Can leadership mandate that a service member download an app to their personal phone?

SPC (Join to see) is this app an emergency notification system like Everbridge? Or is it a health system related protected messaging system so you can talk patient care?

I had my entire installation register for Everbridge which we bought into with a mix of funds. It made announcing snow days and the like very easy and reliable. I could also locate users that registered if we had not found them in a few days (like in Hurricane Sandy). Out of 6000, I had 12 hold out that with aluminum foil hats on at a jaunty angle, were convinced this was an invasion of privacy. Funny, because I got those 12 protests, I knew only one of those persons. His complaint was about his information being sold (legit concern), which we were able to solve. For emergency management and safety reasons, I would not fight and die on this hill as SFC (Join to see) alludes.

Your going in position on the original post doesn't give me anything to digest. Obviously, if someone wanted me to download and install Pokémon Go as an extension of the PT program, I'd fight my way through that obstacle belt. If it is soldier safety, I would not.

An approach to this, is establishing ground rules as a command for this app. Perhaps an open door recommendation to the command or the proponent to this system. Learn to complain constructively.
- does the information required relate to patient safety? If yes, you'll get bothered. If not, it waits until tomorrow.
- does the information put people, equipment, or facilities at risk? If yes, prepare to be bothered.
- does it relate to something you were charged to do and it did not get done without proper relief from a superior? Prepare to get bothered at home. Does it impact another shift after you left and no one else knows? Prepare to get bothered at home.
- is it an unforeseen emergency? Life sucks, get a helmet because youlll get a call.
- was there a massive change after you departed for the day it impacts what you do first thing in the morning? Prepare to be bothered.
- does it relate to safety and safety precautions outside normal SOP (snow storm, hurricane, serial killer etc)? Prepare to be bothered at home.

What I think are unreasonable expectations:
- responding to routine requests for information
- responding to people wondering aloud about something outside of above.
- routine taskings outside the above items
- expectations that youll respond to every ping and ding of the phone within 30 seconds from dead sleep, showers, swimming pools, intimate moments etc. if it is that important, it needs to be prefaced with voice to voice communications. It Is OK to send email as a refining element once the communications has been initiated. Text is a gray area. I'm ok with getting a text if it stands on its own. If I didn't get a response fairly soon after, voice call...if it is an emergency.

What work are you concerned about following you home? It's you, your ball cap, and a phone at home. The only reason you'd get a call I say because they need what is in your head, they want you back in(which you are on 24 hour call anyway), or it is something first thing that changed. If they are calling at 2am to discuss SSD2 progress, then that is an issue.

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LTC Jason Mackay no sir it’s the Safe & Reliable Care LENS board. It is a staff communication tool to communicate things such as work orders, floor issues, equipment flow, etc. It’s primary function to the capacity that my floor plans on using it could equate it to a public forum board for staff purely used on the operations of the floor and to voice complaints. They are not putting patient info or anything like that due to HIPAA.

Say their is a work order and someone from leadership wants to “task” it to you all they have to do is hit two buttons and bam you are getting cellphone notifications about what ever the issue is no matter where you are or what your doing. My concern is at that point it is impossible to disconnect from work, short of turning your phone off. It is adding urgency and the expectation of immediate resolution to things unnecessarily. I’m not saying I won’t coming in for for a crisis or emergent needs, I am more than aware that I volunteered but is the tool worth bombarding your staff with notifications on things like broken sinks, or that we are short and had to borrow IV fluids from another floor.

It really is a hill I don’t want to die but as implementing it appears to be a work trap more than a emergency management tool.

SPC (Join to see) - on the flip side you can leverage this to describe how tasked you are....here it is black and white. You can leverage this for task continuity, i.e. You never gave me that task or you gave that to be 30 minutes ago and I'm working on it. It allows you to be somewhere else and still be connected, so if you needed a quick run to the Ed Center, you're ok. I'm guessing it gives everyone a common operating picture and one central repository? Perhaps shared understanding will prevent you from being called or bothered at home, as everyone can see it if I understand what you mean with this system.

I'm back to you at home, not on property. Can you do anything about fluids on the floor? Except maybe know that needs doing when you come in tomorrow?

Is this tool tied to any accreditation items for when whatever they call JACHO now?

MSG (Anonymous) - well SPC (Join to see) there is your answer....Joint Commission finding. Good luck fighting that. They are the collective leinholders on your command's soul.

CSM, I completely understand where you’re coming from and I do believe that it will help in refining the flow of information. My concern is that with the growing dependence on technology has also grown the expectation of instant gratification. To what point should a soldier allow work technology (I’ll call it this because it’s a platform designed for the area I work in) into their private lives knowing fully that it not on becomes easier but also invites those with authority over you to turn your down time (for many family time) and personal space into work with out you even stepping foot into your work space. I’m not opposed to an technologically integrated world but we haven’t thought about the implications on how it will effect people in every aspect of life. I personally am not ready to invite work into my house, the restaurants I eat at, and the places I travel to.

I didn’t want to but I had to use pay period because for staffing and man hours at the hospital we have to log our time based on civilian pay periods.

I would still recommend you participate in the program, if certain leaders become invasive you can discuss with the COC and possibly recommend solutions or controls related to when someone can be contacted. If this is a new program it will require modifications. I now oversee many Federal employees, most of which are Bargaining Unit and there are many rules, none of which restrict communication but does place controls. SPC (Join to see)