyRescueRN, BSN, RN]

I'm a flight nurse at my hospital and don't even get called/ referred to as a nurse. Rather I get summoned as "Life Flight, we need you" or "Life Flight is here" and yes, this is in the hospital where I am employed. I don't have a name or a title, just called by the department I work in . LOL

[mc3, ASN, RN]

I love it! Kind of along the same lines as "Nurse", not "Nurse mc3" or even "mc3", just "Nurse". I've considered calling our secretary "Secretary" instead of "Sue", or "Principal" instead of "Ms. SoandSo", or "Data Clerk" instead of "Mary". Might just do it sometime!

Can you tell it's getting to the end of the year?...........