Personnal lives or reckless?

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i have a question as nurses when should it be a "you should know better because your a medical professional" or if it is just living out lives?

see i often wonder if my hobby is one of recklessness or not. i ride horses, but not only ride its kind of a passion. i compete (or did last summer) and i do quite a bit of training. so here is the reckless part, i take 1500 pound animals to 4ft fences at quite an alarming pace (its faster than it looks). and if the horses get scared or just doesn't agree with my plans i can end up kissing the dirt or worse the fence or the horse's feet. i also start from scratch on several horses each summer, being the first one on a horse is an incredible feeling, and being with them as they start to understand that riding can be a fun and exiting.

i feel on top of the world when i'm riding and at the barn, i would never give up that feeling for anything. i know it is a dangerous hobby, and i have my riding injury list (a few to many broken bones, and 3 concussions) but to me it is worth it.

what hobbies do other nurses have that maybe could also be considered reckless or fall into the category or "you should know better"? i'm just trying to learn more about the people whose profession i will soon be joining.

thanx sr

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i reread and edited and some of the spelling and grammer, but i'm sure it's still not perfect:p

EH HEM! Yes, who DID say that? :chair: :rotfl: Nurse's would NEVER do that would we?!?!?!? :uhoh3:

Pam

Heavens, no!

We would never, smoke, drink, eat fatty foods, or jay-walk, either! :rotfl: :p

I don't think anyone is devaluing proper spelling and grammar. They're just remarking upon how petty it is to point out such errors while largely ignoring the substance of the post, and how bitter such a critique seems.

I agree. However, I reserve the right to correct people when they write HIPPA instead of the correct HIPAA! :p

Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
I agree. However, I reserve the right to correct people when they write HIPPA instead of the correct HIPAA! :p

I see that mistake a lot; even in professional publications. The director of our state's Title V program sent out a memo with it spelled the wrong way. Somehow, I didn't think it would be a wise career move to send her a note pointing out her mistake! :rotfl:

I sure hope so!

I don't ride as much as I used to (my boys are dangerously close to becoming pasture ornaments) but I raised my 4-year-old from a 5-month-old weanling who was rescued from a meat packing plant. He has been the light of my life ever since he entered it, and I did not leave my cheating, abusive ex-husband until I was able to get Bailey home with me. I was prepared to sell a kidney if necessary. When I ride him, I do it very carefully, more out of concern for screwing him up for life than for me. But it is exhilarating- nothing, nothing, nothing comes close to hearing the wind whip past you from the back of a galloping horse. And when he's your baby, and you have that bond established with him, it's just surreal. Gets me a little teary-eyed just thinking about it.

It has been my experience that horse people, or anyone else with a hobby/passion, are just too content with themselves and life in general to even consider making the effort to compose lengthy, snippy criticisms over another person's spelling. Trust me, if you're raising horses, and your other job is nursing, you don't have that kind of time.

As wannabee has not yet responded to any of this, I trust that (s?)he has finally found a hobby of his/her own. ;)

Oops! I meant I sure hope wannabee has finally found a hobby/got a life :chuckle I'm still kind of new at this computer stuff.

Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

Danger? I laugh at danger! I've driven in Pittsburgh. Even worse, I've been a passenger with my son (think's he's Dale Ernhardt Jr.) driving in Pittsburgh. We're talking scary.

Hobbies in my 'younger' years: riding horses, motorcycles,mud racing,riding 4wheelers,dancing,swimming.

Hobbies now:sleeping,eating,surfing the net,yard work......

Dang...I just realized how BORINGGGGGGG I've become...lol ;)

i road bulls at jackpot rodeos and buckouts, until i got hung up and my right leg was stepped on and crushed, took me 2 yrs to recover

i have a question as nurses when should it be a "you should know better because your a medical professional" or if it is just living out lives?

see i often wonder if my hobby is one of recklessness or not. i ride horses, but not only ride its kind of a passion. i compete (or did last summer) and i do quite a bit of training. so here is the reckless part, i take 1500 pound animals to 4ft fences at quite an alarming pace (its faster than it looks). and if the horses get scared or just doesn't agree with my plans i can end up kissing the dirt or worse the fence or the horse's feet. i also start from scratch on several horses each summer, being the first one on a horse is an incredible feeling, and being with them as they start to understand that riding can be a fun and exiting.

i feel on top of the world when i'm riding and at the barn, i would never give up that feeling for anything. i know it is a dangerous hobby, and i have my riding injury list (a few to many broken bones, and 3 concussions) but to me it is worth it.

what hobbies do other nurses have that maybe could also be considered reckless or fall into the category or "you should know better"? i'm just trying to learn more about the people whose profession i will soon be joining.

thanx sr

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i reread and edited and some of the spelling and grammer, but i'm sure it's still not perfect:p

OUCH! That's giving me an unpleasant flashback to MY last time up on a horse! For the first time EVER in all my years of riding, I got hung up in the stirrup leather (probably because I was trying to adjust the stirrup when the horse exploded on me.) I nearly broke both my ankle and my foot, tore ligaments and muscles in my knee, and loosened up my hip joint. Three years later, I still have a sore hip, and a pinched sciatic nerve and an ankle that swells up if I'm on my feet too much.

But I STILL want to go back to riding in the worst way! Next time, I won't pick a horse that hasn't been ridden in nearly 2 years, or make the assumption that because he's a 14 year old gelding, he's going to be easy to handle. (Yes, I did have someone holding him, and he was on a chain lead shank with the chain across his nose. Didn't do much good, except get the holder a nasty burn across the arm from the shank.)

Just because you can or cannot spell does not make you the best nurse. Our nursing instructor told us an A student in nursing school does not mean anything, usually the C nurses made the best nurses. We cannot be perfect in eveything, we can only do the best we can. Constructive criticism is effective, but criticism as criticism is destructive:nono: .

I ride horses too, it is a stress reliever for me, I know what you mean about being on top of the world when riding. For "non-horse" people, if you do not have horses "in your blood", then please, for their sake, leave them alone. Just admire them from a distance. Horses are easy to become a passion. Horse people know the risks involved, and we are willing to take that risk. Everybody takes risks, in their own way, every day.

Keep riding and remember, as Sir Winston Churchill said, and I quote, "Time spent in saddle is never wasted".

My best friend and I came up with a good one as well, "What's said in the saddle, stays in the saddle"!

Specializes in OR.
I think that was pretty mean, and that you did mean it. Was it really necessary to be that harsh? I believe grammar reflects professionalism also-but that was just uncalled for. Aren't tact and compassion required for nursing? If so, I suggest you practice those aspects before entering the profession :uhoh21:.
:yeahthat: I have known some extremely intelligent people who have problems with spelling and while I don't have problems with spelling usually, when I write on the computer, I tend to make spelling errors. Wannabe:That post just seemed unnecessarily vicious and I think you'll find when you get into school that no one is perfect and people make mistakes(yes, even you!). I'd much rather have someone make a spelling error, than a med error. Never heard of anyone dying over bad grammar either.:rolleyes: Does getting tattoos count as a hobby? I'm thinking of a fifth one. I might also try skiing this winter. P.S I had to edit this post twice because of a spelling error, and I graduated NS with honors.

My hobby is one that is "reckless," I catch, study and release poisonous snakes. Or rather, I should say that I USED to, because dh does not like to see his wife with a rattlesnake around her neck. But before I was married, I caught and released literally hundreds of venemous snakes. I catch them barehanded, make them look at my left hand and then swoop down and grab them behind the head with my right. I have caught barehanded every poisonous snake indigenous to the southeast US except for a pygmy rattler (too small to catch safely by hand) and a coral snake (have not found one of those yet.) I need to upload some of my pics, one of my last ones was a seven foot long timber rattler that I caught on my stepdad's farm and released a couple miles into the woods.

I know it seems like a reckless thing to do, but I love reptiles and have studied them extensively. I have never been bit (well, not by a venemous snake but I have taken a bite from two white oak snakes that didn't like being caught) and I have always loved it. I miss it, actually...

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