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we have a charge nurse that had business cards made up to give to pt's with her name and personal cell phone andher home address.. can you believe it??? she hands them out to patients.. i don't think the nurse manager is aware.. but i wish she would. this nurse is very controlling and vindictive and i don't want to be near herevery body has trouble with her.. she is mean , rude and nasty .. and thinks she is just the cats pajamas.
yes i wonder what she's up to.. she is a wack job... i'm turning her in on friday... someone showed me the card then i couldn't find it anymore.. maybe another one will turn up. but i will turn her in.. she's a foolAll of the above, plus she's possibly opening herself up to future legal problems if she's giving advice over the phone from home without being able to actually see the patient. I'm sure the facility has no protocol for her acting as a telephonic nurse for them in her off hours.
Her lack of forethought is breathtaking.
The thoughts of patients/family members showing up at her door, or worse yet, waiting in her house for her to come home from work, should have made her discard this lamebrain idea immediately.
I have business cards provided by my employer. They have my office information on them; the only thing personal is my name. That's true of every other business card I've ever seen for anyone in healthcare, too.
Besides, there's no reason she should be handing out business cards. If she were, say, a wound/stoma nurse that patients might need to talk to after discharge, then it would make sense- but only with the hospital contact information.
Beyond strange.
muffie, RN
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oh my that is special