[BSNtobe2009]

Originally Posted by whiskeygirl

Why does the general public need to be able to look up our license information? Make it easier for the public to report issues directly to the B.O.N, but don't publish our information on the net.
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Yup, that's exactly why.

[Agnus]

If you truly are afraid of some "crack pot" locating you stay off the internet. Do not have a phone with a listing. Do not give out your address ever to anyone. Do not have your address printed on your checks. Do not have your address of your diver's license. I could go on and on.

As I said earlier I have found complete strangers who use a fake moniker online and have been able to positively locate them within minutes.

Oh yea, when you go home from work don't go home you may be followed. (it has happened)

I think a little reality check is needed. You can be located by anyone if they want to badly enough. Let's face it generally you are not that interesting to people for them to do this. Crack pots have stalked nurses true. Generally they do not go to the trouble of looking you up on the BON web site to find you because there are easier ways of doing it. Like finding you at work or following you home. Or checking out your car or license plate #, etc.

[BSNtobe2009]

I agree. I don't think a nurse or a doctor is any more likely to be stalked than the general population. A last name doesn't matter either, and considering my first name is EXTREMELY common and my last name isn't...I would GLADLY have my last name on a name badge rather than a complaint getting filed and someone thinking it's me when it isn't.

[IMustBeCrazy]

Originally Posted by BSNtobe2009

I agree. I don't think a nurse or a doctor is any more likely to be stalked than the general population. A last name doesn't matter either, and considering my first name is EXTREMELY common and my last name isn't...I would GLADLY have my last name on a name badge rather than a complaint getting filed and someone thinking it's me when it isn't.

I disagree. If you are doing your job, you are spending wayyy more time with the pt than the MD which means making yourself more of a target, not less. Being that I work in psych, NO WAY am I giving out my last name etc. My phone is also unlisted. I'm not getting pulled into someone's delusion, thank you very much!

Regarding getting a complaint filed against me for something I didn't do...that is called LIBEL and defamation of character. I would have absolutely no qualms and would immediately file a countersuit.

[Agnus]

I agree you must protect yourself more if you are in psyc. However, with that said. The BON is a consumer protection agency not a nurse protection agency. Too many nurses think the BON is there to serve the nurse it is not. That is the job of your State Nurses Association.

As far as psyc. When I did my psyc rotation in LPN school and again in RN school I ran into psyc patients whom I knew and who knew me outside of the hospital. They knew where I lived already. There are just too many psyc. patients out there. This is a small world and it is not unheard of to find your neighbor is psycotic.
Use common sense but be realistic.