Horseshoe

Horseshoe BSN, RN

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  1. please call them out on this bs because that's exactly what it is. tell them that you are familiar with your state's nurse practice act and that you know that giving less than four weeks notice is...
  2. What do I do???finanlly got a job but....

    I am sincerely not trying to be harsh, but I don't understand why, if things are as bad as you say, that you haven't just gotten a job, ANY job to at least get some savings going for just the...
  3. Endoscopy RN...would you recommend it?

    Don't you utilize CRNAs in
  4. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    Oh, you are
  5. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    I honestly don't see the problem either. I worked as a tech in a trauma ICU while I was in nursing school. It never occurred to me to even wonder what a security officer would make, but had I found...
  6. So, based on the responses to your thread, the answer is NO, it does not matter where you go to school, and YES, it matters very much where you went to school. I'm glad we were able to help you
  7. Patient Abandonment?!?!

    If you never accepted the assignment, it cannot be construed as patient abandonment. Get a lawyer; I think you will be
  8. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    lol. you didn't admit that until after esme posted. so how was she to know that when she responded to your
  9. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    Why do you feel you should make more money than a security guard? EDIT: don't want to put words in your mouth. Why do you feel it's unfair that a security guard would make more than
  10. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    Your post came off that way...for some reason you don't want to admit that, but that's how it sounded based on what you said. You know, the world really wouldn't end if you said, "Hey, I now see how...
  11. Pay discrepancies? Security makes more then ER tech?

    how "dare" she? you are the one who used the word "lesser." she was reacting to that and cannot be expected to know that you don't mean what you say when you choose your words or that you were...
  12. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    What they "should" be permitted to do by law is irrelevant and completely subjective. Right now they are permitted to do so. We have the right to refuse to work for any entity which imposes this...
  13. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    Yes, you are. If a facility mandates a flu shot, or any other condition that you find distasteful (such as crappy insurance, poor nurse to patient ratio, a practice of denying lunch breaks,...
  14. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    No health care worker has EVER been "FORCED" to get a flu shot, or any other shot for that matter, and asserting it is so is disingenuous. No one has ever taken away your autonomy as it relates to the...
  15. That's often the case, but sometimes the nurses are "giving in" not to shut him up, but because they disagree with your rationale for withholding. It's not always black and
  16. I can't really think of anything I don't like about my NM. She gets right in there and helps us out when things get hairy, circulates in the procedure rooms, is the "go to" person for hard sticks...
  17. I can't understand what you're saying!

    To be honest, I never even thought of it from that perspective. I'm a native speaker and find it visually difficult to follow passages which have a lot of text speak, so I can imagine the challenges...
  18. I can't understand what you're saying!

    Everyone has their pet peeves. Yours may just be different ones that would seem petty to someone
  19. I can't understand what you're saying!

    No, "everyone" has not moved on with this. I have two young daughters who refuse to use text speak even in their texts. One could also say that if people don't like the Terms of Service on this web...
  20. No breaks (class action lawsuit)

    I went many days not taking a bathroom break on a 12 hour shift (though with no time to drink anything, some days this wasn't a huge feat). I agree, it's terrible for bladder/kidney health. I have...
  21. It's certainly possible that a med error could be noted in a performance review, particularly if it had serious consequences or was a pattern rather than an isolated event. Also, the person calling...
  22. IVP vs IVPB

    it's really not my style to come off as harsh, but if she has a problem giving narcs, she has no business working in a surgical unit. really, this is a personal problem of hers that needs to be...
  23. IVP vs IVPB

    as a blanket policy, that's just crazy. if she's not "comfortable pushing them," she has a problem- ivp drugs appropriately ordered at the proper dose and with consideration given to patient...
  24. In your opinion, which is more addictive tylenol 3 or tramadol?

    but if we do that we won't get to be indignant and
  25. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    Of course there is a right to refuse. No facility will ever give a flu shot in the face of that refusal. But in the face of that refusal, there may be consequences. Unlike the right to refuse...