Too much stuff behind ID badge!!

[NurseEric81]

Does your employer require you to have placards behind your ID badge? Including my ID, we have to keep 9 things on our clips including a mission and values card. Why, oh why, so much stuff?

[hemonurseholly]

Exactly. I keep my work bag with pens stethoscope and whatever else I may need on the windowsill. It's not near patients and I need my stuff. As for badges. I covered my last name with tape. I don't need anyone creeping me. If they want it for a legit reason then they will get it. They only need to know what I go by and my designation. And as for the other cards. We don't need to carry them with us.

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

Ours is on a little zip card, and mine's developed a droop

[Wave Watcher]

Yes! I have ID badge (2), Keys (6), Emergency code sheet and it really makes my neck start to hurt. Not to mention I sound like a prison guard walking down the hallway with my keys rattling! Ugh.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Our management keeps adding more and more useless junk to our lanyards too. The latest was a cheat sheet for our new standard drug concentrations - which are anything but standard, which is why we need a cheat sheet. We also have 2 photo ID cards, an "old" one and a "new" one. When our system amalgamated our "old" ones didn't have the correct logo on them and they also didn't have our new employee numbers on them, a requirement for the Peoplesoft payroll system we all came under. Okay, we thought... new ID card, let's chuck the old one. Wrong. They didn't program our restricted access and parking onto the new ones so we have to use both. I have the two ID cards, my nursing school pin and my certification pin and that's all. It's still enough to create a peep show if I'm not careful.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Our management keeps adding more and more useless junk to our lanyards too. The latest was a cheat sheet for our new standard drug concentrations - which are anything but standard, which is why we need a cheat sheet. We also have 2 photo ID cards, an "old" one and a "new" one. When our system amalgamated our "old" ones didn't have the correct logo on them and they also didn't have our new employee numbers on them, a requirement for the Peoplesoft payroll system we all came under. Okay, we thought... new ID card, let's chuck the old one. Wrong. They didn't program our restricted access and parking onto the new ones so we have to use both. I have the two ID cards, my nursing school pin and my certification pin and that's all. It's still enough to create a peep show if I'm not careful.

That two ID cards business is beyond ridiculous! I'd be down in security asking them to program restricted access and parking into the new ID ASAP. You know they can do it, because they aren't issuing two IDs to the new employees!

[proud nurse, BSN, RN]

Thank JCAHO. If you think your hospital wants to spend money on all that badge rattle, you are mistaken. Time to get lawyers & bureaucrats (on a funny aside my phone autocorrected to "burro rats") out of the way of those of us on the front-lines of healthcare!

It autocorrected it because your phone knows the truth, lol.