Nursing in Texas- Full Name legality on badge

Thanks for the replies. I am not specifically saying that nurses are the only ones that encounter issues relating to ones privacy at home or ones protection because of the name badge.
This is a nursing forum and therefore I am only bringing up the issue related to me and my profession as a nurse, and the other nurses out there that may go or have gone through the fears I have.
I am also worried that since I live where there are drug cartel members that have been treated at our hospital, and other hospital staff that work in Mexico have been killed for caring for a member or family member of the drug cartel, that we too on the US side are at risk.
Say we took care of "maria" and she was a grandmother of the drug cartel, and say "maria" did not like our care we provided. Easily one of us could be the next on a drug cartel hit list.
I did not want to bring up the issues between countries here, as a nurse myself I do not judge whom I care for as long as I did the best that I could and the patient was safe under my care...however, this is a huge issue for the city I work for and with the increasing violence both here and across the border I am scared.
Has anyone heard of the hundreds of women murdered in Juarez Mexico?
I know this has been going on for years and years; I guess I had never thought about it affecting me until I recieved that terrifying phone call that day.
I thank you vamedic4 for clarifying what is legal and what is not. I appreciate that, because when I went to my safety officer, he said that we HAD to have the entire name on the badge.
I think maybe a cute little button or trinket over my name might do me some good here in this case, where I have to protect myself.

No there have not been any related injuries here in the US. I can literally drive into Mexico in about 20 minutes from where I live, I can also see it when I am on the freeway every morning. I see certain MD's bringing in Mexican residents and giving them the suites and telling our staff to treat them very well. There is a political issue here too. Some of the MD's recieved help from cartel families to pay for school in turn they would help the families if they ever got sick, so they come to the US and get healthcare. They even pay out of pocket to be seen in the US. I dont discriminate, I do my job and treat everyone with the same attention they deserve and need. However, this is disturbing as follows:
I have been seeing on the international news front that just 20 minutes away from me (in another country of course) the county hospital in Juarez has had MD's nurses and other staff murdered. There is also a thing going around (there is a name for it) where a cartel member will not kill you if you pay them a fee monthly, no fee, you die. A friend that I work with went to a funeral where the healthcare provider was murdered by crossfire as the cartel was trying to kill someone this healthcare provider was sitting next to.
In El Paso TX local news, our county hospital was taking care of a Mexican political leader who was brought here by the US government in order to protect this man. He was on the hit list of the cartel group and in efforts to help aid the relations between us and Mexico they let our tax dollars pay for him to recieve healthcare, and to have police and military troops stand outside of the hospital until he left.
This stuff has not quite creeped over here to the US side yet, but yes I am very worried that with these few instances it will get worse...
I wrote a letter to my safety officer and we will see.

I am not advocating for other professions here, nor comparing myself to a lawyer, police officer (which only have first and last initials on their badges), firefighters (which have thier first initial and last name), I am advocating for nurses here. So I am worried about the safety of nurses and patients.

Buglady,
I am not assuming this guy found me because I am a nurse, he found me BECAUSE I am a nurse. He met me in the hospital and found my name there and was saying sexual things related to my profession. I am not trying to hide behind anything. I dont think anyone of us are hiding by wanting to have our initials on our name tags, what are we hiding from? We are doing the best we can to care for those that need our help, at the same time patients deserve protection and so do nurses. I am only relating this to nursing and not as a lawyer and of that such, because this is the profession I am in. It bothered you when that predator,sicko called your house right, well I too feel the same way as you probably did when I got my sick call too.

Babylady,
I would not be hiding from anything, but this would be as a way of protecting myself. What would you do if you recieved a phone call with a sicko saying sexually explicit things to you and he found you at work?
Let me ask you this...we need our full names on our name badges to have respect? To be a professional we need to have our full names on our badges? Why is not the work we do enough for you or me or anyone to say we are professionals? I dont need my full name on a badge to know I do the best job I can in caring for patients, I dont need it because I know in my heart I am a professional.

Thank you for your help.

Wow that is awful! I hope and pray that no one has to go through what you have. I understand we can do whatever we can to protect ourselves- in my opinion it is by changing our name badge- but still if they want to find us they can.
Its terrible that your employers as well as mine basically said the same things. "If it happens again," kinda business.
I spoke to my security office and they basically told me that it might be worth it to have a gun at home. He told me a few horror stories that had to do with other nursing staff. One nurse even had to shoot her offender.

I tend to want to blame the public/media/commercial entities as well for this issue. I was looking for a Halloween costume this last year and there were tons of "sexy nurse" costumes, as well as other professionals turned into sexual Halloween get-ups.

All I can say at this point from reading the threads is that really no matter what I do or what we do, they can find us. What will it take to get rid of these internet sites to remove us off of the list so they can find us?