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.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

First name-Middle Initial- Last name, Designation

I think my penmanship is perfectly legible, however, I've been told, the capital 'S' looks like a 'J', and the final 'h' looks like an 'l'. I also have a lot of the letter 'n' in both maiden name (which is my middle initial) and last name. Sometimes I lose track and the 'n's' start resembling a wavey line not unlike the line that someone might draw to indicate water.

[CelticGoddess, BSN, RN]

I sign CelticGoddess, RN. Except in emails to my manager, who requires our credentials in our emails. So, when I email her, it's CelticGoddess BSN-RN.

Some of my co-workers have certs so it's Nurse Lastname BSN-RN, certs. It's amusing reading the list of alphabets after names when mass emails are sent from manager.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

Your boss cannot tell you how to sign your name. If you wanted to make an X to represent your signature, it's perfectly legal, as long as you keep it consistent. It was actually my professor at OHSU that suggested we think about our signatures and how to get comfortable writing our names in fast fashion multiple times per hour (the life of an RN).

Many of my peers kept their full names in their signatures but I took my initials and made a signature that is almost impossible to forge and quite distinct. When you see it you know who it is. I changed my driver's license and all my bank signature cards and have kept it for over 20 years. Than of course, electronic signatures are a blessing...:)

I've never timed myself but it's fairly quick to put my John Hancock on a document which takes around 1 to 1.5 seconds. Let me tell you; it became a blessing in disguise.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Flegal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com%2Fsignature&ei=VFIgVaC-K8bjoATNhIHADA&usg=AFQjCNEPtlEtJq5-lSwOEfugI8zrP5NIoA&sig2=IOeJOPW_SlBIT4EDxYAAlQ&bvm=bv.89947451,d.cGU

[ixchel]

I. Last, RN

I also have to intentionally think to myself, "don't put RN!" when signing non-nursing stuff.

[edmia, BSN, RN]

I have a long name so I abbreviate to initials only followed by RN most of the time. But the things I sign are less and less. The EMR signs my full name on the important stuff.

Sent from my iPhone -- blame all errors on spellcheck

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I had a friend who not only would write RN on checks she signed, but one time she also made out a check to "Lion King" instead of Food Lion. She said the guy at the register looked at it and said to her," You must have little kids.How many times have they watched it so far?"

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

With a pen.

[proud nurse, BSN, RN]

I was thinking that I signed it first initial last name, RN.

But now that I'm at work, I see that I write first and last name, RN.

[ixchel]

With a pen.

Switch to crayon. Makes a more lasting impression.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Had a 20 y.o. Home Health patient once ( spina bifida and 'delayed mental development' ) who would sign my visit slip with all manner of names like Minnie Mouse, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Snow White........no one ever​ said a word about it. Guess as long as there was a signature on the 'patient's signature' line, nobody ever even looked at it more closely.

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

First and middle initials followed by last name and RN --- all without raising the pen from paper start to finish :)

Sent from my iPad using allnurses

[Jules A, MSN]

First initial, last name, NP and as previous poster wrote all without lifting pen.