Should nurses be forced to wear tracking device at work?

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One more piece of equipment that I need to hold onto, that can potentially transmit pathogens..... No thanks. They want to know where I am, any admin is very welcome to follow me throughout the shift, but they will need to keep up. 

Specializes in Primary Care, Military.
10 hours ago, HiddenAngels said:

I am dyyyiiiiinnnnnnnnggggg! Hilarious 

(story to tell )- BIG

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you’re not alone I can’t poop out, I wish I could but I can’t…

Right? Already self-conscious about the situation, which is just made so much worse. ? Some people play a game or two of uno on their phone to pass the time while doing their thing.

 I imagine having a tracker on while trying to handle this situation would've made the anxiety so much worse. Vocera alone when I worked in the ER made going to the bathroom an adventure. It never failed. You'd sit down to pee and it was like an alarm went off somewhere that someone just had to call you. I swear the whole hallway could hear that thing go off, alerting everyone to just where you were. "Can you take this call?" MIGHT AS WELL. ?‍♀️

Specializes in Pediatrics.

I think I would object more to the cell phone you have to carry after hours. It would go into my glove box and I would NEVER answer it. My time is MY time! I would choose whether to answer my regular phone or not!

16 hours ago, feelix said:

Maybe your doctor uses a webcam.

LOLOL! That’s actually not funny 

Specializes in Dialysis.
BluesNJax said:

I think I would object more to the cell phone you have to carry after hours. It would go into my glove box and I would NEVER answer it. My time is MY time! I would choose whether to answer my regular phone or not!

It depends. If you're carrying that phone, that usually means that you're on call, meaning that the company owns some of that time

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

Absolutely no. 

I wear a garmin watch which records my steps, the only one who has access to that info.

I can kinda almost see the reasoning behind wearing one at work, but the whole “don’t forget to take it home” thing is concerning. Are they tracking you at home too?  If they call you to cover on your day off and you say no because you’re out of town, could they look and say “no, you’re at home, you can come in”?  

gere7404 said:

We have a tracking device that has a button we're supposed to press if we're under duress 

9/10 it goes off when someone leans over something and it gets pressed accidentally 

I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble because they were caught not rounding or being somewhere they weren't supposed to be because of it

Same.  But we haven't really had an incident that was questionable either, where they needed to prove where someone was, so this could still be the intent behind the use, we'll see.

T-Bird78 said:

I can kinda almost see the reasoning behind wearing one at work, but the whole "don't forget to take it home" thing is concerning. Are they tracking you at home too?  If they call you to cover on your day off and you say no because you're out of town, could they look and say "no, you're at home, you can come in"?  

I didn't know they wanted some places to take them home.  We are told to leave them in lockers before we leave for the day or they won't work once you've been outside.

Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
On 8/9/2022 at 4:30 AM, T-Bird78 said:

If they call you to cover on your day off and you say no because you’re out of town, could they look and say “no, you’re at home, you can come in”?  

Unless you are designated on call you don’t have to give a reason why you can’t come in. “No I can’t is sufficient.” Even if you are at home, so what, your time off is your time not theirs. I don’t answer any calls from work on my day off unless I want the money that is!

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On 8/16/2022 at 7:26 AM, T-Bird78 said:

I worked for a medium-sized practice, 19 locations and 200+ employees. I called out sick and the clinical director called me back to ask why and if I could still make it in or not. I was literally on my way to the ER (hyperemesis gravidarum, and that ER visit turned into a 4-day hospital stay).  Another time I called out because my son was sick, and a coworker called out because she’d been at the ER with her fiancé all night. Same clinical director called both of us, then made that coworker come in because my child being sick trumped her fiancé being sick (he’d gone into a-fib and had to be cardioverted!). 

This one is just sad.  The clinical director should have just covered, my God. 

On 8/18/2022 at 9:48 AM, HiddenAngels said:

This one is just sad.  The clinical director should have just covered, my God. 

Agreed. Sad thing is the clinical director had been a nurse in a past life but was strictly an administrator with no training on our processes so she coudln’t work it. 

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