The letters on my badge doesn't trump your experience! ughh

[ZooMommyRN]

Lately I've been taking report at night from the same nurse. yet if I have a question her stock answer is "YOU'RE the RN!" umm yeah ok so my badge says RN (I've only been licensed since July, I'm still learning ALOT!) and hers says LPN (5yrs med/surg experience), that doesn't mean jack sometimes when it comes down to floor experience and me having a patient that has some med or disorder that is new me! When it comes to knowledge and patient care the RN on my badge do not indicate "knows it all" (ok so there might be a few out there like that, they just aren't on our floor lol), just answer the question if you can, if you don't know just say you don't know not to mention if she knows I'm following her, she'll leave stuff undone because "The RN can do it better" yeah I don't buy into that one bit and luckily neither does my NM

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

I encountered this the first year I worked. This on LPN was a great nurse, just kinda resented me..I don't know why, I knew she was awesome and would learn tons from her. Got to the point where one day I just took off my name tag and told her to treat me like any other nurse should be treated. She got the point.

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

I encountered this the first year I worked. This on LPN was a great nurse, just kinda resented me..I don't know why, I knew she was awesome and would learn tons from her. Got to the point where one day I just took off my name tag and told her to treat me like any other nurse should be treated. She got the point.

I am certainly not defending her behavior, but maybe she has experienced some snarly behavior from previous RNs that diminished her role or acknowledged that she is a capable nurse. Again, I am not saying this is everyone, nor am I grouping/stereotyping titles or people, but this happens alot. An example of that is an LPN introduces herself to an RN, and she (the RN) says "So, when are you going to become a nurse?"...duh...and then, it starts...

I have been able to go past that most of the time because I was never one to care what people thought about my personal choices, but, if it happened too often even after a gentle correction, then, I would get defensive. This may have been the issue with her, and when she discovered that you were not a participant in such behavior, she was able to become more comfortable with you.

[blueheaven]

Sounds like jealousy to me. Thank God for my LPNs when I first started nursing on a telemetry floor. They took me under their wing and taught me SOOOOO much about cardiac nursing. I'm so sorry that you have a lemon for a coworker.

[Babs0512]

I tend to take the forward approach. I would simply say, when she makes the statement "You're the RN" - "Yes, that's true, buy you have years more experience than I, and I thought maybe we could learn from each other."

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Blessings

[DeepFriedRN]

....In addition, we master the areas where we gained more experience. I am an LPN that works in a clinic, so, I know this inside out. A med-surg RN may know her area inside out, but may be lost in the clinic because the procedures are different...

Amen to this my friend!! I am an experienced tele nurse who just started working per diem in a clinic. Talk about out of my element! It is an entirely different skill set... But I'm learning.. Regardless of the difference in letters behind our names, you could most assuredly run circles around me in this setting.

P.S. The RN's who do the whole "just an LVN" thing make me embarrassed, too..:imbar