crn11

Thank you all for the advice! I have typed my letter and I am asking one of my nurse mentors to look it over. Please pray for me!

I am working in home health care, doing QA in the office as well as visiting patients in the home. I notice that ancillary staff sign my name as the receiving nurse for patients who aren't even my patients. I have talked to my boss as well as the office staff to not sign my name, and they still continue to do it when I am not in the office. And when I am in the office, they ask me to sign as the receiving nurse for orders for discharge or recertification (for example) for patients who are not under my supervision/care. My issue is that my signature is being used and forged. Can I lose my license for having my name signed with these doctors orders? Does my name/signature being used as the receiving nurse make me liable for these patients? I have no problem with keeping up with my own cases, communicating with doctors regarding the patients I am working with, but does it make me a bad nurse to be saying "that's not my patient" as my argument to not sign these documents? What can I do further if I have noted the issue of forging my signature verbally and nothing has been done to stop it? PLEASE HELP!