Here's a storytime on why I do not tell people that I'm a nurse.

Here's a storytime on why I do not tell people that I'm a nurse. When I gave birth to my son, he had jaundice. And his jaundice was getting worse instead of getting better, which is another story for another day. And our team was debating whether or not to discharge us home or to keep us in the hospital. Now, don't get me wrong, we were ready to go home. We had been there for six days. So as our team is in the room debating whether or not we should be discharged or what the plan is going to be, the doctor looks at me and she goes, are you a nurse? You know, I had been keeping that under wraps the whole time. I don't, I don't like to say that I'm a nurse. I don't know. It might have been something I said that kind of triggered her thought, or I think it's possible that she used to work at the hospital I used to work at way back when. So I was like, yes, I'm a nurse. And she was like, oh, okay, you're good. We can discharge you, do a blood test tomorrow, and you know, as long as everything's tracking good, y'all are good. Now, although I wanted to go home, this terrified me. Because me being a nurse was what was making or breaking whether or not we could go home. That was scary. And I find sometimes that although I was glad to go home, but I find sometimes that when your healthcare team knows that you are a nurse, you just don't get the same level of like, I don't know, patient education and all of these other things, the same level of support, because they feel like, oh, she got it, she got it. I don't have it. Yes, on paper, I'm a nurse, but also I haven't worked at the bedside in like seven, eight years. I'm rusty, I'm out of practice. So treat me like a regular, regular person. I don't know, is it just me? Do you guys tell people that you're a nurse, or do you just keep it to yourself?