State board of nursing lists nurse's adresses

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I recently took the NCLEX in Tennessee. In order to see if I passed, I have been checking the TN Dept of health web site. Anyone can put in anybody's name to see if the person has a valid license. Along with license info, the site also lists adresses. The hospital where I am employeed requires our full name to be on our ID badges( they say it is a Joint Comission requirement). While most pts aren't a concern, sooner or later, everyone encounters a pt that you would not want to be able to find your address. Am I being unreasonable, or would anyone else be concerned about your address being available to anyone who wanted to find it?:nono:

Specializes in Clinical Risk Management.

Perhaps the question is about the public's right to have information about their cargiver versus the cargiver's right to safety & privacy.

I don't think that we need to have home addresses listed on the web...requiring that I pay the post office for my privacy is akin to a ransom.. Other than having practice addresses like physicians, I don't know of a whole lot of solutions other than addressing it to our state boards of nursing.

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