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Is there anyone besides me out there that is afraid to post work related happenings for fear that your co-workers may also be on this site and recognize who wrote it? and then there could be retribution? Just curious....

Specializes in ICU of all kinds, CVICU, Cath Lab, ER..

Hello... is there an American flag on the flagpole outside the hospital entrance of the hospital at which you work? How many people have died for the right to express an individual's opinion?

99 percent of the incidents/complaints/problems that we discuss on this website are most certainly known by the powers that be in the hospitals/clinics/schools, etc. where we work. If Human Resources and our nursing supervisors continue to bury their heads in the sand, they will have to come up with some serious excuses when something comes out in the news.

Honesty is always the best policy; it takes courage to stand up and say "YES - I said it", but you know what? I have never, ever suffered because I admitted I had a complaint or criticism to make. You need to do it in the right way: professionally, quietly, and within the chain of command.

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Hmmm.....I don't give specific enough information to track back to me, I don't believe. I think enough information is changed before I post it that it's not as if a co-worker could read it and go "Hey, that's SoAndSo!!". Beyond that, if someone DID figure out it was me, I have nothing to hide from what I've written here. Complaints about working conditions are known quantities. Complaints about co-workers, the same. And those conditions and co-workers are in EVERY hospital in the country, from what I've seen here! ;)

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

the stories i tell on this forum are usually 10-30 years old. anything newer is disguised as much as possible, although the opinions stated are my actual opinions!

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Is there anyone besides me out there that is afraid to post work related happenings for fear that your co-workers may also be on this site and recognize who wrote it? and then there could be retribution? Just curious....

Yep. I would also worry once they knew I was posting here and that everything I posted would be watched from then on out.

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One of my co-workers figured me out. LOL

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