Just looking for some guidance. I am definitely trying to be discreet and anonymous, as I don't want to hinder someone's goals.
I begin a BSN program in a week. We are on a group chat with others in my cohort. I have caught one person in lies, several times. This person says they are basically a doctor on one social media account and on another of their social media accounts, has the letters RN, BSN behind their name. We are in a Prelicensure BSN program, meaning that we have no prior nursing degree.
*Edited to add that I checked my BON for licenses in this person's name and there are none.
Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.
46 minutes ago, Emergent said:
The police don't even want to be bothered if a nurse gets urinated on buy an ER patient. I doubt if they will care if someone is saying they are a nurse, and they aren't one.
Girl how did you not get my joke?!
It's like you don't even know me. How many years have we been doin this?
I'd report them to your professor. Claiming to be a doctor or nurse is out of line. I've heard of fake nurses who enroll in a program, flunk out and use the official letterhead to fake credentials. Protect your school and future patients, report em.
Stay far away,mind your own business,remeber anything you say even in the most confidential fashion will be repeated,trust no one,you don't know what her connections are,how she would react,so keep quiet.It will come to light by its own weight.don't comment and say you knew.Welcome to nursing 101.I had never had close contact before a nursing career to the addicted ,liars,temperments of divas,just say a prayer for them and hope they find the help they need.
Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
You already spent way too much time and energy by creating an account just to post this question. Keep it moving for your own sanity.
Plus, it’s the Internet, many people make up many stories of many types that aren’t true. Unless you had reason to believe that patient safety was in jeopardy, don’t waste your own energy on it.
There are lots of people out there on the internet claiming to be heiresses, supermodels, celebrities.... ah I think they are dubbed “influencers”. Just move on, they will get themselves into hot water.
Who cares what your classmate claims to be? Yeah, technically they should not be doing this, but in the online world, people need to learn how to use their own judgement and not trust something just because someone said so on an online forum.
Anyone see all the crazy hype about certain “natural” cure all’s after the spokesperson states he developed it after “picking up” his I think “second masters degree”???? Online or TV buyer (listener) be ware.
Oh, and on thing about looking up someone’s credentials-I have two. If you enter either my former name or my married name I come up as no license found in my state. If you enter my license number-it pulls up all my info-so those systems are not 100% I. Looking someone up. Plus, playing devil’s advocate here, an LPN can become an RN in California a lot easier than most states, and cannot transfer that RN to other states if they did obtain it in a ‘creative yet legal in California’ way. License transfer varies from state to state.
I don’t think you should be that invested in someone else’s business that doesn’t affect patient care in any shape or form, what they choose to call themselves on their social media. I actually know few doctors in their home country that came to the US and for some reason, aren’t willing to go through the rigorous and expensive out-of-pocket process of licensing and practicing here as a doctor, so decided to go thru with nursing school, many to nurse practitioners. Some accelerated online BSN students(2nd baccalaureate) programs do offer their pre-nursing to both students with a previous degree and some with no prior degree. So everyone there aren’t same and you may not know anyone’s background for certain. If they were doctors before, they can continue to refer to themselves as a doctor to their social media friends (many of whom may be their old patients and friends likely from their country of origin), when you earn an academic title, it’s for life unless your license was revoked (even that is debatable). Having said that, of course it is wrong to already add ‘BSN’ to their name when they are obviously not yet one-that is the extent you know because they are in your pre-nursing class.
I mean I sort of get it, if you're coming from a place of really wanting to uphold your state's Nurse Practice Act. Fraudulent nursing practice is no joke. But even then it would only be an issue if he was providing services, treatment, or health advice and saying like "You can trust me! I'm a Registered Nurse / BSN / basically a doctor..."
******** Warm/friendly new grad-to-new student nurse advice:
(1) Don't take all the comments on this thread to heart. They're laughing with you, not at you ?
(2) If you ever have an issue with another student or a nurse, unless they're immediately putting someone's safety at risk or they're impaired- like you smell alcohol on their breath and they're on duty... 99.9% of the time it's best to first address the problem with that person directly, and in a non-confrontational manner, before you report to another nurse to a charge, nurse manager, or nurse faculty member. Who knows, right? There may just be more to the story that we didn't know about.
(3) I'd let this one go, though, for sure. It's a non-issue
FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN
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Girl how did you not get my joke?!
It's like you don't even know me. How many years have we been doin this?