Is your Hospital requiring a copy of your diploma or transcripts?

[floridaboundrn]

So my hospital is telling me that CMS is now requiring all licensed RNs in the ICU to have a copy of their diploma or transcripts on file in HR proving they graduated from nursing school.

If you have a license, doesn't the state issuing the license do a background check and make sure the requirements (graduation) are met prior to issuing a license?!

If CMS is nationwide, then we should all have to do this correct?

Is everyone diggin their diploma out to copy when they have been licensed for 20 years?

Thanks!!

[Racer15, BSN, RN]

If you are in charge of collecting samples/ordering "complex" lab tests, you have to provide a copy of your highest level diploma.

[Overland1, RN]

But... how do you get a license without having graduated from nursing school?

If a license requires that you have graduated from an accredited college, then why isn't proof of licensure acceptable to CMS?

Because that makes sense, and CMS has nothing to do with making sense.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

But... how do you get a license without having graduated from nursing school?

If a license requires that you have graduated from an accredited college, then why isn't proof of licensure acceptable to CMS?

*** I got an LVN license wihout ever having gone to nursing school.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

Because that makes sense, and CMS has nothing to do with making sense.

What is CMS?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

The governmentak entity that controls reimbursement.

What is CMS?

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

Wow, this is a surprising new rule. I haven't heard from my hospital yet regarding my transcripts. I perform iStat BMPs and troponins and I draw labs off of peripheral and central lines all the time.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

What is CMS?

Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

So I guess the grocery store should start asking for an official copy of your birth certificate when you buy a bottle of wine because the drivers license may not be genuine.

Why not? If it weeds out 1 underage drinker out of 1 million it will be worth it right?

Well that's a little melodramatic don't you think? Considering the fact that there are multiple degree paths to becoming an RN (including non-accredited programs), I don't think it's unreasonable for an employer to want to verify and keep on file which path you took. We're educated professionals, so why can't we present our educational credentials?

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Your employer has every right to request proof and/or verify your credentials.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

Your employer has every right to request proof and/or verify your credentials.

I was only annoyed that they decided to verify my credentials AFTER I had been working there for years. Especially since they have proof that I'm actually IN grad school on file. But that wasn't enough to satisfy that I had a college degree. I get annoyed when there's a lack of logic in the requirements from my employer.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Silly when filling out apps that they ask what university/degree/gpa, then also want to know what high school you went to and if you graduated.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

I was only annoyed that they decided to verify my credentials AFTER I had been working there for years. Especially since they have proof that I'm actually IN grad school on file. But that wasn't enough to satisfy that I had a college degree. I get annoyed when there's a lack of logic in the requirements from my employer.

Did you read that article a PP posted? A woman was practicing as a nurse for 20+ years as a nurse until they caught her.

I'm standing behind the CMS on this one...frauds can create waste...I have seen posters on AN rail against waste and all the other things economically related that get their blood going. This one's for those posters...

The credentialing is for this CMS requirement, regarding a proper allocation for hospital funds towards nursing care; this where the future "outcome model" is addressing as well, I believe, but that is separate discussion on another post.

I never heard of "lab" requirements...I was told it was validation of credentials for completion of nursing courses. I'm thinking that is what the "lab requirement" means as well too, but that's my opinion.