LoisJean

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1. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   You have made my day! Thank you for responding to my post. I am excited about the changes that have taken place over the years with my business. And, I am excited for you and the changes you are...

2. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   No assumption there...I have owned and operated my business for ten years. I am known in my community as a business woman, as a nurse and as a provider of foot care--all in the same package. My...

3. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Thank you so much, Tutti! I agree with you...it was tough! And, for me at times, still is. With the addition of nurses working along side of me--all with the same goal in mind and with their...

4. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Thank you, all of you... I can't recall how long ago it was when I first came to this forum and shared my experiences as a Nurse Entrepreneur--owning and operating my own private duty foot care...

5. Photos of Wounds on PDA's

   LoisJean replied to CarVsTree's topic in General Nursing

   As foot care nurses we never leave home without our poloroids. Pictures are taken ONLY with signed consent from the client or the client's legal guardian. When we admit someone to our service, we...

6. Beware Gastric Bypass with stapeling!

   LoisJean replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   My husband had the Roux n Y (open) 2 years ago. I have lived with this man for a long time...he was not, is not a lazy sort. Todd seems to be the one with the compassion and insight here...you're...

7. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Angelbear: Take yourself and your toes to a podiatrist. Let him decide the diagnosis and treatment. There are many conditions which mimic the appearance of onycomycosis but a culture of the nail...

8. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Greetings! and all is well, but very, very busy- (which is a good thing and would be an even better thing if I were 20 years younger!) I have a foot care client who is a Veteran. He has IDDM and can...

9. Foot care training

   LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Well, here I am again....I wanted to add: Since the addition to my nursing staff here, we have set up new foot care clinics at 3 Senior Centers, gained 2 more senior apartment complex clinic sites...

10. Foot care training

    LoisJean replied to kernow's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Hi, Guys!! Erin, it's the way of this world....Canada, Germany and a few other European countries all have nurses trained in the delivery of foot care...and the government provides payment. But not...

11. Nurses with Adult ADD

    LoisJean replied to echo*echo's topic in General Nursing

    lunakat: Yes, I had been diagnosed with depression some years before I was diagnosed with ADD and had been taking Zoloft for it. However, I know now that the depression was partly (and maybe all)...

12. Nurses with Adult ADD

    LoisJean replied to echo*echo's topic in General Nursing

    Greetings, fellow ADDers. I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder two years ago. I am 56 years old. I belong to a generation of people who were not diagnosed in childhood because there was...

13. Nurses Going to Medical School

    LoisJean replied to pnurseuwm's topic in General Nursing

    My MD was a nurse before going to med school. She came up the old fashioned way....nurse's aide, LPN, RN, MSN then MD. She's so very good with her patients...and she's not afraid to say, "I don't...

14. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    LoisJean replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    The kind of 'customer service' insisted upon by corporate hospitals is geared to do nothing more than make that business look good to the average consumer who partakes of their services. The nurse,...

15. "Duties of the Floor Nurse-1887"

    LoisJean replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    In 1932 when my Mom was in nursing school, they were responsible for the dietary needs of their patients, too. Among all the other duties-including mopping, dusting and laundry detail, special diets...