In my current staff nurse RN position my badge says Maggie and underneath my name it says nurse in lower case letters. Not even RN, just 'nurse'. We have several excellent night shift LPNs on Med Surg and my badge is identical to theirs. I don't mean to sound elitist it's just that we are in different roles.
(Please don't dogpile on me for mentioning the LPNs ok? They are my buddies. This is about badges not who is a better nurse.)
At first I thought 'whatever.' The hospital management made a statement that they are opposed to having "cv information" on hospital id badges.
My credentials are BSN, CCRN. My department is MICU.
I'm curious if this is happening in other hospitals because I just dont get it. I dont want the badges to say AA or AS RN, that is unnecessary. But RN would certainly be reassuring to the pts. If I'm sick I would be thankful to see that CCRN or CEN or CNOR on my nurse's badge. It represents competence and a commitment to continuing education.
I've known facilities to do the minimal ID badge info as a definite ploy to keep pts and others in the dark re staff credentials. Like they don't want anyone to know that they utilize LPNs as well as RNs. The public does know there is a difference, although I doubt they could define exactly what the difference is. I believe it to be a deliberate attempt by admin to blur the nsg staff into one big generic homogenized (sp?) employee.
Good staff is good staff just as bad staff is bad staff regardless of initials & credentials. But I do think there is some hanky panky deception afoot with those kind of badges. (I'll bet they have the facility name in big, bold, gold embossed letters with fancy logo art and some advertising slogan!)
Just curious - how are the CNAs or techs identified?
Ours used to display all our credentials before our logo was redone and we got new badges. I was upset it was taken away as I had just earned my MSN and wanted to display that. However, it is something I share w my patients when appropriate. Next to my picture it says my name, RN and underneath my picture it says staff nurse, transplant med/surg. We also have the large hang tags that say RN.
Whenever a facility issues badges sans credentials, I'm always suspicious that the motivation is for families/patients to assume everyone with scrubs is a RN.
Whenever a facility issues badges sans credentials, I'm always suspicious that the motivation is for families/patients to assume everyone with scrubs is a RN.
But thats what the different color of scrubs are for.
Mine just says That Guy, RN on the name badge. I had to add Emergency underneath it. Im proud of where I work.
Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
But thats what the different color of scrubs are for.
No, no it's not. Different color scrubs do not help patients identify who is who. Different color scrubs are about management putting staff into their place and showing their power.
The larger RN or LPN hang tags are what helps patients identify who is their nurse.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Whenever a facility issues badges sans credentials, I'm always suspicious that the motivation is for families/patients to assume everyone with scrubs is a RN.
My scrubs have a big white embroidered "RN" on my chest. All of our scrubs have our title embroidered on them.
I don't think pts deep down really pay attn & keep track of scrubs colors. Esp when they vary from facility to facility. That was ONE GOOD THING about our wearing our whites and caps way back in the dinosaur age. Pts knew who the nurses were just by sight down the hall.
klone, MSN, RN
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And in case anyone has a question about that:
http://www.nursecredentialing.org/DisplayCredentials-Brochure.pdf