NursingLink

It seems like a good idea, but how can we be sure our info wont be accidently given out, or recieved as a result of solfware glich or hackers.  Also, I would hope it wouldn't keep students off the site.  Now I have seen people on here who fish for medical care, also we had a jerk being a jerk...............they called him/her a troll because he/she said inappropriate stuff on threads to include racial slurs.  Id like to see the jerks off.  Sounds ok, but I'm cautious.

I tired to edit my personal info but couldn't do it.  Some stuff you can change, but I couldn't get my last name or city off.  I sent a message to "Editor"  to ask how, and never heard back.  Does any one know how to edit that info? 

I would like to see some VERIFICATION done on this site to prove that you are a nurse or nursing student. 

 I think it is a good idea, one of the medical sites I also belong to is owned and run by doctors, in order to be accepted you must be an RN or higher than that in Medicine, you first give your lic number and they verify it and then you are accepted.  This would prevent stalkers or the few weirdos we have had here show up and end the solicitors that have tried to get in, although we nipped them in the bud, but it would work, not sure if this site is set up to do that though. I am just not sure with the students it would work out because who is to say the paper proof is real? And who on NL wants to be in charge of trying to verify if a document was real or fake?  It can be created as we have all seen on the net, anything can be photo shopped and the schools are NOT allowed to give out or verify admission to school, so I think this would be a problem for THAT reason, we do not want to limit our nursing student s from participating in this site. It would be nice if the profile was more accurate when you set up your account, people putting in they are RN with BSN then they are still students, who is to say they would ever finish school, it is just confusing. Your service should be student, then you could put what you are in school for: RN, LVN, CNA etc. that would be my input for whatever it is worth.

Will someone please message me and tell me how to get the city off completely? I tried changing the area code but the city never changed. I took off everything else.

 of course you are a part of the medical community

Go to "MY Profile" Then Click "Edit" Type in the new zip code. Do not forget to go to the bottom of the page and click "Submit" I bet that is the step you are missing.

Just make up an initial for your last name.

The question that keeps nagging at me when I see this topic is who will protect us from ourselves?
If you read some of the fights among members as the last elections approached, you know we can be a hostile and petty group.

Something else bothers me about submitting personal information to the site. There's a saying that's been circulating among web sponsors--"if you haven't been hacked yet, you haven't been on very long." You'll still find hackers whose purpose is to disrupt or vandalize a sight, but for years, the trend among hackers has been to violate a site for financial gain.

Several responsible parties have already warned me to be very careful about handing out my license number to others, and also how to go about it. If I recall, my state board of nursing's web site displays a similar warning.

Also, it's long been incredibly easy to gain access to a web site's files--without having to hack them. An expert on the matter told our computer networking class that about all that an intruder needs to gain full access to a network is to attach a item he can buy for about ten dollars at Radio Shack onto a network cable.
Whoa la--the intruder is in.
There's yet another common way for intruders to gain access to a network. Keepers of the site may occasionally use cell phones to gain access to their site for various reasons, including convenience. And once someone opens a channel using a cell phone, practically anyone with some specialized electronics can intercept the transmission.
Whoa la--they're in. About 4 years ago, a Cleveland State University professor drove around Cleveland monitoring those signals and found the practice so common, they practically constituted noise on his electronics. Evidently, many keepers of networks in Cleveland didn't realize they were exposing their sites to intruders, or they didn't believe their self-indulgence would cause any harm.