Horseshoe

Horseshoe BSN, RN

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  1. Which of following patients is at highest risk for fluid overload?

    Horseshoe replied to disenchanted1's topic in General Students

    Well, that turns out to be a big fat lie. You asked for the answers to FOUR questions for this quiz. You weren't utilizing your book and internet sources to help you formulate an answer, you just...

  2. Which of following patients is at highest risk for fluid overload?

    Horseshoe replied to disenchanted1's topic in General Students

    I'd be willing to bet that the permission to use the internet was given so that you could look at resources that discuss the issues at hand and come to your own conclusion based on the information you...

  3. Did you contract anything from a patient?

    Horseshoe replied to RNrhythm's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds reasonable to me! So glad you recovered without the need for intubation. No one wants that unless it's absolutely

  4. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Of course the offgoing nurse is unsafe at some point. My hypothetical does not include having fresh staff in house. If you had that, there is no issue to discuss. I'm talking about mass call offs, no...

  5. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses are considered essential personnel. The OP most likely would not qualify as essential in this

  6. Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    Horseshoe replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    In some of the large metropolitan areas, the only reason there is a "nursing shortage" is because the facilities REFUSE to hire enough nurses. They don't want to pay to staff their units well, so the...

  7. Racism in Nursing

    Horseshoe replied to eastcoastrn586's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I used to think we had come SO FAR with respect to racism in our country. I have been strongly disillusioned to find that this isn't true. What enlightened me to this issue was the development of the...

  8. Did you contract anything from a patient?

    Horseshoe replied to RNrhythm's topic in General Nursing

    Just curious about why you refused. I have a DNR agreement with my husband (and in my legal documents) that I am not to be intubated if terminally ill, but would agree to intubation if I have a...

  9. Evidence Base Research Shows...

    Horseshoe replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Well, most people I know who have spent the years getting a Ph.D actually DID learn a thing or two more than I

  10. Did I break HIPAA?

    Horseshoe replied to brunette2296's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    So the OP is a one post hit and run. Not so sure I believe this even

  11. Men not helpful

    Horseshoe replied to Sarah2018's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why yes, I think some people do. Agree, and a surprising number of people who work very hard to invalidate a feminist's viewpoint are other

  12. Was I wrong?

    Horseshoe replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    Lol, I have just learned a new word. Then again, I have gone on the record many times saying I learn something new here at AN every

  13. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, you know, you are actually right about

  14. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I think that's true in many instances, particularly if it is merely a staffing issue (they can always get agency nurses in), but with bad weather, when there literally is NO ONE to bring in, they...

  15. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    You are working in an ICU with a critically ill, vented patient. You've just worked a 12 hour night shift and you are dead on your feet. None of the day shift nurses feel safe driving in during a...

  16. Nursing School Probs

    Horseshoe replied to nurseboy12396's topic in General Students

    That isn't the reality of the world. "Kindness" just for the sake of making someone feel "good vibes" or not feel frustrated when they make mistakes is hard to come by in the working world. The OP's...

  17. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Give me a break. "Almost all" thought she should walk to work? NO. Not "almost all." ONE. ONE PERSON said she should walk to work, and many of us expressed our disagreement with that. Geez....

  18. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    The bold part (my emphasis) might be directed at a comment I made, but it wasn't about the OP (even though I mistakenly said it was). It was a reference to a raging troll poster who joined yesterday,...

  19. Nurses don't do their 3 med checks?

    Horseshoe replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Nursing

    I think 99.9999% care very much, at least about keeping their licenses and jobs. I would be willing to bet that the most common reason for med errors is unreasonable nurse to patient ratios and lack...

  20. OCNRN63

    Horseshoe replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    RIP. I always liked her posts. Direct, honest, to the

  21. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    No, because with my luck, another car would slip on the black ice and crash into

  22. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    OP flunked out of LPN school, so simply wannabe. But insists that "nurse" is not a legally protected term, that she was practicing at the RN level while in clinicals, and that simply joining AN makes...

  23. Was it verbal abuse? Y/N or maybe?

    Horseshoe replied to RivkaLev's topic in General Nursing

    Completely

  24. Evidence Base Research Shows...

    Horseshoe replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    More likely, in the car on the way to work. ETA: I see Blondy beat me to

  25. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Horseshoe replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't walk 15 miles in the dark during a snowstorm for any amount of