How many passwords?

[RNperdiem, RN]

In our computerized workplaces, it seems I need to remember more and more passwords for Labs, nursing charts, order entry, email etc. I have counted 7 passwords I have for work.

How many passwords do you have?

[SteveNNP, MSN, NP]

4 passwords

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Just two - one for charting and my email, one for the Pyxis. I just switch back and forth between two, which may not be the brightest, but they're pretty obscure.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

I now have 30 different passwords for various programs and websites I need to perform my work in homecare....ridiculous.

Also wear the hat of security officer so have the pleasure of creating and resetting about 75 persons passwords ...... changed 2 tonight before I left office.

[suanna]

At work I currently have 4. The problem isn't that I have so many but that they have to be changed every so often (quarterly for some, Q mos for others, never for another). You can't use the same password for the quarterly change one if you have used it in the past year. I'm afraid to go on vacation- I'll never remember all those passwords if I don't use them every week.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

At work I currently have 4. The problem isn't that I have so many but that they have to be changed every so often (quarterly for some, Q mos for others, never for another). You can't use the same password for the quarterly change one if you have used it in the past year. I'm afraid to go on vacation- I'll never remember all those passwords if I don't use them every week.

I read somewhere that a good way to do passwords is to pick a short string of letters you'll remember, but that's random, say SDSQ would be one for me, and no, I won't tell you why! Then you pick another short, totally random string of letters and numbers for EACH password and combine them. Then you can write down the second strings and keep them with you, but it would be useless to anyone who didn't know the first bit. You'd have a different password for each application, and they'd be written down so you wouldn't have to remember them, but no one could use them.

[Chaya, ASN, RN]

A user name and 2 passwords, which needs to be changed every three months, and never at the same time. As near as I can tell you can NEVER repeat them. I need to go through 7-9 screens every time to get lab results or whatever, and if I leave the screen idle for more than a couple of minutes while I am compiling this info, or looking up something I need to enter, or calling a Doc on it, it shuts you down and you have to start all over again! Grr! Our system makes me crazy- can't live with it, can't live without it!