If using the first name and and last initial  protects the privacy of nurses, it also prevents patients from completely knowing  who is caring for them. What are the legal implications for this? How are other caregiving professions handling this? If I were a patient, I would not like having to wonder who my caregivers are. Practicing a profession is a public behavior and there should be no secrecy involved. Given that the nursing profession has been identified as the most trusted profession, that designation could quickly disappear if nurses decline to be identified by full name. Without knowlege of the range of positive factors that would favor the proposed legislation, I can only state that it may do more harm than good to appear duplicitous in the eyes in the public. Thank you.