scrub tech= scrub nurse? hmmm....

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Specializes in SICU.

Re: the recent hype r/t Minka Kelly,

puzzled.... since when is a scrub technician a scrub nurse?

http://tonicgossip.com/2010/09/30/minka-kelley-used-to-work-as-nurse/

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

Maybe she became an LPN?

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Specializes in OR Hearts 10.

She stated she went to school to be a surgical technician--scrub nurse. I think she was just explaining what a surgical tech is since most people outside of a medical setting don't know, but do know that a "scrub nurse" is the person in there assisting with a surgery.

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Specializes in Cath Lab/ ICU.

She doesn't hold a California nursing license, if here name is the same...

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

Most of the public don't know what a scrub tech really is. I think she was just trying to use a title that the public can understand. I am not at all advocating that people should sling around the word "nurse" when they are not, in fact, nurses. I bet it made her feel important though!

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

Never heard of her.

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.

It's the same saga that Operating Department Practitioners here in the UK have , people don't know who and what they are - despite the fact in some Operating theatre suites they outnumber the RNs and because of the way they are regulated in the UK as a health profession aren't reliant on the presence of RNs i.e. they can hold the keys, administer drugs, be the accountable person for counts etc ...

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Specializes in OR.

It's actually illegal in the state of California to describe yourself as a nurse when you are neither an RN or an LPN. We worked hard to get our licenses, and it just bugs me when people call themselves nurses when they are not. I'm sure people could figure out what a surgical technician is if they wanted to.

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Specializes in surgery, geriatrics, home health.

I am an LPN and a CST. I would use both terms, because most lay people don't know what a CST is. I don't really find it offensive that CSTs use the term scrub nurse. Actually, they hold an associates degree whereas LPNs only have a diploma for a year of nursing school! Not to be derrogatory to me or my fellow LPNs! I'm just sayin. I have experienced nurses in the OR treating CSTs as second class. CSTs or LPNs can't even join AORN. It is time to put all that to the side and just stop it and recognize that we all are there to do a job and not to feel threatened by each other.

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Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.

I think the issue is that she refers to herself as a "scrub NURSE" and it is illegal for any non-nurse to refer to self as "nurse". Doesn't matter that she's trying to simplify for the public, it's still wrong.

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Specializes in surgery, geriatrics, home health.

I guess it all depends on if it bugs you enough to turn them in for that or not. For me, it doesn't.:rolleyes:

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I've never heard of her. It's a pretty safe bet the BON hasn't either.

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