why do people wear their ID below the waist?

[urge]

Do they want others looking at their junk?

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[BobBarker]

Doesn't slap patient in the face while putting on ECG leads or get in way when placing epidural catheter.

 

[urge]

Can't they put it higher on their shirt? It's actually more widespread than anesthesia personnel.

 

[anes]

Can't they put it higher on their shirt? It's actually more widespread than anesthesia personnel.

I used to do it at the waist. I don't like how it pulls my shirt down when u clip it on. I use a lanyard now.

 

[Gimlet]

I converted from being a waist-wearer in residency to chest-level now that I am an attending because I want my patients to be able to see my name when I am talking to them now.

I wore it on my waist during residency because I had an attending that would get on my case about my badge hanging in the patient's face while leaning over putting on monitors. Of course, there was another attending who would get upset if you weren't wearing it at chest height when you worked with her. Good lord I don't miss having to deal with that residency BS anymore.

 

[dhb]

I don't wear ID, i have my card in my pocket

 

[anes]

I don't wear ID, i have my card in my pocket

I tried doing that, along with wearing street clothes. Needless to say, the police were involved. I also had no privileges at this hospital. Nor had I started medical school. Weird.

 

[RedAnesthesia]

I like it because it's out of my way and doesn't flop in patients face. Additionally, it is easy to grab to key in OR areas.

 

[Infexious]

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[partydoc]

I wear a lanyard, tuck it in my pocket when in the OR, no flopping around.

 

[twoliter]

I wear a lanyard, tuck it in my pocket when in the OR, no flopping around.

This

 

[Ezekiel2517]

I've heard of ID's causing corneal abrasions during DL

 

[Ronin2258]

I wear my ID badge on the pocket clip that I attached to my outside pocket. He keeps it from flinging around like a lanyard, and it's in plain sight. It stays tight to my chest and out of the way for DLs and epidurals.

When I was a resident, I had so many ID badges from all the hospitals I rotated through that I would put them all on the same clip and tuck to the other badges into my pocket and leave the pertinent badge out for everyone to see. That also kept the badges from flopping into the field.

 

[BuzzPhreed]

Lanyards bother my neck after a few hours. Even the lightest of them. It's a pants clip for me. I never slap a patient in the face with my ID.

 

[Random Anesthesiologist]

I have a lanyard. I like it but it's annoying sometimes when I forget to tuck it in. I wish it came with a magnet I could attach through my scrub top, almost like a tie clip.

 

[GA8314]

Doesn't slap patient in the face while putting on ECG leads or get in way when placing epidural catheter.

This is my exact reason.

 

[GA8314]

I converted from being a waist-wearer in residency to chest-level now that I am an attending because I want my patients to be able to see my name when I am talking to them now.

I wore it on my waist during residency because I had an attending that would get on my case about my badge hanging in the patient's face while leaning over putting on monitors. Of course, there was another attending who would get upset if you weren't wearing it at chest height when you worked with her. Good lord I don't miss having to deal with that residency BS anymore.

Yeah, you and me both...

 

[Oggg]

Pretty sure jcaho wants your id at chest level. That's why I wear it on my waist 😛

 

[Ipassgas]

I have a couple of ID badges. Somewhere.

The people in the OR know me. The cafeteria ladies know me (I don't know how, nor do I care). The administrators who want to know me, do. My patients meet me and I give them a card.

I don't want anyone else to know who I am. It's hard to complain about the anonymous white dude wearing scrubs.

 

[scudrunner]

Wear it on your scrub collar so it rests on your upper chest, in front of a shoulder- you will not scratch any eyeballs like you would if it's hanging on your pocket, it doesn't pull your shirt down, and people don't have to look at your junk to learn your name.

 

[seinfeld]

Lanyards are outlawed in my hospital as an infectious risk and too many people dragging it into wounds and touching patient without it being cleaned.

As with scudrunner i wear it (clip it) up on my shoulder.