Linda Dixon

Comment on: Protected 'nurse' title some way off

Linda Dixon's comment 3-Mar-2010 11:05 am

All this talk about who can or cannot be called nurse seems so ridiculous. The term nurse was originally used as an adjunct to other words e.g. 'wet', 'nursery' way before 'to nurse' became an adjective. Surely it is more important in this age of equality, diversity, and every other 'ity' we can think of that we take into account how others see us. I would rather that all my colleagues be seen and addressed as nurse, by those we are caring for rather than have to try and explain to them why they can call me nurse but not the person I am working with. We ask those we care for how they wish to be addressed, and I think if we ask them how they want to address us the answer will be unanimous. I may be a dinosaur but I am proud to be called nurse, and equally proud that my colleagues are called nurse because none of us works in isolation, and putting barriers up between 'us and them' denegrates the call for equality. If you are so precious that you think only registered nurses can be called nurse then how are you going to rewrite the english language: nursing mothers, nursery nurses, wet nurses, veterinary nurses, maternity nurses, (feel free to add your own nurses). They all have one thing in common, THEY CARE for someone or something, rather than their own ego's and if your ego is too big then I feel so sorry for you.