I received an recruitment email from Delta Healthcare Providers. I replied and ask that the recruited please address me by my title in the future. I think we deserve professional respect. I was nice about it and said "please". :)
I have left a message for his supervisor and I'll update this post when I get it.
Here is the response.
On Feb 24, 2013, at 7:53 PM, XYZ wrote:
If your name is ABC I'll refer to you by the name your parents gave to you.
Signed XYZ
Let me ask you a question. :)Do you address physicians by their first name or by Dr.?
Please address me by my title.
Dr. ABC, DNAP, CRNA, FNP-C
Nurse Anesthetist/Nurse Practitioner
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Dear ABC,
I have an exciting Nurse Practitioner Or Physician Assistant position to discuss with you! Please review the minimum requirements and the details for the position below. If you do not meet the requirements, please do not respond to this email in order to give those qualified applicants an opportunity of reaching me first. If you are actively looking for a different position, please feel free to review our website and apply directly.
Specializes in Anesthesia, Pain, Emergency Medicine.
First, the non NPs, don't bother replying. No offense but your opinion does not mean much.
For the others, you are sadly missing the point. The point is the snarky response to my polite request. The point is not about not being called Dr., although we could have a separate discussion about professionalism.
I actually thought NPs would want to know about a company with this type of attitude, I was wrong about this particular forum.
So for those of you having reading comprehension issues, re-read slowly and realize what the point is.
Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.
I think the OP got bent out of the frame because of the snotty reply. So what? Just don't do business with them. I have had a few companies rub me the wrong way. I just don't take their calls and don't do business with them. I don't go around whining about it.
BTW, I am of the direct opposite opinion as traumarus though.
Specializes in Anesthesia, Pain, Emergency Medicine.
You may consider it whining while I consider it defending our practice and furthering the NP cause. It is why I whine to get full staff membership and whine to get the practice privileges NP deserve. It is why I whine to our representatives about NP practice. It is why I whine and support my PA Collegues in their battles.
And yes, I whine to correct clueless head hunters who refer to NPs as midlevel practitioners.
I'm not an NP (not yet anyway) but I think that the OP makes a valid point. The OP politely asked the recruiter to address him/her by his/her proper title (Dr. ABC) and instead of the recruiter politely apologizing and complying with the request the recruiter had to make a quip that was rude and unprofessional. I think that if you earned a title then you should be addressed by that title, especially in the professional setting. It seems like a basic concept in business and professionalism to me.
I might want to avoid this recruiting company because they wont adress me with my professional name?
Give me some real issues please. Something that affects my license, my pay check, their morals they promised. Some real issues please. The health care field is in so much corruption, i got no time to be walking around expeting to be called by my professional name, with all the other crap going on around us.
This is a hard fought battle among APNs in all specialties. I have several friends that have their doctorate and when we are in the professional setting, I 100% call them Doctor - they did the work, they earned the title.
Privately and one on one, I of course address them by first name. I agree with NomadCRNA that if we, as APNs denigrate our doctorate degrees, then we are never going to be considered professional. I am very fortunate to be in a practice where APNs and PAs are treated as equals and very much respected and compensated.
You may consider it whining while I consider it defending our practice and furthering the NP cause. It is why I whine to get full staff membership and whine to get the practice privileges NP deserve. It is why I whine to our representatives about NP practice. It is why I whine and support my PA Collegues in their battles.
And yes, I whine to correct clueless head hunters who refer to NPs as midlevel practitioners.
Thank you! We should all be whining to be treated with respect.
WHo cares how they address you in a mass produced email? I want to know how much they're going to pay me. Get the name on the check right! Yeah I get annoyed at times about being called "the nurse" but eh. Beats the other things I've been called in my career!
netglow, ASN, RN
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OP, you just sound like this is your first job ever. Your post made me laugh. And you made the agency peeps laugh too.