I was reading a post earlier. Normally I love to do that, when I get some downtime I am entertained/educated by posts here and I enjoy it. However I saw something on here that bothered me. It is a recurring theme.
A user said that since a poster was a nursing student and not a nurse she should change her username. I see that a lot here, other users telling posters to change their name because they are students, or CNAs, etc. Does that really bother you??? It's not like it's that big of a deal. If I was a culinary student I would call myself DelaneyBaker and it would be fine. If I was an engineering student I would call myself DelaneyEngineer. It wouldn't be a big deal. Y'all act as if there aren't millions and millions of nurses in the world and are so prideful. It's not that hard to be a nurse. People from dinky little schools are "nurses". People who did things completely online are "nurses". It isn't a big deal.
I don't know why this riled me up so much but it did. Sorry for the rant.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
To you maybe, LOL. But, damn. I'm already having a hard time because I'm studying to go to med school and I'm a giant obsessive dork who gets really excited about medicine and I've accidentally gotten too stoked a few times before a nurse has gotten to know me and gone into a schpeal talking to the patient about the pathophysiology of something a patient is experiencing... all the info was correct, but it was "out of my scope." Most of my nurses know me now and encourage me to educate the patients because they know I won't talk about something unless I know what I'm talking about and that I am basically just regurgitating from textbooks, but some of the nurses who haven't gotten to know me yet are still sort of (and VERY RIGHTFULLY SO) worried when I start spouting stuff. Most CNA's should for the love of GOD not say a damned word... I hate to say I'm an exception, but I am... but I will totally back off if a nurse asks me to, but that doesn't happen once they get to know me. I have no life except studying medicine. Seriously... it's kind of sad and glorious at the same time.
Your name may not be why they're giving you the cold shoulder.
- especially when you have a dying patient who is drowning in their own body fluids and despite your very best nursing care they and their family members are suffering badly
- or when you have a little old lady who despite being covered in urine or faeces begs you not to move them because shes in so much pain
- Its not hard trying to catheterise a little old man who has multiple urethral scrictures and a massively enlarged prostate, the bladder scan shows 2.5 litres of urine in the bladder
- certainly not hard for the person with the large fungating wound on their face that would rather let flys crawl over it than let the nursing and medical staff touch it because they are in so much pain.
And I could go on.
Before I give the impression its all doom and gloom there are also the equally rewarding moments, I have one of the best jobs in the world. I'm immensely privileged to be able to walk the final path with people who are dying and to care for them in their final days. When the nursing staff manage to heal an unstageable pressure injury, or manage an outbreak effectively.
I worked bloody hard to get my degree. Took me a whole four years to start as a beginning practitioner, four years later I feel like I maybe know about 1% of all there is to know about nursing, but wouldnt swap it for anything. And yes I have an issue with people who call themselves nurses who arent. Mainly for the point that they are unqualified and have the potential to do more harm than good.
You know who says nursing is easy? People who arent nurses. You become more qualified to make that statement when you become a practicing registered/enrolled nurse. Coming into a nursing forum to tell us how precious we are being and how our job is easy is not conducive to a productive conversation and just gets peoples backs up
Good post. Thinking you need to know how to medicate patients with fungating wounds and in to much pain to move though.
I was reading a post earlier. Normally I love to do that, when I get some downtime I am entertained/educated by posts here and I enjoy it. However I saw something on here that bothered me. It is a recurring theme.
A user said that since a poster was a nursing student and not a nurse she should change her username. I see that a lot here, other users telling posters to change their name because they are students, or CNAs, etc. Does that really bother you??? It's not like it's that big of a deal. If I was a culinary student I would call myself DelaneyBaker and it would be fine. If I was an engineering student I would call myself DelaneyEngineer. It wouldn't be a big deal. Y'all act as if there aren't millions and millions of nurses in the world and are so prideful. It's not that hard to be a nurse. People from dinky little schools are "nurses". People who did things completely online are "nurses". It isn't a big deal.
I don't know why this riled me up so much but it did. Sorry for the rant.
A little recon will serve you well here. And I highly doubt your school nurse was a CNA. Unless you were in school during WW2
Soooo I *actually* read the terms of service for the first time and that was good to know. I'm sorry I was so fiery. It just seemed like you all were trying to be aggressive or belittling instead of what I guess you were actually trying to do. I went to school in a small town and our school nurse was referred to as a "nurse" even though she was a CNA and nobody cared and that's kind of another thing that made me think it was so mean they way y'all attacked people about the username cause it seemed to trivial. i don't mind. I only finished my second year of nursing school so i guess I don't have a good understanding. I mean it's hard, but when my classmates complain or treat the CNAs bad I don't understand. Anyway I guess this is all moot because like i said I finally read terms of service.
You've probably heard this 51 times already but yes, it is a big deal. The title of "nurse" is legally protected. Can you image if anyone could just go around calling themselves "nurse" or "doctor"? Ever wonder why they DON'T do that?
One of my friends got overly excited on FB one day soon after I announced that I had just been accepted to my program. She put 'RN' after my name in a comment. I asked her to take it down. You aren't an RN until you've take and passed the state boards, for the same reasons why you can't call yourself MD.
It's never as hard when you don't do something yourself. Respecfully, I bet if you worked as a CNA long enough, you would likely be a nurse by osmosis? (I've heard that before, or something similar).
Personally, I don't care what you call yourself, names have meaning for each of us. Perhaps yours should be: "Seriously I Messed Up, CNA"?
Nursing IS hard, and if you screw up there are DIRE consequences. Legally, and morally (as in guilt for the rest of your life that your screw up may have ended someone's life that they loved and enjoyed very much. Game over friend).
I could rant at how insulting your rant was, and point out it indicates you don't have a clue about what you speak. I find in these instances it is best not to speak at all any more, because you've already dug yourself in dutch - good and proper.
Perhaps your thread was a purposeful poke in the eye? Well friend: one eye blinded, and slight received. Offense accepted.
Now, off to go do easy things that may end up costing me my license (as Lil Debbie says: "Think I'll bake a cake!") …
Y'all act as if there aren't millions and millions of nurses in the world and are so prideful. It's not that hard to be a nurse. People from dinky little schools are "nurses". People who did things completely online are "nurses". It isn't a big deal.
Hmmm …
Well, DelaneyB, CNA (butcher, baker, candlestick maker, and psychoanalyst to all of nursing:
Matthew 7:1-3King James Version (KJV)
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
I was told in a nursing class many years ago that anyone can use the title Nurse but you legally cant use the initials RN or LVN unless you are licensed.......which I thought was odd
Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
I was told in a nursing class many years ago that anyone can use the title Nurse but you legally cant use the initials RN or LVN unless you are licensed.......which I thought was odd
thats inaccurate in at least 38 states. Nurse,RN, registered nurse, LPN, licensed practical nurse are all protected titles.
I was told in a nursing class many years ago that anyone can use the title Nurse but you legally cant use the initials RN or LVN unless you are licensed.......which I thought was odd
Not the case in my state. You cannot use the word "nurse" to describe yourself or another employee unless that person is a licensed RN or LPN. The only remotely allowable deviation would be in the title "Certified Nursing Assistant."
Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.
OP----I'm not sure where you get the idea it's not hard to become a nurse.....but, well, yep, it is........harder still, sometimes, to keep ones license safe......
klone, MSN, RN
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Your name may not be why they're giving you the cold shoulder.