Vanity Plates?

[mrcleanscrubs]

Random curiosity propelled me to create this post.

Have you ever seen anyone driving in your town, city, or highway with those license plates that state, RN, PA, NP, MD on the back?

What do you all think about that? Is that something you would consider doing?

What benefits could you see from doing it; or do you think the negatives of having one of those plates outweigh the positives?

Why would you, or why wouldn't you get professional vanity plates?

-mrcleanscrubs

[jobellestarr]

I once worked with an arrogant transplant surgeon whose license plate said “gre8MD. Oh brother.

The best vanity plate I saw as a sports car flew by me was “Zoomnbyya”

[sevensonnets]

I recently saw two Missouri tags (I do not live in Missouri). One read I hart rehab and the other one said I gotap. Took me a minute to get the second one! My RT friend's tag is SPUTUM.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

I don't wear or display anything that identifies me as a nurse in public. If I want to get involved I can do it verbally, and my skills/knowledge will prove I'm in the nurse mafia.

In my experience, those that display EMT/RN are not the best of the best, though they want to be.

[amoLucia]

2 minutes ago, canoehead said:

In my experience, those that display EMT/RN are not the best of the best, though they want to be.

Or they THINK they are.

[adventure_rn, MSN, NP]

On 6/15/2020 at 4:45 PM, JKL33 said:

Broadcasting nursy stuff = ?

The shirts, the bags, the heart stuff all over everything, caduceus, etc. All of it, including vanity plates.

But there are some that are SO FUNNY!

I seriously love this page on Etsy, run by a PICU nurse--there are so many t-shirts that I'd love to have, but only my nurse friends would get. I wish that my hospital still let us wear t-shirts with our scrub pants.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGraytestAdventure?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=558586771&section_id=22554474&page=1#items

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The ones with the hearts/brains that have the different anatomy labels actually drawn into the illustration are super-cool.

Granted, none of them are just like, "I'm a Nurse ❤️"

[LovingLife123]

I have an RN plate. Nothing fancy. Gets me out of tickets therefore it saves me money. It’s my plate. Why should it bother a single soul on the planet what it is or says?

[Lipoma, BSN, RN]

I don't even want other people in the hospital to know I'm a nurse, much less the general public LOL. Some people make their profession their entire identity.

But if they're into that, I'm not one to judge

[Guest1144461]

Cringe, please no. The same reason I will never get a "Veteran" plate.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

I indulged in one when I finished my doctorate. What I wanted was "DRNURSE" or "DRMOM" but those were taken so I ended up with "Dr(my initials)"

The sole reason I got it was it makes me happy.

[amoLucia]

adventure - those T-shirts are funny. I think I may have run across it somewhere. TY for the smiles.

[LibraSunCNM, BSN, MSN, CNM]

20 hours ago, adventure_rn said:

But there are some that are SO FUNNY!

I seriously love this page on Etsy, run by a PICU nurse--there are so many t-shirts that I'd love to have, but only my nurse friends would get. I wish that my hospital still let us wear t-shirts with our scrub pants.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGraytestAdventure?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=558586771&section_id=22554474&page=1#items

?

The ones with the hearts/brains that have the different anatomy labels actually drawn into the illustration are super-cool.

Granted, none of them are just like, "I'm a Nurse ❤️"

Those are awesome!

[CommunityRNBSN, BSN, RN]

On 6/15/2020 at 4:39 PM, NICU Guy said:

There are a lot of things (decals) that females put in their back windows of their vehicles that identify it as a female's car.

I mean, my vanity plate (actual one, that I paid for) is my name. Which is a very female name. Like let’s pretend I’m Elizabeth (I’m not) my plate reads ELZBETH. Can’t really imagine not wanting someone to know the car belongs to a lady...?? Half the cars on the road belong to females, right?

The only problem with my plate is that I feel it removes some of my anonymity. Like if I drastically jump over a curb, or fail at parallel parking, I feel like bystanders are thinking “Dang, Elizabeth strikes again.”