Robin, I agree with you that you should try to get to know Pattey better before you spoke to her about her language and how it affects the appearance of her skills and nursing in general. It may even behoove you to bring one of your old nursing books like LPN to RN Transitions to show her and remind her of the core values of nursing. Letting her read the quote from the "ANA Code for Nurses Statements: 1. Modeling and valuing nursing: The nurse participates in the profession's efforts to protect the public from misinformation and misrepresentation and to maintain the integrity of nursing " (Harrington and Terry, 2013, p. 385), might remind her that how we appear to others not only affects us but affects our profession as well. I also would
