Visiting nurse slapped with a parking ticket :-/

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  1. Do you think Visiting Nurses should be exempt fom parking violations while on duty?

    • 13
      Visiting nurses should never get tickets on duty, they are taking care of loved ones.
    • 3
      I don't know.
    • 32
      Visiting nurses should take full responsibility for finding somewhere to park, patients come 2nd.

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Hi everyone.I am a visiting nurse. I go to the homes of multiple patient's on a daily basis. Today I was slapped with a parking ticking for double parking my car while alternate side parking was in effect. I really tried to find a parking spot. I drove around the area for over hour. Parking is extremely difficult in and city/urban area. What is a visiting nurse suppose to do in such a case?I feel like nurses should be excuse/ exempt from such tickets while on duty. Humph!Anyway can you all give me any suggestion on how I can get out of paying this $115 ticket? #lifeinnyc

Stating the obvious. Not what the OP was posting about, or for, nor necessarily the object of everyone's response.

I believe the response was accurate and concise.

Group #1 "Boo hoo for me because I do not like the consequences of my choices."

Group #2 "Don't make those choices."

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

The problem here is that a lot of people replying here are not from NY and don't fully understand the concept of double parking and alternate side parking ... AND the local understandings that evolve from it. One needs to READ the parking signs before parking. If you will need your car on a day that cars double park on one side, you just don't park on the side that double-parkers will block you. In some residential neighborhoods of NYC, all the cars are locally owned and the residents abide by this practice. Try parking on a Tuesday side of the street on a Friday and wanting to get out during the sweep times ... you will get a freaking mouthful ... unless of course you can't find the driver, in which case you're stuck!

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
Why should nurses receive an exemption permit from parking regulations?

Gee, I guess because doctors get them? :rolleyes: And I am talking visiting nurses, not ones that have 12-hour shifts at a hospital.

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The problem here is that a lot of people replying here are not from NY and don't fully understand the concept of double parking and alternate side parking ... AND the local understandings that evolve from it. One needs to READ the parking signs before parking. If you will need your car on a day that cars double park on one side, you just don't park on the side that double-parkers will block you. In some residential neighborhoods of NYC, all the cars are locally owned and the residents abide by this practice. Try parking on a Tuesday side of the street on a Friday and wanting to get out during the sweep times ... you will get a freaking mouthful ... unless of course you can't find the driver, in which case you're stuck!

I am pretty sure that most of the posters can understand the infinitely complex concept of traffic regulations relating to parking.

NYC is not the only city in the world that has complex parking regulations, not all of us ride a horse to work in the mountains of Turkey.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
NYC is not the only city in the world that has complex parking regulations, not all of us ride a horse to work in the mountains of Turkey.

Gee, I am shocked :bugeyes:

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Gee, I guess because doctors get them? :rolleyes: And I am talking visiting nurses, not ones that have 12-hour shifts at a hospital.

"Because he gets to do it" is the rationale a child would give to stay up past bed time, not a rationale why nurses giving non emergent care should be exempt from parking regulations.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
"Because he gets to do it" is the rationale a child would give to stay up past bed time, not a rationale why nurses giving non emergent care should be exempt from parking regulations.

Gee, OK .. whatever :rolleyes:

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Gee, OK .. whatever :rolleyes:

I personally would LOVE a parking exemption tag but I cannot find a rationale for one. I was hoping that you would be able to provide me with a logical, well-founded argument as to why nurses should be provided with one.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Closing down for a cooling off period.

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