Seriously?? Small rant.

[DelaneyB]

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.

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

In my state only an RN can call themselves a nurse as a stand alone. An LPN is an LPN, not a nurse alone

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."

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

In my state only an RN can call themselves a nurse as a stand alone. An LPN is an LPN, not a nurse alone

Interesting. In Texas, you are a nurse if you are LPN or RN.

[Extra Pickles]

In my state only an RN can call themselves a nurse as a stand alone. An LPN is an LPN, not a nurse alone

I think it was someone from Washington who posted that only RNs could call themselves nurses and LPNs had to use the full title to explain who they were, that the short word Nurse wasn't allowed. Still think it's weird.

People call non nurses Nurse all the time and it's just how it is no matter how wrong and no matter how much we hate it and no matter how illegal it is. Unless it's something that ever actually gets prosecuted then people who work in medical offices are going to keep being called Office Nurse and so on. since the only people who care who gets called Nurse is NURSES and we don't have the power to prosecute it'll keep going on forever.