POLLS - and hospitals... Our hospital is currently having us polled

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by a major nationwide polling service. We call a 800 # and they ask us questions about management , the quality of care, whether we have adquate supplies, would we refer a family member to the hospital? , will we still be there a year from now?? etc., etc., It's an annual thing ...

Have you all done them??

Are they REALLY confidential???

They ask your social and birthdate.

I told it like it truly is about my hospital, and I swear, I'm not phobic, but I could swear management is looking at me a little closer...............

What do you say??

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Hmmmmm welp, with a social sec number required to be given, well UMMM no that is NOT confidential. And I would not participate.

We do Gallup Polls where I work. NONE of them ever required identifying information.And they could be done online at work or anyplace you have internet access. That is more like it, if you ask me.

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First I'd be weary about giving anyone my SS # over the phone.Just by having that # they know who you are,where you live,how much money you make, etc....We take a poll at the hospital I 'm at but there is nothing personally identifying us. :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

There's nothing confidential about THAT poll! :nono:

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Wound Care.

Nope, wouldn't participate in anything that requires my social security number.

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Asking for social security number & birthdate would make me immediately clam up. I think a fast one may have been pulled on you Passing thru.

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And, all of my co-workers also said they were asked for their ss #.

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I would agree with the others. This is not confidential.

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Agree with other posters, this poll is not confidential. Management is using info to sweep out the complainers. Confidential has no identifible numbers. :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Every three years our health system conducts polls via paper or computer interface. NO SS OR DOB EVER USED! :angryfire

They use code assigned to department they work in, but we have no idea who person is.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

even those surveys with a code--they can figure out who gave unfavorable comments. The code determines your unit, and identifying details such as years as a nurse, education level , and years at that hospital are asked. Plus I find that they always find that a majority of nurses are happy when you know that is not the case.

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