Posting Licensed Number in social media

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I am just wandering does it posting your certificate or license with number visible to everyone will do harm to you?

Well, given the fact that it (license number) is a public data.

Whats your thoughts... thank you

Specializes in Critical Care.
I don't find it concerning. I find it stupid. And weird.

As opposed to everything else posted on facebook?

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
As opposed to everything else posted on facebook?

You're right. Much of what is posted on FaceBook is stupid and weird. I have a cousin that photographs every meal she eats and posts the pictures and the details on Facebook. My sister evidently uses FaceBook to enhance her professional status -- every time her hospital is in the news, she posts it on FaceBook. (Unless it's bad press -- that doesn't get posted.) Every detail of her new boyfriend has been posted and discussed and "liked" and whatnot, but the fact that her 20-year marriage ended (about the time as the new boyfriend showed up) was strangely NOT posted. I've stopped reading what the child posts because it usually upsets either me or her father. There was the one picture where she's wearing nothing but stilettos and a big, leopard print bow covering the important parts. There was the one where she's standing on her stepfather's car, wearing the stilettos and a bikini and holding a big poster kissing off her boyfriend . . . . She's 22. Theoretically an adult.

I found YouTube videos of Ellen DeGeneres calling out her audience members over some of the photos they've posted . . . hysterically funny! I can't imagine why some of those folks thought it was a good idea to post pictures of themselves drunk and passed out, barfing, dancing with someone else's partner, or the selfies taken down the shirt. Strangely, none of them seem embarrassed -- they just seem to be enjoying their moment on TV.

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You're right. Much of what is posted on FaceBook is stupid and weird. I have a cousin that photographs every meal she eats and posts the pictures and the details on Facebook. My sister evidently uses FaceBook to enhance her professional status -- every time her hospital is in the news, she posts it on FaceBook. (Unless it's bad press -- that doesn't get posted.) Every detail of her new boyfriend has been posted and discussed and "liked" and whatnot, but the fact that her 20-year marriage ended (about the time as the new boyfriend showed up) was strangely NOT posted. I've stopped reading what the child posts because it usually upsets either me or her father. There was the one picture where she's wearing nothing but stilettos and a big, leopard print bow covering the important parts. There was the one where she's standing on her stepfather's car, wearing the stilettos and a bikini and holding a big poster kissing off her boyfriend . . . . She's 22. Theoretically an adult.

I found YouTube videos of Ellen DeGeneres calling out her audience members over some of the photos they've posted . . . hysterically funny! I can't imagine why some of those folks thought it was a good idea to post pictures of themselves drunk and passed out, barfing, dancing with someone else's partner, or the selfies taken down the shirt. Strangely, none of them seem embarrassed -- they just seem to be enjoying their moment on TV.

I've seen that on Ellen too. Maybe my age is showing, but I'd be mortified at most of them. My Facebook posts are limited to cool scientific journal articles, silly videos of my kids, and quotes from Neil Degrasse Tyson. I can't take a selfie to save my life, nor can I do a duck face. That ship sailed long before social media became a thing. :)

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Nursing student here, about to graduate in December... This isn't about posting your license number on social media, but do you put it on your resume?

I've read conflicting things.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
Nursing student here, about to graduate in December... This isn't about posting your license number on social media, but do you put it on your resume?

I've read conflicting things.

I don't think it really matters either way, it's just as easy to verify your license with your license number as it is with your name, which I assume would be on your resume. Anyone who knows your name can get your license number easily online. In your state for instance: Arizona State Board of Nursing | Online Verification

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

I have. Makes it easier to look up in my state---I'm helpful like that =)

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I am wary of giving out personal information on a resume that may end up in the trash someday. They can verify it if that is what they need. They copy it upon hiring...but eventually it all ends in the trash to be stolen. I find that concerning.

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Thanks for the input!

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
As opposed to everything else posted on facebook?

No kidding. I have a FB account but am not joined at the hip with it at all...I'll check it or post something a couple times a month maybe. I don't have scads of Friends either--mostly my family and a handful of old friends that I don't live near anymore.

But it drives me batty when someone posts something like "I'm sitting in the drive-thru. Wow, this is a neat drive-thru!" and dozens of people like it... and then I post a video of my (very talented if I do say) son's piano recital performance, and seriously not a single person liked it. :madface:

Off-topic rant over.

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I would not. I try to keep information like that as private as I can. Sure it is easy to find, but I doubt most people in or out of healthcare know how easy it is to find. I don't post it on my resume either. If it asks for it on an application I give in and provide it, but even then I prefer not to.

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Confused as to what everyone thinks you can actually do with someone's license number....the amount of info I had to provide to my job, requirements etc such as SS#... I mean if they have all that info then I'm pretty much screwed from the start. Employers search more than just the number. You CANT just write down a license number and call yourself a nurse....you need more requirements then that....

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Specializes in MDS/ UR.

If you want to advertise your personal information, have at it.

I know most of it can be gained easy enough if someone really wanted to get it.

I am befuddled by people that would just share away with no regard. It is kind of like poking the sleeping bear, in my opinion.

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