[fab4fan]

What next...implant a thermal tracking device so your employer can see all your movements at any time?

No to fingerprinting!

[nyapa]

Originally posted by dar15
we have mandatory police checks. In fact there are few postions in the classifieds (not just nursing) where this is demanded of potential employees. And I agree with this. However if mandatory fingerprinting were introduced, I would expect that EVERYONE in the community be subject to it. Kids upwards. Fairs fair. Anyone can potentally commit a crime. And while we are at it, why not do DNA screening on everyone as well?

BTW I should clarify - I am against mandatory fingerprinting. I think if nurses are to be subjected, then everyone should be. No exception.

[teeituptom]

Didnt we see this on the X Files
Fox Mulder didnt like it

[nyapa]

Interesting this topic has come up now...with mandatory fingerprinting being introduced at all airports, in the US from what I understand and it also is being planned in Australia. Funny, despite my objection to it in nursing, I dont feel at all incensed in this situation.

[Agnus]

Sorry your finger prints are not personal property. You leave them all over everthing you touch every day.

Nursing is not the only job where you get printed. You obviously have not been around much. I bet you would be surprised that every new and used car salesman gets printed. Every GI who has even a temporary and minimal security clearance gets printed. That Amazon.Com prints thier people, that many warehouse and retail jobs require prints, those in the gaming business are printed including the coctail watiress that works in those establishments. Everyone who works in NV's legal sex industry is printed right down to the enviormental serivices people and drivers. Everyone in law enforcement and most( if not all )everyone in govemrnment are printed. Right down to the guy that sweeps the floor, everyone that works in school.

It is not a violation of rights because you are not forced to submit you do not have to accept those jobs.



I have been printed so many times in my life I truly cannot remember. Does that make me like a criminal? No. My prints are on file all over this country for various reason. Am I worried? No.

We print children to aide in locating in the event of an abduction. Is that a violation of rights? No because it is something the parent initiates. It is done to protect the child. If later in life the kid is faced with a job that requires prints he is not giving up any rights.

Banks and retailers print when cashing checks and passing large bills. Where have you been living that you have not been exposed to this?

Your prints are not personal porperty they are on everthing you touch.


If you have been printed by your BON what is your problem with an employer asking for another set of prints? They are already on record. So why are you so concerned about an employer also haveing access? Thsi whole thing sounds kind of silly. You have your license and have been printed once another printing violates nothing.

[ejm99]

I'm okay w/ the fingerprinting and I live and will work as a nurse in TX.

I would want the people working w/ my child to be printed..whether it be teachers, healthcare workers or child care providers.

My only concern regarding the printing is how they will be used.

I don't believe in a fingerprinting the entire US and just using it as a 'bank' to run prints for just any ole reason.... I'm kinda on the fence...

I mean if a crime was commited against me or my family and a print was found I would be LIVID if that print wasn't run thru eveyr registry in place..whether it be thru a healthcare registry, child care registry whatever...
My belief is that your rights END when you've commited a crime. PERIOD.

The constitution is great..but I would be very supportive a NEW constitution that was constructed just to "protect" those ACCUSED of crimes...
then again..if I were wrongly accused I too woudl be shouting for them to do whatever it took to clear me...run my prints, run my dna..whatever..

and unfortunately the "honor system" of fessing up to prior problems just doesn't always work....as not everyone is as honest as they should be...and yet how is that surprising? If you were convicted of burglary you probably weren't very honest to begin w/ so why would not disclosing that info be a problem for you? does that make sense?

I'm all for personal rights...but along w/ those rights comes responsibility and not everyone is honest and forthcoming making the NEED for a print registry necessary to begin with.

I think this will make the nursing profession safer as it will weed out those that will make us ALL look bad.
I surely don't want a nurse that is of questionable character caring for MY family!

[kyutnurse]

I have a Question:
Why do some facilities want to check CREDIT REPORT???? Does that matter?????
Somebody please explain to me. Why does nurses credit report needs to be checked????
as for the background criminal check?? I think it's for patient protection. I agree with that one, if there's nothing to be ashamed of in the past, no biggie...let HR check.

[nclexhater]

I don't like it. Next thing you know they will be checking our credit history!!

[nursemary9]

I hate giving up any of our Rights; But---It just seems that with everything going on today, it has to be done!!
Also, I believe it should be anyone working with the public--from the lowest man or woman in the healthcare chain right on up to the Top!!

Other business do it, why not healthcare.

There seems to be too much going on everywhere--from big cities to small towns--to be so casual with the people we employ.

I hate it, but that's how I see it.

[Spidey's mom]

We had our fingerprints done when we got accepted into nursing school. No big deal.

If you are a Girl Scout Leader, a Boy Scout Leader, work with Little League, coach kids at the local high school, are a Sunday School teacher, a regular teacher, etc., you get fingerprinted.

I don't understand the argument that the BON should be the ones to punish offenders AFTER they become nurses and do something wrong that they have already done in the past but it was not caught BEFORE they did it again because they were not fingerprinted.

I have no problem being fingerprinted as I have nothing to hide. I DO want the people who are working with my kids to go through a background check because as I've stated elsewhere on this board, my county has the highest # of paroled child molesters in the entire state of California.

If the Boy Scout leader has to be fingerprinted, why not nurses?

Also, truck drivers have to do mandatory drug testing . .. .which my husband has no problem with as he does not do drugs.

If you have nothing to hide . . . .

steph