[NPInfo] Re:NP Laura on Fox News!

Sun Sep 2 22:00:55 PDT 2007

nurse (nûrs) n. 1. A person educated and trained to care for the sick or
disabled. 2.a. A woman employed to suckle children other than her own; a
wet nurse. b. A woman employed to take care of a child; a nursemaid. 3.
One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means: “Town life
is the nurse of civilization” (C.L.R. James). 4. Zoology. A worker ant or
bee that feeds and cares for the colony's young. --nurse v. nursed,
nurs·ing, nurs·es. --tr. 1. To serve as a nurse for: nursed the patient
back to health. 2. To feed at the breast; suckle. 3. To try to cure by
special care or treatment: nurse a cough with various remedies. 4. To
treat carefully, especially in order to prevent pain: He nursed his
injured knee by shifting his weight to the other leg. 5. To manage or
guide carefully; look after with care; foster: nursed her business through
the depression. See Synonyms at  nurture. 6. To bear privately in the
mind: nursing a grudge. 7. To consume slowly, especially in order to
conserve: nursed one drink for the whole evening. --intr. 1. To serve as a
nurse. 2. To take nourishment from the breast; suckle. [Middle English
norice, nurse, wet nurse, from Old French norrice, from Vulgar Latin
*nutrºcia, from Late Latin n¿trºcia, from feminine of Latin n¿trºcius,
that suckles, from n¿trºx, n¿trºc-, wet nurse. See (s)n³u- below.]
--nurs“er n.
————————————————————
 (s)n³u-. Important derivatives are: nourish, nurse, nutrient, nutrition.
(s)n³u-. To swim, flow, let flow, whence suckle.  Contracted from *sna
u-;
extension of sn³-. 1. Suffixed basic form *n³w-yo-. NAIAD, from Greek
Naias, fountain nymph, probably from naein, to flow. 2. Variant root form
*(s)neu(
)-. NEUSTON, from Greek nein, to swim. 3. Zero-grade form *(s)n¿-
(< *snu
-) in suffixed form *n¿-trº (with feminine agent suffix). NOURISH,
NURSE, NURTURE, NUTRIENT, NUTRIMENT, NUTRITION, NUTRITIOUS, NUTRITIVE,
from Latin n¿trºx, nurse, and n¿trºre, to suckle, nourish. [In Pokorny
sn³- 971.]


> Nah, Laura, stick with what you have chosen (as if I need to tell you
> that).
> What gives with the aversion to "nurse"? Do we not elevate the term by our
> use of it? Over time, people begin to learn that "nurse" means more than
> the
> awful images conjured up by Hollywood sensationalists and pornographers.
> It
> links the practitioner in the advanced clinical role to the sepia-toned
> images of nursing from the 19th century--the positive images of
> strength-in-femininity, as well as images of competence. This is a
> semiotic
> choice: do we signal that the NP is an elitist role that distances us from
> our cultural roots, and the source of our social power? Or do we embrace
> nurse as a signal of power and care, and broadcast that to society at
> large?
>
> E.D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of Mavis Hampton
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:07 AM
> To: NP Info
> Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Re:NP Laura on Fox News!
>
> Why not refer to yourself as NP Laura? It avoids the monikers doctor or
> nurse and is still quite accurate.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Thiem <ljthiem at yahoo.com>
> To: NP Info <npinfo at nurse.net>; ACC <acc-circle at listserve.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2007 10:11:26 PM
> Subject: [NPInfo] Re:NP Laura on Fox News!
>
>
> Folks, please understand that I have forwarded myself as a nurse.  I
> deliberately called myself Nurse Laura to get away from the "Dr. Laura"
> tag
> with which many wanted to label me (no thanks to the popularity of Laura
> Schlessinger).
>
> I don't permit people to marginalize or denigrate nursing.  We create the
> environment in which we practice.  If we continue to allow our colleagues
> to
> perpetuate the "just a nurse" image we do ourselves a great injustice.
>
> Nurses rank above physicians in trusted professions.  We need to take that
> and run with it.  There is a subtle shift away from physician centered
> care.
> People (patients) are seeing that different providers are capable of
> providing their health care. I stand firmly in the face of "would you
> rather
> see..." and say "I can do that and do it well--give nurses credit for what
> we do"..  We need to take credit (and give credit) for what we do.
>
> I am a nurse, if you want to see a physician you need to go somewhere
> else--may I help you make an appointment? ;-D
>
> Laura, NP, Missouri
>
>
>
> Carla Anderson <carla_rayne at yahoo.com> wrote: It is awesome what Laura
> does,
> and overall is a pretty good article, but it still makes it sound like she
> is a "nurse" working where others dont, and that she has "some skills"
> that
> are helpful in rural areas... Laura you are awesome, I just get mad at
> these
> writers, they need to put in bold Nurse Pracititioner, and spend a
> paragraph
> on it, and it need to be in the Headline too, not just Nurse.. CarlaNP
>
> Jeffrey Hazzard  wrote:  We MUST jettison the 'nurse' name. This video
> makes
> it clear to me. We need a new name and so do PAs.
> Jeff, NP
>
>
>
>
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