I encourage your support of this amendment. Several years ago, I received harassing phone calls from a patient that I had cared for in ethe hospital. Having access to my full name, made it easy for him to locate my phone number. I shared this event with a co-worker and a physician overheard my story. He shared that a nurse in his office also recived inappropriate calls. While I could not be sure it was the same person, it seemed suspicious.

In the past year, I am aware of fellow nurses being contacted via facebook by patients they have cared for. These contacts have been sexually inappropriate and were unnerving to these nurses. Social media and technology make it easy for patients to find nurses. As a nurse, I believe this is a breech in privacy and could certainly result in compromising safety. By not including our full last name on ID badges, our privacy and personal safety would be better protected.