Horseshoe

Horseshoe BSN, RN

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  1. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It's not actually funny, but I admit that did make me laugh. I think she did indeed send

  2. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I've only been a staff nurse, and I do know the stress of having a number of patients, all with compelling interests/problems that compete for my time when I can only be in one place at a time....

  3. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure I agree. If she is giving drugs or performing interventions, she is just as legally responsible for that action as any other nurse who gives a drug or performs an intervention. If she screws...

  4. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Unless that was addressed in the report and I just didn't catch it, it's possible that she had numerous calls for other patient interventions waiting for her attention such that she was stressed and...

  5. If you could give one piece of advice back when you were a new grad RN, what would it be?

    Horseshoe replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    SLOW down when giving meds or treatments. Other times you can hurry, but letting someone pressure you to work too quickly or being distracted while pulling your meds can hurt or kill your patient and...

  6. Nursing school has pushed me to the edge. Anyone else?

    Horseshoe replied to misskayy's topic in General Students

    If you have been late to clinical "so many times," skip classes, and ignore the advice of your clinical instructors, yet are still passing, I don't know what you are complaining about. Perhaps you are...

  7. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding medical malpractice insurance, I don't believe it would be of help to her:

  8. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Do we know that they haven't? Haven't others said that they don't disclose that until all investigation is complete and a decision has been made? I don't know anything about Tennessee BON practices,...

  9. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    We *may* get to hear her side of the story, but it's not likely. If she takes a plea deal, we won't hear it, and if she goes to trial, her lawyer will most likely advise against her testifying....

  10. What if/Is it possible?

    Horseshoe replied to CollegeStudStudent's topic in General Nursing

    Are you just curious, or is there some other reason why you

  11. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Does malpractice insurance cover one for criminal charges? I never read that small print on my own insurance-like most, I was more interested in how I would be covered for accusations of malpractice,...

  12. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    If any of you follow ZDoggMD's Youtube channel, you may have seen his video on the Vanderbilt medication error. Like most of us, he was shocked and appalled. After watching this, I saw he posted his...

  13. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    We have civil law and criminal law. Losing her license and possibly being named in a civil lawsuit would be "legal consequences-"but they would be civil, not criminal

  14. Is It Possible to Never Make an Error? The Perfect Nurse Fallacy

    Horseshoe replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    We see stories here all of the time from nurses who were fired for medication errors, and I'm not talking about errors that killed a patient. Anecdotes, I

  15. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    There seem to be A LOT of people who wrongly believe that a homicide charge must include malice or

  16. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Just to clarify, there have been only a very few posters here who advocate no "legal consequences." But we have civil and criminal legal consequences in our country, and that seems to be where the...

  17. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The stated goal of any prosecutor is to get a conviction or guilty plea, give me a break. I'm no more "desperate" (talk about hyperbole) than you to state my opinion, and my opinion doesn't seem to be...

  18. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It's not self serving to state the obvious conclusion which can be drawn from my statement: because nurses don't want to go to jail and don't want to see their peers go to jail, the transparency that...

  19. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Of course they do. Throwing them in jail is not the only way to accomplish that, as we all know. Even nurses found to have diverted medications in some really outrageous circumstances rarely find...

  20. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you are. But I think there are some who are absolutely taking a sick kind of pleasure in it. The public reaction goes far beyond

  21. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I certainly have no idea. I do know that from time to time, charges are dropped by the prosecution even after grand jury indictment, even after a trial has begun. But I don't have any statistics. I'm...

  22. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No, I don't. But it's the prosecutor who takes the case to the grand jury in the first place. Grand juries don't just go around indicting people a year after an event. The prosecutor could have...

  23. Desperate and need advice

    Horseshoe replied to injured1's topic in General Students

    This is important. Even with documented disabilities, schools only have to make accommodations that are "reasonable." Their definition of reasonable may not line up with what you want or need, and...

  24. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Just want to point out that just because her actions may meet the criteria for the criminal charge doesn't mean the prosecutor is required to charge her. Prosecutors decline to file charges all of the...

  25. Nurses Call the Governor of Tennessee

    Horseshoe replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    While I support BON discipline for this nurse, I do not feel criminal charges are an appropriate response. HOWEVER, please note that the charges this nurse faces DO NOT require that there be any...