How do you sign your name?

[ohiobobcat]

This is inspired by another thread. How do you sign your name when you sign off on stuff at work? I use my first initial and full last name. Like this: O. Bobcat, RN I have a pretty unique last name, and there are no other nurses in my state with my first initial and last name.

My boss at my previous place of employment told me I needed to use my full name when I signed, but I never changed the way I sign after she told me that (I'm such a rebel!)

I use my full name including middle initial when I sign non-nursing related things.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I rarely sign anything because all the documentation I do is electronic. Sometimes I do First Name Last Name, RN, sometimes K Last Name, RN. I usually sign admission agreements and insurance appeals with my full name and lab reqs with my first initial last name.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

And funny enough I just had to reprint and sign a note to my daughters school b/c I kept putting CT Pixie, RN. ughhh!

More than once, I've signed school permission slips, credit cards, my taxes, the consent/release for my tattoos, etc., as M. Meriwhen. RN-BC. Habit :)

[Annie Wilkes RN]

A.Wilkes, RN

[theantichick]

A(garble) C(garble), RN. My kiddo laughs at me every time I sign a credit card slip and tack the RN on the end. I do EMR now so I don't sign as much as I did at the paper charting job, but once you do it for a while, it kinda sticks. :)

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

R. Vee, RN.

I don't write checks anymore, but when I did, I tried to remember to sign Ruby V. Vee -- usually came out R(illegible scribble) V. V(striaght horizontal line). (Thank goodness for online bill pay!)

[Angeljho, MSN, NP]

I use my first initial and full last name followed by RN. I don't use script. I sign in print - if that makes sense lol.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

I still "sign" things even in my electronic chart. AChick, RN. That's what we were taught to do.

[Nibbles1]

Old job: first initial and last name. New/current job FULL NAME! First, middle, and last name along with credentials.

[pfongk]

first initial surname all in cursive then my role and in brackets my surname printed afterwards.

Unless it's for TAFE in which case I have a scanned "signature" on my computer I can insert in, it's basically the same but at a different angle and smiley face doodle on there as well.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

Brillo Head, RN

And like so many others in this thread, this is also how I usually sign permission notes for my son's school, banking paperwork, etc. Even when I consciously think, "This is not for work, don't add the RN at the end" as I pick up the pen, nine times out of ten that darned "RN" still ends up on the paperwork after my name.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I go with first initial, last initial follow by a wavy line. I figure if docs can sign prescriptions totally illegibly, I can sign discharge papers illegibly.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

First, middle, last initial illegible squiggle, RN.