JCAHO & legible signatures w/ noting orders

One of the big topics of my unit's staff meeting the other day is that now JCAHO is requiring the nurse's signature to be legible. My hospital is suggesting that nurses get stamps made with their name and title to place next to their signature.

Anyone else doing something like this?
Our hospitalists have stamps they are supposed to use but we haven't been told about this.

I have always believed that everyone who signs a chart should have an assigned ID that needs to be totally legible. There should be no question as to who wrote what.

what happens when the stamp is lost?

they should do this with doctors as well.

Quote from mortewhat happens when the stamp is lost?

We were told our signature must be legible - printing it is ok if you can't write neatly. And it IS happening with our doctors, too!

Quote from Esme12get another one.....

Quote from Mike A. Fungin RNThat's not the point. Anyone could use it and it'd be like signing your name.

There are always meetings, always with demands, and always JCAHO. Over time you figure out how to deal with these things, with the least fuss. Me, I'll sign as always until I get busted (actually my sig used to be much clearer, then one day I moved on to more important things like patients), then I'll come up with a plan B - I've been hearing this legible sig thing for over 10 years now, its always the same urgency, the same paper-appearances-are-more-important-than-reality, and so it goes.....Despite all the nonsense, life goes on.

How bout if the docs write orders that are legible?

Quote from PopwhizbangzThere are always meetings, always with demands, and always JCAHO. Over time you figure out how to deal with these things, with the least fuss. Me, I'll sign as always until I get busted (actually my sig used to be much clearer, then one day I moved on to more important things like patients), then I'll come up with a plan B - I've been hearing this legible sig thing for over 10 years now, its always the same urgency, the same paper-appearances-are-more-important-than-reality, and so it goes.....Despite all the nonsense, life goes on.