Is Anonymity Important to You?

[allnurses]

Is your anonymity on allnurses important?  Please respond in the poll and then post here why your anonymity on allnurses is important.  Also, feel free to post what else that allnurses offers is important. 

Thank you.  We appreciate your participation and your input is important.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

Yes. I can go on FB and post if I want anyone to know who I am. Here, I can be open with my ideas

I had a coworker approached recently and ask me if I was on here. But she thought I was another poster. I just laughed

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

As others have stated, the anonymity allowed me to vent about my er. Although I never had to vent about my manager. She was great, the issues I had with management were higher up the food chain.

I do belong to a couple of other forums that are members only, post under your real name. They are much more staid & quite a bit less funny. 

[LauraF, RN, ASN, CNA, LPN, RN]

I voted no.  I really don't care what people think.  I'm too old for that kind of drama.  They know I have a bad attitude.  I have had many jobs.  If I say something towards an old employer, what are they going to do?  I don't think the current employer cares.  As far as any personal posts, I am pretty much an open book.  Want to know something about me?  Ask me.  I'm proud of all my scars.  It is what I did to get where I am.

[FlameHeart, CNA]

I'm the minority, but I despise Anonymity, it's secret and deceitful.

While we all have secrets and we must keep most identifiable details about our patients hidden to protect their information according to HIPAA, I see no reason to keep our identities secret.

I'm not afraid to voice my opinions and report people at work or anywhere else.

Honest, loyal, and consistent are my virtues.

Let them do to me according to what I deserve fairly and legally.

That's my motto.

[LibraNurse27, BSN, RN]

14 hours ago, FlameHeart said:

Let them do to me according to what I deserve fairly and legally

That's how I feel too! If I make a mistake I deserve to be held accountable just like anyone else. I once made a (minor) mistake that didn't harm a patient and I didn't report it, and the guilt drove me crazy. I know medical mistakes are vastly under reported, especially those that causes no harm to a patient, and I've had coworkers make similar mistakes and not report, and seemed not to bother them.

I value honesty and integrity, and any time I do something that goes against those values I go crazy and feel like I should be in jail. I've reported all other mistakes I've made and done incident reports. People tell me I'm over the top and will get myself in trouble if I report any little thing I ever do wrong, but I've learned my conscience is more important. People of certain demographics are punished at much lower rates than others. Maybe it is a warped sense of thinking and I am overly critical of myself, but I honestly feel I'm never held accountable for my mistakes, in nursing or life in general, and I really think it's because of how I look. So if people on this forum or anywhere else want to know who I am or give me constructive criticism, I am more than open to it. 

[Snatchedwig, BSN, CNA, LPN, RN]

Super important to me. If I want to vent I can come on here without feeling nervous.

[FlameHeart, CNA]

3 hours ago, LibraNurse27 said:

That's how I feel too! If I make a mistake I deserve to be held accountable just like anyone else. I once made a (minor) mistake that didn't harm a patient and I didn't report it, and the guilt drove me crazy. I know medical mistakes are vastly under reported, especially those that causes no harm to a patient, and I've had coworkers make similar mistakes and not report, and seemed not to bother them.

I value honesty and integrity, and any time I do something that goes against those values I go crazy and feel like I should be in jail. I've reported all other mistakes I've made and done incident reports. People tell me I'm over the top and will get myself in trouble if I report any little thing I ever do wrong, but I've learned my conscience is more important. People of certain demographics are punished at much lower rates than others. Maybe it is a warped sense of thinking and I am overly critical of myself, but I honestly feel I'm never held accountable for my mistakes, in nursing or life in general, and I really think it's because of how I look. So if people on this forum or anywhere else want to know who I am or give me constructive criticism, I am more than open to it. 

You have a good heart, that's why you feel like that.

In Medicine there are no "harmless" or "pointless" mistakes, it all matters because every patient is a person and everything from if someone acknowledged their existence and talked to them even if they can't talk back they probably often can hear you even in a coma to keeping their BP low to making sure they have enough oxygen.

 

It ALL matters and this is why care outside the ICU goes downhill, because the management think that just because a patient is more physically stable that they deserve less attention and resources and staff, WRONG!

 

People are nothing but a means to gain money for profit to Modern Medical Administration, it's like a bunch of people who had no understanding of Medicine and no compassion whatsoever for people got together and decided to get into managing Healthcare in the last 80 years and said, "Let's make some money, always put people last! They don't matter for the most part, we only need to keep them barely alive to make money! Hahaha!"

 

I've also been told I could get myself fired for some of the things I am honest about.

 

One time I was working at at an American Italian Restaurant as a dishwasher and I get 1 free employee meal and the owner of the ice cream shop above my restaurant tried to get me to sell him my meal from the restaurant at a discounted price. I wasn't sure if that was OK or not, so I told my Manager and he said that was unethical and I could fired for that. I already thought this would be the case, but I told my manager anyways because that's the kind of honest person I am.

 

He said I could give the ice cream shop owner my meal as a gift, but I can't make a profit selling the restaurant's meals at a discounted price under the table so to speak. So that's exactly what I did and I kept my job for 1 year until the restaurant closed down.

 

The day I quit my Nursing Home job, I reported everything I did and even the fact another CNA abandoned her patient because she said he was yelling at her and being mean when he was in pain having a difficult BM in his diaper on the bed and he couldn't stand up and use the toilet on his own.

 

Management had me strike that from the record as they called it a "walk away policy" and said he could get up and use the toilet himself.

 

I'm still in disbelief over that, but I'm glad I was able to help him one last time even though I failed to care for 3 of my other patients without help.

 

I honestly think some women just don't know how to talk to or understand some old men, that man was the second man I've been told was a yeller and mean. The first 1 I took care of in Home Health Care.

 

Either some women are too sensitive or they are just lazy or manipulative liars or thieves especially in Home Health Care.

 

Thank God most are not like that.

 

You talk about your ethnicity, if you don't mind me asking you what is your ethnicity and what do you look like in words?

 

I myself am exactly like my picture: brown, short black hair, brown eyes, glasses, hairy short skinny American Mexican man im 30's. Ironically I don't speak alot of Spanish, but I'm learning.

 

I do think I get along better with most people as a brown American  Mexican because there is so much hatred between black and white people while the rest of us ethic groups just move on with our lives and don't dwell in hatred like alot of the black and white people do.

 

I'm an honest person because I am a son of God through Jesus so I represent him on earth and I am accountable to God who sees everything all the time. And I am not afraid to get fired or even killed, because I trust in God to protect me and if he doesn't then he's got better plans for me anyways and I know he will always provide me with what I need. Without him so many doors of opportunity would be closed to me and I would never even heard of some of them. No chances, no luck, no coincidence, only the hand of God at work!

[LibraNurse27, BSN, RN]

2 hours ago, FlameHeart said:

You talk about your ethnicity, if you don't mind me asking you what is your ethnicity and what do you look like in words

skinny white girl ??

And in my experience the world has been very forgiving to me because of it. I've had manic episodes due to bipolar disorder, resulting in erratic behavior, but I am never seen as a threat, more as a victim that needs help. Meanwhile, black men exhibiting the same symptoms get shot by the police because they are seen as dangerous. I am grateful for my privilege, but it really bothers me that the world has different standards for people based on how they look. Thank you for sharing your experience, and I can tell you really don't care about anonymity based on your profile picture! LOL 

 

[FlameHeart, CNA]

2 hours ago, LibraNurse27 said:

skinny white girl ??

And in my experience the world has been very forgiving to me because of it. I've had manic episodes due to bipolar disorder, resulting in erratic behavior, but I am never seen as a threat, more as a victim that needs help. Meanwhile, black men exhibiting the same symptoms get shot by the police because they are seen as dangerous. I am grateful for my privilege, but it really bothers me that the world has different standards for people based on how they look. Thank you for sharing your experience, and I can tell you really don't care about anonymity based on your profile picture! LOL 

 

The world is getting crazier and more hateful.

I disagree with the mentality being pushed on the public to get rid of all Police and let chaos and gangs rule as well as the idea that all Police and all White people are hateful oppressors of black people.

Dismantling the government and police and erasing history will only turn us into another Mexico and I don't want to live there.

Yes the Law must be kept and those who enforce it are not above the Law but should be held to even higher standards as the example.

The media are sharks who smell the blood of scandal and go into feeding frenzies.

The evidence of our society having more good Cops than bad Cops and more good government than bad government and increasingly better racial relationships is the fact that crime isn't near as bad as other countries and I don't have to carry a gun everywhere I go and I get free food and medical coverage from my government if I am under the poverty line and I have almost never been discriminated against as a brown person.

Don't believe everything you hear on the news and from extreme terrorist groups that start riots of destruction and violence.

Martin Luther King Jr. would be ashamed of his people if he was alive today, not just black people but all people in this country for we are one nation under God and one people and we need to start acting like it.

"Hate can never defeat hate. It's a neverending cycle.

Only love can defeat hate.

Judge by character and not skin color." is the message he preached and the message the world needs today.

You're not the only privileged one, we all as US Americans are, and most are so ignorant to severe oppression and slavery and starvation and illness and hardships they reject the very institutions and people who work in them everyday such as Police Stations and Hospitals that work hard to maintain their protective from many evils delusional bubble of blissful ignorance and entitlement and arrogance.

Seriously, US Americans needs to wake up and go look what is happening in other countries for hundreds of years and go live there for awhile and then they might realize just how much they have to be grateful for the people who came to this land and worked to make it what is today and grateful for wgat they have in today's age of this country.

And instead of obsessing every day over the bad and trying to tear it down, work hard to make it better through love and free choice not forced education of hatred and disarming our protectors and ignoring our Healers.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

… but it shouldn’t be so hard to make off-line connections if we want to. I think the mods may be a little too tight on that, but I’d be willing to hear a better rationale.