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Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:55:00 -0000

So get a Brother P-touch label maker and customize your badge with the fake name of your choice...Top Secret or MYOB is usually good for a few laughs. Chiquita banana stickers from the cafeteria come in handy if you don't like your picture.

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Allen — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:57:00 -0000

I only half-jokingly advocate football-type jerseys, with names on them, color-coded by job title.

There's something wrong with the part of my brain that remembers names, so my deal with everyone at work is: I'll call you by your name if I can see your name badge (<40% anecdotally), otherwise I'll be pleasant but no name, or a guess that'll probably be wrong.

GruntDoc

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Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:56:00 -0000

At my hospital (NE of both of yours) all nurses are color coded in navy scrubs and must have an outer jacket and pants this color, aides are light blue, radiology and lab members also have their own color scheme as well.

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michele — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:12:00 -0000

Personally, I respond pretty well to "hey you" as even my kids use it on occasion. But it's nice of you to try. I worked with an oncologist for over ten years, both in the hospital and in his clinic, and he never learned my name. He just yelled out "hey you" but once he called me Jolene. Please. Do I look like a Jolene?

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Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:08:00 -0000

as a nurse i usually just stick my hand out say hi i'm kris and hopefully the handshake recepient will reciprocate with a name...those bad ges just flip to the backside no matter what you do...some evil hr plot i suppose

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DZA — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:10:00 -0000

otherwise i can relate to the backward badge problem. so when i interact with a BB i first stare at the otherwise useless space currently occupied by he BB. if that is not clue enough, i slowly and gradually reach for said BB and flip it over myself to read the name. then i address such person formally and apologize for the inconvenience and slight aggression, hoping to make my point and attempting to memorize yet another bit of data in a target rich environment. if security is an issue (dirty old man is not enough of an excuse for grown ups), then first names and last initial will do (think ED and inpt psych units)

/not disgruntled, but far from gruntled, hospitalist

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DZA — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:59:00 -0000

Really? No universal enterprise badges? Barbaric. Where on Earth does this still happen?

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Diana — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:49:00 -0000

I love his suggestion of having dual-sided name badges. I promise you, I have much better things to do with my time than to constantly turn my badge around, either facing outward to appease the admins or inward to avoid "dirty old men". Unfortunately, the backside of my name badge is filled with a "mission statement" (hahahahahaha), the numbers for fire, dr stat, code intubation, code pink, and security (only security has a different number, but they're all listed multiple times), and the "compliance hotline".