At my job, and with most nursing jobs I guess, I sign my name and title A LOT. SO much that I sometimes catch myself almost signing my title in normal every day signatures. Like signing a check, I almost always want to add RN after my signature. I have been able to catch myself because I feel it would be pretty corny to do that.
Why I'm asking this is because I was just reading an obit for a former patient's husband and there was a note of condolence from someone we'll call Susie Baker, RN. She was not this patient's nurse as far as I could tell because in the note she recalled sitting around drinking wine with him and being his friend. I just thought it was strange that in that setting she would use her title. I know if I wrote a letter of condolence in the obituary section of the paper for one of my patients and I did not mention that I was their nurse I would think it a bit tacky to sign my title after my name.
What say you. DO you sign your title after your name in non work situations?
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Every once in a while. Mostly when I've just gotten off work. Like a previous poster said, I usually catch myself somewhere in the R, and then there's this random extra letter after my signature. Lol.
Yes we have paper charting at my work but I don't do much charting and at my old job we did electronic charting and I still signed my name and title an obscene amount of time every day. At my current position that's pretty much what I do all day is sign paperwork as an RN signature is required and my office mates are LPNs.
only write RN for work paperwork, and would find it corny to do otherwise. I have had a few accidents (initials instead of signature etc), but yeah, seems a bit weird.
Yep, I catch myself signing RN after my name frequently. Just force of habit signing it that way. I also have been guilty of writing a note to my kid's teacher full of the acronyms and symbols I use at work. I didn't even realize I had done it, and believe me I felt like a fool when the teacher had to call me to translate.
I sign my name with all of my initials following in the professional setting because I worked hard with sweat and tears to earn everyone of those initials. I try not to sign like that in personal settings but unfortunately I've been known to sign that way on my daughters school papers a time or two.
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Horseshoe, BSN, RN
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We have computer charting AND lots of paperwork that still has to be done and signed.