When I started working in my current position we were given the option of how we wanted our name/title to come out in the EMR, business cards, lab coats, etc...
I went simple with First name last name and NP. I really did not give it much thought..
I have seen all sorts of different and pretentious combinations over the past few months.
actually it was not her exact cluster, but I cannot help but chuckle overtime i see one of her notes. Seriously! I am actually dying to ask her what gives!
Last week i saw a form she signed and she actually wrote out the whole alphabet soup by hand!! I work with a few other NP/PA and they just pretty much roll their eyes, but it made me wonder if anyone else out there feels compelled to list every designation they have ever earned.....and why?
Given that my pen signature is pretty illegible (if I try, i can make it readable) I put catsmeow RN. My formal typed ala business card is RN BSN CNOR. I have an ASN and an AA but it's supposed to be your highest and relevant degree, I believe. i also have a CPC-A but unless i am doing something related to coding, I don't put it in there.
In Texas you need to sign First name Last name with RN (or whatever kind nurse you are) and it needs to be legible. During chart or state audits it's extremely important.
ANCC says that you use whatever your state dictates for legal documents such as prescriptions and chart notes. For professional endeavors such as speaking engagements, use all your relevant credentials--which should be in the following order: Highest degree earned (so no point in "BSN, MSN, DNP", etc), licensure, state designations or requirements, national certifications, awards and honors, other recognitions. So for legal documents, I am Name, APRN. But for professional I would be Name, MS, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C.
ANCC says that you use whatever your state dictates for legal documents such as prescriptions and chart notes. For professional endeavors such as speaking engagements, use all your relevant credentials--which should be in the following order: Highest degree earned (so no point in "BSN, MSN, DNP", etc), licensure, state designations or requirements, national certifications, awards and honors, other recognitions. So for legal documents, I am Name, APRN. But for professional I would be Name, MS, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C.
It seems redundant to put APRN followed by two different APRN credentials? Can't one come to the conclusion that you are an APRN based on the two credentials?
It seems redundant to put APRN followed by two different APRN credentials? Can't one come to the conclusion that you are an APRN based on the two credentials?
In my opinion, yes! But I didn't make the rules! And let's face it--I don't know a single lay person that knows what "APRN" even means.
Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.
It's time to change the rules...why have different state designations? can't we all just use NP across the board? Of all providers, we are the only ones with various acronyms that defies logic. The public knows what the letters MD mean and PA-C is used everywhere in the US, meanwhile, we NP's have been flipping around various national and state designations through the years and it's still changing (case in point: the ridiculously long AGACNP-BC!). When physicians get board certified do they add MD, IM-BC or MD, FP-BC? No because it's absurd.
It's time to change the rules...why have different state designations? can't we all just use NP across the board? Of all providers, we are the only ones with various acronyms that defies logic. The public knows what the letters MD mean and PA-C is used everywhere in the US, meanwhile, we NP's have been flipping around various national and state designations through the years and it's still changing (case in point: the ridiculously long AGACNP-BC!). When physicians get board certified do they add MD, IM-BC or MD, FP-BC? No because it's absurd.
I sign NP and my electronic signature is NP, but my lab coat and business cards have the full alphabet soup.....I never wear a lab coat, they still are in the plastic on their original hangers.
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if people are signing a 5 line long signature they arent seeing enough patients or spending time with them.