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I recently took the NCLEX in Tennessee. In order to see if I passed, I have been checking the TN Dept of health web site. Anyone can put in anybody's name to see if the person has a valid license. Along with license info, the site also lists adresses. The hospital where I am employeed requires our full name to be on our ID badges( they say it is a Joint Comission requirement). While most pts aren't a concern, sooner or later, everyone encounters a pt that you would not want to be able to find your address. Am I being unreasonable, or would anyone else be concerned about your address being available to anyone who wanted to find it?
Originally posted by James HuffmanH&Pmom, I would encourage you to share your concerns with the board of nursing. You'd be surprised to find that policies sometimes change with just a few people showing an interest in an issue. In the meantime, you might consider renting a p.o. box, and using that as your address for BON purposes. I'm not a freak on privacy, but that would put a layer between you and somebody trying to find where you live.
I agree, writing to the BON may produce the desired result.
This Information Superhighway has forced me to change my phone # to an unlisted #....and to have my VM taken off my cell phone. Even with that, I am STILL getting calls from telemarketers (am going to sign up for the National No-Call List).
Remember the movie "The Truman Show"?. We ARE living in a vouyeristic society, and, despite HIPPA, our private information will NEVER be private!
Alaska posts our names and numbers on its website...
I've said it before and I'll say it again
P O Box...best thing I ever rented, everything goes to that even my drivers license # (DMV hates that)
Don't need a pissed off felon showing up at my house and doing who knows what to me or my kids because I refused him 2 Tylenol 5 years ago.
Well, as far as I know, Tennessee, Georgia and California ALL give out your home address, and I resent it mightily. Not safe. Also, for those of you that don't know, you can go to the search engine Google, type in anyone's phone number with area code, and get directions to their house. Unlisted numbers are not safe from this either. I checked mine and was ok, but several friends weren't. You can have it removed though.
This is some scary crappola.....
Reminds me that the dude that molested his 5 children, and I served on the jury in our small town, and he studied each of our faces for 5 days, will be gettin out of the joint in 2 more years.
Plus I worked at the same hospital his sister worked at.........
I question whether is SHOULD all be a matter of public record. If someone needs my address, etc for a valid reason, they should be able to access it, but if Joe Blow wants to kill me for not giving him MS in the ambulance, he should have to make a little effort to find out where I live. We recently had a psych patient that went online with his laptop and kicked every nurse with less than 5 years experience out of his room. He also made a print out of each nurses info and kept a record of who was in his room and how many times and how much time they spent. I was glad to see a bed open on the psych unit in the next county...:-)
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Yet here is an interesting thought. In Tennesee, it's not just nurses whose addresses, etc., are available online, but ANY healthcare practitioner. In contrast, you'll never find a teacher's or attorney's info posted online.
Go figure.