Horseshoe

Horseshoe BSN, RN

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  1. Nursing is slavery Period!!!

    Horseshoe replied to sonia211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All the negs keep insisting "nursing is hell...nursing is no breaks...nursing is no appreciation...nursing is slavery..., etc." I've been a nurse for 16 years, and I've never had that experience. So...

  2. Nursing is slavery Period!!!

    Horseshoe replied to sonia211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Call me optimistic, but I'm thinking there just may be a happy medium between writing a dissertation and

  3. Nursing is slavery Period!!!

    Horseshoe replied to sonia211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yep. MUCH higher, in

  4. Nursing is slavery Period!!!

    Horseshoe replied to sonia211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't recall people "bashing" this nurse for complaining (maybe one was particularly snarky). Several of us take issue with her equating nursing to slavery, as we have every right to do on a...

  5. Would you work this schedule...is it safe?

    Horseshoe replied to RNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    An interesting look at how the Baylor Plan evolved: the excerpt is from an article entitled "History of Nursing at Baylor University Medical Center" by Linda F. Garner, Ph.D, RN, and Karen Anne...

  6. Would you work this schedule...is it safe?

    Horseshoe replied to RNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    The "Baylor Plan" was first instituted at the Baylor Hospital system and did not involve 16's. It was two twelve hour shifts on the weekends which paid the nurse the same as working full time during...

  7. Nursing is slavery Period!!!

    Horseshoe replied to sonia211's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree. The OP and others have made some valid points about the nursing profession. Equating it to slavery is pure

  8. HR lied to Unemployment!!

    Horseshoe replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    So how is a hospital supposed to protect itself from horrible employees? If a nurse calls in all the time, or just doesn't show up, makes serious errors, is caught stealing, takes extended breaks,...

  9. Refusing the Influenza Vaccine

    Horseshoe replied to TheAmazingMrsA's topic in General Students

    You said it was the same shot "year, after year, after year" as though the vaccine never changes. Just not true. Also, the last flu pandemic was in 2009; before that, a very lethal one occurred in...

  10. Nursing student afraid of urinary catheters!

    Horseshoe replied to 49*1's topic in General Students

    The only time I insert catheters these days is in the OR, and my patients are all asleep, so we don't use any kind of numbing agent (nor did we when I worked ICU and patients were awake). What kind...

  11. Why did/are you getting your BSN?

    Horseshoe replied to thesundowner's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I got a BSN because, with a previous BS degree, it would have been rather stupid to not go for it. Most of my pre-reqs from my other degree transferred (the English, Government, humanities, etc....

  12. Devastated :(

    Horseshoe replied to ixchel's topic in General Students

    They apparently have already awarded the scholarship to someone else. They are not going to call him or her and take it back, no matter what you tell them. You'll land on your feet somewhere else....

  13. Studying less and less as the program goes on

    Horseshoe replied to QuarterLife88's topic in General Students

    That wasn't my experience at all. While I still had a lot to learn after graduation, MUCH of my education was directly

  14. Refusing the Influenza Vaccine

    Horseshoe replied to TheAmazingMrsA's topic in General Students

    It's not the same injection. It changes from year to

  15. write-up for insubordination because I turned my back to cry...

    Horseshoe replied to farmernurse26's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Old thread, but two things come to mind: a)MD is a total a$$. b)completely separate from that, turning your back on a supervisor while being critiqued, criticized, whatever, whether crying or not,...

  16. Studying less and less as the program goes on

    Horseshoe replied to QuarterLife88's topic in General Students

    If you are going for a graduate nurse internship, grades may well be very important. I applied for two critical care internships at the end of my last semester. Both had minimum 3.5 GPA...

  17. Is it worth travelling 4 hrs to work?

    Horseshoe replied to RNHURT's topic in General Nursing

    No

  18. School's hidden agenda, "NCLEX pass rate: Weed out students who will not pass"

    Horseshoe replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Students

    very interesting story. i'm just curious about how the conversation went when you told her you could find no evidence that the process was unfair and that she really didn't have what it takes to pass...

  19. School's hidden agenda, "NCLEX pass rate: Weed out students who will not pass"

    Horseshoe replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Students

    What nursing

  20. She got fired...

    Horseshoe replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    People keep grasping at possible explanations for this story. There ARE NONE. It's completely

  21. She got fired...

    Horseshoe replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah! What she

  22. She got fired...

    Horseshoe replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like the kid on Modern Family last week. He started a fire in the chemistry lab, put it out, then got a medal for it because the teacher thought he had innocently come upon it. Only in this...

  23. Hospital Won't Hire Obese Workers

    Horseshoe replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    Ha ha. True. If bad spelling/grammar could eliminate a candidate from contention, we wouldn't have many nurses in our hospitals, would we? How many times have you seen "patient's" instead of...

  24. She got fired...

    Horseshoe replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    I did, but haven't had my coffee, and that irony slipped right by

  25. Texting while doing patient care?

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

    That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on this