Facebook questions.

I don't. Too much drama or potential for drama plus the risk of being tagged in inappropriate posts or items pulling to your feed/wall. Just say you reduced your FB to family and close/non-work friends.

My co-workers have a 'closed' facebook group- we use it almost exclusively to arrange trades and announce girls' night out-type social events/ births and the like. NO references to patients are allowed.

Good day, mmd32886:

meanmaryjean's idea is good; otherwise, don't friend coworkers or patients is generally sound advice to follow.

Thank you.

I friend coworkers but not managers. I never post about work though and don't list what hospital I work at on my profile. I have coworkers who friend patients! Bad idea.

I deactivated my fb for the remainder of school. We had a nursing group so everyone on our class could share information. One person complained about an instructor and a student screen shot it, turned it in to the director and they were kicked out for being unprofessional. I did not want to take any chances with fb, very easy to get in trouble.

Be very careful if you are there friends.

I have been slowly phasing out facebook altogether because it has become a distraction from "real life" for me. Everyone is different. I have found I don't miss it. But here's the thing. I generally kept coworkers OFF the facebook friends list. Here's why. There are two types of coworkers. 1) good friend who I see often out side of work and their is no need to facebook them since we catch up in person anyway. 2) coworkers who I don't see outside of work. No need to facebook them because I see them at work and can catch up on the basics over lunch. These days I only have my family and out of state friends that I want to keep in touch with on facebook, and I usually only check facebook once a week. Facebook has gooten more annoying with filling my feeds with friends likes of their friends I don't know. Can't turn these off, so I just defriend them and email or text them if I need to catch up.

Since making this post I have deleted all of my coworkers. I now have only 83 close friends and mostly family on there.

If I make friends in nursing school I may add them since there is apparently a Facebook page for our class to create study groups.

I don't have coworkers on my FB unless I was friends prior to working with them and immediately delete anyone that posts something slightly questionable. I won't lose my license or be involved in a HIPAA lawsuit over social media.