Student RN

geez didnt realise how rude nurses in the us were. im not reading any more msgs because i couldnt be bothered what your replies are anymore,,yeah bsyrn harsh and not constructive at all. see ya )ps thanks to the 2 decent nurses in the beginning)

I am sorry, but it would have been helpful if you stated where you were located. I meant no disrespect.

Here in the US, or at least where I am, we sign our names along with "Student Nurse". We are not yet registered nurses until we graduate and pass the NCLEX. So therefore we can not call ourselves "RN's" until then. In my state, North Carolina, RN is a protected title.

From your response I have learned something about how the process works in Australia. That'something I did not know before. It's interesting to know how differently things work in other countries. Now, you have learned something too.

Your post seemed fishy to me because you just registered on AN, this was your first post and your post seemed a little odd. That's all. There are plenty of "trolls" who come on here and try to start drama.

I wish you the best of luck with your career.

I have looked into becoming a physician after nursing school (I love science, but some of these doctors have no idea about a patient's needs). You can have any 4 year degree but you have to take lots of chem and bio b4 you can take the MCAT to even be considered for any med school. Things like Organic chemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, that kind of stuff. I would recommend becoming a Nurse Practitioner, because you become licensed to prescribe meds, analyze laboratory data, etc. So its basically a simpler doc w/ out all the chem and bio background.

I'm not an RN btw. I have to admit it seems like you have a 50/50 chance with RNs when you need help. Either they are helpful, nice, and want to be as useful as they can to you as a student, or they are grumpy and annoyed by you. I know plenty of RNs that I would love to be friends with, and plenty I never want to see again

I second that it would have been helpful to state where you were located in your OP. I was assuming that you weren't from the US based on your terminology, but it is hard to tell. You should know that here in the US there are a lot of people who are NOT nurses claiming to be RN's. Sorry if we get a little protective of the title :) We just worked hard to get where we are. And yes, there are a grumpy few, but you can't let yourself get too offended by online messages, its too hard to know where people are coming from.

As far as your original question I have no idea how to help you. In the U.S. if you want to go into general practice after getting your RN the best route is to become a Nurse Practitioner.

I think you should do your nursing for a year and maybe look into going down the NP path. If you are young you have a lot of time ahead of you to make decisions.

In Australia we do not have to pass a licensing exam to qualify for our RN after studying for 3 years at University, we have to be able to answer to all the nursing competencies though and we are now audited to keep those up to date once registered.

Currently I'm doing a dual degree and almost finished my Midwifery placement of 400 hours this semester, I sign my notes as the SM (student midwife).. When I do my last Nursing semester I can either sign my notes off as SRN or SN... As the OP said its due to student EN's that are on shift with us... but we have the option and I just choose to use SN.

Hope you're not turned off comming in here again. I think you just confused everyone, I didn't even realise you were from Australia until you mentioned it in your next post.

Your post seemed fishy to me because you just registered on AN, this was your first post and your post seemed a little odd. That's all. There are plenty of "trolls" who come on here and try to start drama.

I wish you the best of luck with your career.

The OP wasn't the troll in this thread, I'm afraid.

is the student already a registered nurse? not that i've read. therefore, he/she is not a 'student rn'. nor are they an "rn student" because that would imply they were awarded the license with graduation. as far as i know, even outside of the us, one has to actually graduate from an accredited school of nursing and take the licensing exam and pass it before one can be called an rn. so unless you can assure me that the student is about to graduate and pass the licensing exam immediately, the student is not soon to be an rn although that may indeed be their hope.

the op is asking for help, but clearly needs a lot more help than he or she is asking for. it might have been a good thing to actually research the educational requirements for the career choices she/he's considering before throwing it out there.

in my nursing program, which is in the us, we were told that it was okay to sign our charting rns standing for rn student. we are not passing ourselves off as having our rn, we are saying that we are students in an rn program. when we graduate we will have obtained a degree as a registered nurse. forgive me if this is offensive to you, but i found this post to be very disrespectful and snobbish. this op wrote that he/she was a student registered nurse, and i'm sure that this was just a slip. it isn't as if the op is trying to pass him/herself off as an rn. i think the op meant to write "i am an rn student." you are being very petty and picky in saying that someone can't call themselves an rn student or a student rn. as long as the person acknowledges that they are still a student in training to become an rn, what difference does it make? i've read more than one of your posts, and i find most of what you have to say to be very disrespectful and hateful. you have a tone that is very condescending and insulting. that's just my opinion. i feel that since you so freely gave yours, i can give mine.

"RNS" looks very deceptive.

How so? We are given the option to either write RNS or RN student.

The way a student signs his or her name when charting may vary greatly from one state to another. I suppose you can, in theory, challenge the student, but without knowing what their state allows (or disallows) it's moot.

Personally, I would prefer to see SN or RN-Student so there's no room for ambiguity. With things like RN-C floating around, people who are not familiar with all of the abbreviations might assume RNS was just another variation on RN and even infer some advanced status. Clarity should prevail.