[EricTAMUCC-BSN]

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[teeituptom]

Define rights
!. you have a right to live
2. you have a right to die

3 Anything else is GRAVY inbetween

[EricTAMUCC-BSN]

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[Monica RN,BSN]

Background checks are mandatory at our facility. Fingerprints iare done if you have not been in Florida 5 years, and repeated if you move away and move back again. I think it is a good idea. A background record does not necessary disqualify an applicant, especially if they are up front about what the background will show. Honesty is worth more than finding an arrest record on discovery, which then results in termination. It's better to protect our co-workers and clients to have the prints/background, then take a chance on the unforseen.

[renerian]

I cannot tell you how many times I ran prints and found out lots of reasons not to hire someone. I have seen it all, murder, rape, theft, assault you name it.

renerian

[VivaLasViejas]

I wouldn't like having to be fingerprinted to get a nursing license or a job in nursing (after all, how many DOCTORS have to go through it??), but I don't feel it violates privacy as much as, say, having a potential employer pull a credit report.......or demand a urine test! That one REALLY gets under my skin, as I feel it is nobody's business what I do on my own time. No, I don't do any illegal drugs (at least, not anymore ), but I do take the occasional benzodiazepine when I'm off duty, and don't believe I should have to disclose this to my employer.

And that's all I have to say about THAT.

[EricTAMUCC-BSN]

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[Sarah Kat]

I don't feel fingerprinting is imposing on my rights. Now if they wanted to take my DNA and keep THAT on file, now I certainly wouldn't agree with THAT...

[Monica RN,BSN]

We also do mandatory drug screens before we hire, and if someone is hurt on the job.( We use a saliva swab test. )If you have nothing to hide, it should not matter.
If you have a script for any substance that will materialize on the test, you are safe.

As for the Doctors, they have to be printed and background checked before they can take medical boards, ( at least in Fla.)

You don't need prints to do a background check, but you do need them to do a level II screening which checks Nationwide, not just the state you are in, which is all you get on a basic background check.

I think it is not a violation when it comes to safety of coworkers and patients. Would you want to be working with a rapist and/or a crack addict???

[memphispanda]

Well, here in TN we require fingerprinting on people working in child care already. I actually think it's a good idea to fingerprint people who are directly responsible for another person's care and could cause them harm without anyone else knowing about it.