State board of nursing lists nurse's adresses

Yet here is an interesting thought. In Tennesee, it's not just nurses whose addresses, etc., are available online, but ANY healthcare practitioner. In contrast, you'll never find a teacher's or attorney's info posted online.

Go figure.

Originally posted by James Huffman

H&Pmom, I would encourage you to share your concerns with the board of nursing. You'd be surprised to find that policies sometimes change with just a few people showing an interest in an issue. In the meantime, you might consider renting a p.o. box, and using that as your address for BON purposes. I'm not a freak on privacy, but that would put a layer between you and somebody trying to find where you live.

I agree, writing to the BON may produce the desired result.

This Information Superhighway has forced me to change my phone # to an unlisted #....and to have my VM taken off my cell phone. Even with that, I am STILL getting calls from telemarketers (am going to sign up for the National No-Call List).

Remember the movie "The Truman Show"?. We ARE living in a vouyeristic society, and, despite HIPPA, our private information will NEVER be private!

Alaska posts our names and numbers on its website...

I've said it before and I'll say it again

P O Box...best thing I ever rented, everything goes to that even my drivers license # (DMV hates that)

Don't need a pissed off felon showing up at my house and doing who knows what to me or my kids because I refused him 2 Tylenol 5 years ago.

Well, as far as I know, Tennessee, Georgia and California ALL give out your home address, and I resent it mightily. Not safe. Also, for those of you that don't know, you can go to the search engine Google, type in anyone's phone number with area code, and get directions to their house. Unlisted numbers are not safe from this either. I checked mine and was ok, but several friends weren't. You can have it removed though.

Mr. Huffman,

thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

I'm going to try that p.o. box idea myself.

This is some scary crappola.....

Reminds me that the dude that molested his 5 children, and I served on the jury in our small town, and he studied each of our faces for 5 days, will be gettin out of the joint in 2 more years.

Plus I worked at the same hospital his sister worked at.........

Nebraska gives your name, address, license status, date of initial licensure, birthdate, date of expiration, and they used to post National Registry (EMT) test scores! OK...it's public record, but why does it have to be so easy to access?

Oh, Nebraska also tell where you went to school and what year you graduated...sigh.

I find this rather inequitable. If this is all a matter of public record, & thus easier to access via the web, well, so be it. I want to know why all those who hold a professional license of some sort aren't included in the on-line registries.

I question whether is SHOULD all be a matter of public record. If someone needs my address, etc for a valid reason, they should be able to access it, but if Joe Blow wants to kill me for not giving him MS in the ambulance, he should have to make a little effort to find out where I live. We recently had a psych patient that went online with his laptop and kicked every nurse with less than 5 years experience out of his room. He also made a print out of each nurses info and kept a record of who was in his room and how many times and how much time they spent. I was glad to see a bed open on the psych unit in the next county...:-)