Several managers have reported concerns about how passwords are used in your facility.

Problems reported include the following:

Passwords are being written down and placed near the computers.

Passwords are sometimes called across the nursing units.

Users do not log out when leaving a computer . Then someone else sits down and uses the computer with the previous user's password still in place.

You suspect there are other problems with the protection of passwords but you cannot provide them at this time.

What password management rules can you put in place to eliminate these problems? Include any other password problems that you suspect but cannot prove.