Horseshoe

Horseshoe BSN, RN

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  1. Question regarding where I stand with my job (long, but with paragraphs!)

    Horseshoe replied to Alisonisayoshi's topic in General Nursing

    Talk to the provider. It doesn't matter if you are right if HE doesn't see a problem with this. You'll just keep running into a brick

  2. Is this legal?

    Horseshoe replied to nursemeem624's topic in Private Duty

    How could it be a HIPAA violation if the parents have willingly shared the info with her? There may well be some violations of some sort here, but I don't see HIPAA being one of

  3. Suspended without pay for expired TB requirement?

    Horseshoe replied to lsvalliant's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, what a fantastic example of failure to take ownership of one's own actions! I can totally see forgetting to get this done. But that's on you. You're a grown up. Act like one. I let my ACLS...

  4. Lacking compassion?

    Horseshoe replied to Rbrown12's topic in General Nursing

    I totally respect the need for emotional and professional detachment. But feeling nothing EVER for these people you knew...might be a problem. Maybe you are trying to so distance yourself that you...

  5. Seven Hells: Vent

    Horseshoe replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Maybe they just aren't as impressed with you after seven months as you believe they should be. If so, that doesn't reflect double standards at all. Just that they don't see your qualifications in the...

  6. Seven Hells: Vent

    Horseshoe replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Okay, I get feeling disappointed. I understand being frustrated. I even can sympathize with feeling impatient and wanting to move into one's dream specialty. What I don't get is being "furious."...

  7. Seven Hells: Vent

    Horseshoe replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What a strange post. Someone literally just asked the OP if she had a BSN or ASN, so that response was indeed relevant and definitely NOT "very

  8. We were all wrong about nursing home nurses

    Horseshoe replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I don't see how you can possibly keep them all straight. I don't care how healthy they might be, this kind of ratio would give me regular anxiety nightmares. I really don't know how even super nurse...

  9. junctional vs sinus bradycardia

    Horseshoe replied to kaitef07's topic in General Nursing

    I was just going to suggest that perhaps he had converted to a sinus brady when the doc looked at

  10. Can You work as an RN towards the end of Nursing school?

    Horseshoe replied to LelahRN2be's topic in General Nursing

    No who is not an RN can work as an RN, by definition. Any nursing student who is working as an RN has already passed the NCLEX and is a licensed, registered nurse. They may simply be getting...

  11. I'm not 20 anymore

    Horseshoe replied to Ruger8mm's topic in General Nursing

    It may not be your age so much as your employment circumstances. I bike for at least an hour five days a week. I think I'm in pretty good shape, and I'm only on one med (and have been able to get it...

  12. Would you hire an MUSC grad over anyone else?

    Horseshoe replied to lowkey_44's topic in General Nursing

    Even that's not true. DH has a degree in Finance from a state school in Texas that probably wouldn't even make the top 5 list here, but he and MANY of his former college classmates have had very...

  13. after 35 years, I cannot believe it

    Horseshoe replied to Carolyn1234's topic in General Nursing

    I would give a very measured, calm, rational, and professional resignation letter. Give plenty of notice and don't call in sick in the meantime. You will want to have a good reference from these...

  14. could get fired!

    Horseshoe replied to RNmoms's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just curious why the OP felt it necessary to point out that it was a "male nurse" who approached her daughter about cheating. It sounds like the OP's daughter is ethically challenged or very...

  15. Do you tell family members that their loved ones are nasty and combative

    Horseshoe replied to DesiDani's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Discuss the behaviors. There is no need to add descriptions such as "nasty." Stick to the facts and leave the subjective statements out of it. The objective statements of specific behaviors pretty...

  16. Grade confusion. Help pls.

    Horseshoe replied to guest935762's topic in General Students

    Wow, what a roller coaster. Sorry you had to go through that, but glad it worked out in the

  17. We were all wrong about nursing home nurses

    Horseshoe replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    "We" were not "all wrong" because "all" of us did not hold that opinion. I would rather flip burgers than work in LTC, not because the nurses there are of a lesser caliber. It's because they are...

  18. Report vent turned mega vent

    Horseshoe replied to loveoutloud's topic in General Nursing

    But why would you report them? That just sounds really juvenile. Why wouldn't you address this adult to adult instead of running off to tattle? If you have a chronic problem with a coworker, you've...

  19. Cali to Texas endorsement verification issue

    Horseshoe replied to nursevm's topic in General Nursing

    You can email the Texas BON with questions. They have answered every email I have ever sent

  20. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

    Horseshoe replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN to RN

    This is very important. You don't know what you don't know. Be open to learning. It will make you a far better nurse. There are LPNs on this forum who insist that the only difference between them...

  21. Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    Horseshoe replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    This is completely off topic. Please start your own

  22. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

    Horseshoe replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN to RN

    No, they wouldn't necessarily figure it out. Especially if you aren't acting like a pedantic boor. I don't know what to tell you other than to say DO NOT NAG students. You are not their mother, you...

  23. Looking for advice

    Horseshoe replied to LeanneNis's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if you had postpartum depression that, left untreated, has snowballed into a chronic condition. Coupled with your history of anxiety, it's no wonder you are feeling lousy. The fact that you...

  24. Nurses thrown under the bus

    Horseshoe replied to GM1928's topic in General Nursing

    Just because the doc was negligent doesn't mean that nursing wasn't ALSO derelict. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Trust me, in a personal injury lawsuit involving something of this nature,...

  25. Code Black

    Horseshoe replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think anyone is going to intubate a patient by virtue of one 89% reading which is sudden and short lived. We get low sats ALL the time on my unit. They usually rebound immediately, after...