RN On-call car plates/sign on cars

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I'm just curious if you guys ever get past a traffic violation like overspeeding when the police officer sees that you have an "RN On-Call" plate/sign on your car?

I see a lot of these plates and I wonder what purpose they serve aside from broadcasting that the one inside the vehicle is an "RN On-Call".

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Specializes in M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU.

I'm trying to understand what you're implying.

Those signs are suppose to "allow" speeding?

That sounds like a major safety issue.

At my hospital, we have 30 minutes to make it to work from the time of being called in--that includes drive time.

We don't use signs.

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LOL!!!!! What in the world? I doubt if that's the purpose of the sign.....

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I'm not implying that those signs are supposed to "allow" speeding or any traffic violation, but I am inquiring if some traffic officer would have a "let-go" on you if they see that "RN On-call" sign.

I've seen these signs on their windshield and sometimes at the backseat window. Same like those "Baby On-board" signs.

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I'm not implying that those signs are supposed to "allow" speeding or any traffic violation, but I am inquiring if some traffic officer would have a "let-go" on you if they see that "RN On-call" sign.

I've seen these signs on their windshield and sometimes at the backseat window. Same like those "Baby On-board" signs.

i want one of those signs!!!!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Others may disagree with me, but 15 years in I can tell you there is generally a special bond between our poliece family and our nursing family. We take care of our own.

That being said... I've been pulled over doing 80 in a 55 to get to work to see my favorite patient before he went to the OR to get a heat transplant and got a police escort..."safely"..bugger got me there but ticketed me... best fine I'd ever paid.

Trooper told me, "you may love your transplants just enough to provide the organs for them", and handed me the ticket as I ran into work.

Point is that the police may excuse a minor violation because we are one of their own, when it comes to recklessness as I did on a winding country road... he sure helped me, but I was held accountable... so I'd think twice before endangering others in my driving.

I have many a trooper card to pull with minor violations that will be honored when I use them... but there are instances, license plate, stickers and what not.. that when they feel you'll gone a bit too crazy, you are put in check.

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One of my favorite mentors was a nurse I worked with who was also a nun.

I loved her sense of humor (she told really naughty jokes), her dedication, her patience (with nursing and educating slack jawed aides such as I was), but what I loved most about her was the amount of speeding tickets she aquired...we used to calling her the "flying" nun because of it..I used to tell her to wear her habit to work instead of scrubs and she said it wouldn't matter the local cops knew her to well :rotfl:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

To think that some officers do not take those signs into consideration is a bit naive. :)

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Not sure what type of sign you are referring to but I disagree with identifying my vocation to every schmo on the road. Had an ex coworker with RN BENZ on the tage of her mercedes. All it got her was trouble when she drove past an auto accident and a helpful bystander remembered her catchy tag and turned her in for not stopping. Same with hanging scopes on rearview mirrors. I think its a bad idea.

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Can you be turned in for not stopping? And how would they know its you? What if your husband (non-RN) was the one driving the car?

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I disagree with this idea. How would I feel if, because I was speeding, I caused a horrible wreck and injured someone? AWFUL. The job can wait; I will get there safely, rather than become a patient due to careless driving. I understand your point of view, but if we allowed EVERYONE who felt speeding was warranted due to their personal situation, things would get messy. If being on call means you are needed IMMEDIATELY, then there is always the option of sleeping in-house. I did this when I lived 45 minutes from work, especially when the weather was dangerous and would making driving at all hazardous.

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Specializes in ED, CTSurg, IVTeam, Oncology.

Not really a vanity plate issue, but in a similar vein. I recall once in the military, while running radar, I had an MD LTC speeding ~ 26 MPH over the speed limit. After we pulled him over, he angrily told us that he was rushing to the post hospital for a medical emergency. I immediately told him that we will escort him code 3, using lights and sirens. We notified the MP dispatch of the emergency run, who then had other units ahead of us block traffic as we sped by.

Of course, after the dispatch called the hospital and found out that there was no emergency at all, we went right back to the post hospital and in front of his colleagues, issued him his speeding ticket. The duty officer of the day then charged him with falsely declaring an emergency. Moral of the story is, don't try to cheat through life. It's bad karma that will eventually come back to haunt you.

As for being "let go" by officers out of traffic violations? Simple, don't ever put yourself into such a situation.

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