Id Badges

Shellsie · Oct 7, 2003

our name badges say

First name

RN

whole name

department /title

we have a reward system where if you get so many good "comment cards" from patients you get little "golden paws" on your name tag. i have plenty of little cards but i refuse to turn them in because the badges with the paws has your whole name big in the middle and i just want my first name

NicuNsg · Oct 7, 2003

Info for anyone in FL (if not check to see if your state does this)!!

When you apply for licensure you use your mailing addy, which upon passing the exam, gets posted on the net. BUT, if you look at your license..they want your address of practice. You can either mail it or electronically correct the info on line, which does not show your home addy. The only addy that will show is your place of practice, but you must furnish the info. If you are a traveler...use a PO Box. Just alittle info, in case you didn't know.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Oct 7, 2003

Now that's strange because our facility REQUIRES a picture the MD and enforces it.

SueRN916 · Oct 7, 2003

Our facility requires first name, title and department. Our manager checked with the Texas Board of Nursing and they say this is all that is "required" and the last name is not necessary.

JerseyGirl · Oct 7, 2003

I work agency and we are required to wear a badge with our first and last name every place we go, and I've noticed that most of the places I've been to require first and last as well.

flashpoint · Oct 7, 2003

Our BON feels that patients have a right to know EXACTLY who is caring for them. I think that here, anyway, most people want to know just so they can go out for coffee and tell their friends whose daughter (son, girlfriend, etc) was caring for them. The BON also posts addreses, license numbers, etc on the internet. Feel free to check it out at http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/lis/lis.asp. LOL...type in a common name and see the results...scary what the good old people of Nebraska think, ain't it? :-)

allnurses Guide · Oct 7, 2003

In our ER, first name and title with picture on the front, full name and number on the back in small print.

It's not just ER & Pysch you have to worry about though. When I worked medsurg many years ago in Denver, a county prisoner kept asking me where I lived, etc. He got mad when I just smiled and gave vague answers, and said "I could find out if I wanted to!", at which point my badge with my full name went in my pocket, and I've never worn my last name since.

Would you believe in those days they just chained the prisoners to the bed and left them? I had to climb over the shackles while they sat in a chair to make the bed. :eek:

NurseSDP · Oct 7, 2003

On our badges here, we have our picture in the upper left hand corner, then our first name on the right hand side with our title beneath it. THe bottom of the badge has the name of the hospital. The only badges that stand out are those of staff who work on our locked L&D/mother-baby/peds unit (they have red badges while the rest of the hospital has white).

luv2nurseinER · Oct 17, 2003

I was stalked two years ago by a pt I treated in the ER that took a liking to me. I found out he was a known sexual predator. I wasn't hurt physically, but I will NEVER have my last name on my badge again. I would take being fired before I'd risk my life or that of my family. My agency let me put my first name and last initial on my badge. We have enough risk just working in the ER without having to worry about when we leave work.

gizzy76 · Oct 21, 2003

Any facility that I have worked in has only required my first name and title to be on my badge.

When I was in my nursing training, we had our first and last names on our school badge and they were in HUGE letters. When on our psych rotation we were allowed to cover up our last names after one of the students began getting phone calls at home from a patient from the floor. She was pretty scared!

In the ER I used to work in, they had the first name and title on the badge and your full name on the back of the badge for security reasons.

wayover20 · Oct 21, 2003

Up until a week ago, our badges had: picture and first name

Now its: picture and first name, with name in BIG black letters 3/4 by 1 inch big !! This hospital has started a ridged "customer satisfaction" policy, and "zero tolerance" for any employee that does not comply. Phone surveys are done by who knows who, and if an employees name comes up as someone who did not treat the patient/family as they felt they should be, that person is severly dealt with. We were recently ordered by our nurse manager that we are to "make rounds" in the ED waiting room and if anyone (pt or visitor) even so much as requests a blanket, we are to give it to them. We all blurted out "What!!!! We hardly have time/staff to tend to the patients IN the er, much less offer blanket/pillows/coffee to the waiting are folks!" She didn't like that reply.....of course she came out of nursing school, worked er for 2 months before applying and getting a management position. Has no idea what it's like actually working like the staff she "manages."