I was wondering if anyone has heard about this or is experiencing this as well. I work on a cardiac tele unit with 52 private rooms. It's a very large unit and it has two distinct nursing stations. On each nursing station there is a board by the secertaries listing the room number, patient's name- it's also our way of listing what nurse and tech has assigned to them. We use to list the patient's last name, and if there are two people with same last name we would add a first initial. Now we are being told that it's not HIPAA compliant to list patient's name on the board. We now have to list the first 3 letters of their last name and the first initial. Now, what I don't understand is that anyone can call the hospital and find out if so-so is admitted, unless they chose to be a no-info patient. How is this any different? We are not listing any more type of identifying information other than a name which has multiple purpose- quick reference, let's the docs look and see where their patient's are, let's people know who the nurse is for a specific patient. What do other places do to display information? Any ideas how to make this better- I mean, a better way to display our assingments?