Is this improper during application process?

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Hmmmm. Thought that this was not cool.

Anybody notice when applying for a nursing job at some hospital systems online, they ask you how you heard of them.?

Sometimes, I've noticed you are required to click: patient, visitor, clinical student. Geeeez, I was a patient at one hospital, and if I had said "patient" well then I would have given them info that they really aren't supposed to ask me during the interview process, right? Of course I didn't click "patient". Sure you could say (if you were even asked in at all) that you loved that hospital, etc. But if you were someone who did anything other than have a baby, or say something that would be a one time occurrence ...I would not recommend it! Thank God they can look me up all they want. But, this is not a good thing IMHO.

What do you guys see?

[oramar]

I think that you got a point. Asking if you were a patient is a very general thing but I would not do it if it were up to me.

[ItsTheDude]

ha, they're not asking if YOU were a patient specifically, a patient can be ANYONE that was a patient there. anyways, it's just an INTERNAL hr things used to figure out how people find out about jobs there.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Well, I did notice that the prefix was...

How did you learn about us? So if you clicked on "clinical student" it would then ask when, what school etc. So, the safe route if not a "clinical student" would be to click "visitor" as you must click something. Pretty much they are referring to your personal contact with the hospital as you are applying for a job there. You would think they might also give the option of "marketing/advertising" or "other" or "employee referral".

[LikeSweetSoulMusic]

I read it as "from a patient."

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

That's what I read too: "from a pt." Nope, would never admit I was a pt either.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

So some of you are saying that it means this kind of scenario:

My neighbor (patient) says to me that I should apply for a job as a nurse at hospital X, since he likes hospital X. I go to apply and answer the question (as a professional, mind you) that basically I decided to apply for a job at hospital X because my neighbor (patient) told me to get a job there...?

Would be kinda dorky of me...

[caliotter3]

As far as they are concerned, I usually always put my source as the internet or walk-in or something else that is generic. I would never say that I was a patient. I don't equate that information with wanting a job.