did any of you share your first job offer on Facebook?

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I'm a new grad who has just been offered an ICU position and I could not be more excited right now! I received my official offer paperwork today and I'd really like to share with my family and friends that after years of hard work, I've been offered my first nursing position in the specialty that I love.

Did any of you do this when you were offered your first position?

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

If they're your family and friends, couldn't you TALK to them, email them, text them or send them a snail mail?

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Facebook wasn't around when my I got my first licensed nursing job-although AN was!!!

On Facebook, I make a point not to list where I work currently-just that I am a Registered Nurse.

Saying you got a job offer from ---- would be fine but don't get too specific.

Specializes in nursing education.

As a few other posters have stated, social media didn't exist then, but I'm sure I would have shared. It only took me five long months to get an offer and I was beyond happy.

That said, I shared my new job that I just accepted, being careful to thank my old job for all that I've learned there. Also, I have learned that whenever I share anything work or school related, I have to remove comments from certain people that are negative in some way toward either of those institutions (those people have plenty of other venues for their opinions). Social media is the way we share our news these days and make connections. I deal with the negative aspects of it and use it for good.

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Is this position contingent on getting your license? If so, then definitely don't post anything. If you've already got your license and you are good to go, I don't really see much wrong with doing that but proceed with caution. You will probably see many memos, emails, lectures, etc. about the use of social media and the workplace and it just gets so confusing that you never know what you're doing is right or wrong. For example, I was very tempted to post a picture of myself with my new badge at work (you can't really see anything on the badge and it was more for being in front of something at the hospital that is unique to the hospital) and, I think that same day, we had a lecture on not posting anything with our badges associated whatsoever. We even had to take them off prior to taking our group Halloween costume photo (and this was through the hospital itself!). So, just don't do that. I see a lot of my classmates doing that and I think that was my inspiration for that (I was probably just going to share it on my class's Facebook page) but glad I didn't. Social media can mess a life up.

Facebook was not available then though I don't take work and professional related stuff to social media because it is unethical for privacy and confidentiality of nursing.

Specializes in geriatrics.

Same as others, I don't mention anything work related on facebook. It's not appropriate.

I don't have a FB, so no I didn't. I wouldn't post it on any social media if I was you. Once you are working for a few months maybe post it on LinkedIn, if you want to eventually leave the unit and move elsewhere. Otherwise I wouldn't.

Nearly everyone in my cohort posted what unit they were on and what hospital. I see no problem if you are showing your excitement and are positive about it. I would however make it private to your friends only.

I don't have a Facebook but even If I did I would not share it. I'm from this generation and don't see the need to share everything. If the job goes sour , are you going to share that as well? Be careful what you post, you don't know who watching your posts.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

A couple of years ago, an employee at Johns Hopkins was fired over a FaceBook post. She was at a professional ball game (I don't follow sports, so I don't remember which sport it was) and made a racist comment on FaceBook about one of the players. As I understand it, she did not have her employer listed in the "about me" section (or whatever it is called), but had mentioned her employer in previous posts. The racist post went viral. Johns Hopkins issued a statement saying that they did not want such racist views associated with them, and that the employee was terminated.

I remember this whole thing vividly because it was about the same time that an orientee of mine saw fit to blast the hospital, the staff, the patients and her preceptors on AN. I thought I had recognized her posts on AN, but when she left her AN account up on a computer in the nurse's station when she went off to do something, it left no doubt. I wasn't the only person who saw it, although I may have been the only person who wasn't talking about it. (Except to the orientee in question.).

Our nurse manager called a staff meeting and told us point blank that there were folks in IT whose job was to scour social media and the reset of the internet looking for posts by and about our employees. She brought out the hospital's social media policy and went over it and then she warned us that intemperate posts on social media, the comments sections on news outlets, etc. that reflected poorly on the hospital could result in termination.

If you list your employer on social media, you're taking a risk. If you then go on, months or years later, to post something that your employer deems to reflect negatively on them, you could lose your job. And because you signed the Social Media policy early in your employment, you are assumed to understand that possibility.

I'm not saying anyone here will make racist, sexist, xenophobic or misogynist posts -- those types of posts seem to be sanctioned by our President-Elect anyway. But it is wise not to take a chance that some post you make will be misunderstood and disapproved by your employer.

I called a few people. No social media when I accepted first rn job.

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