Jo Dirt

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  1. Why do dying people reach upward?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've noticed that when it gets toward the end for people (not necessarily the VERY end, but maybe the last month or so when they have started really going downhill) they will hold their arms upward...

  2. Cheesy Activities in LTC

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I would please like to post this here to see if I get more responses... The activities director and coordinator at the LTC facility where I am employed work very hard, but they have been there many...

  3. Any of your preggy patients crave toxic things like PineSol?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know if it has anything to do with being pregnant, but I'm craving the smell of PineSol and Comet. I'll go wipe the counters or clean the toilet or mop the floor just so I can smell it. My...

  4. Starting a Boarding Home

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've got a 2500 square foot house with four bedrooms and two bathrooms on 17 acres. We are going to move this summer (back to our old farm) but I don't really want to sell this property. I would like...

  5. Night Shift: What are your sleep patterns?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to start working night shift 7pm-7am. This sucks because I'm a person who likes to go to bed early and get up with the sun. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, so until I can...

  6. Freaking out over wound vac

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know my problems are meaningless to you all but that doesn't make them go away. Please help with some words of encouragement. I was called out today to a new admits house to change a dressing (no...

  7. Vanderbilt Pay Scale

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I don't expect it to be any better than anywhere else, but I don't know what anywhere else pays, either. I'm thinking of signing on with them but I wonder what I can expect to make? The drive will be...

  8. Hallucinations in the Elderly

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My 82 y/o father-in-law has been living a few hundred feet away in a trailer we set up for him this past summer. He's been there since August. He came up to the house today and says he doesn't want to...

  9. What exactly does "First Assist" mean?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Operating Room

    My husband is about to undergo a radical nephrectomy. The urologist uses a First Assist. I've heard about First Assists before, but exactly what do they

  10. What if you can't hit a vein to draw blood?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    At my HH job I was sent out to draw a lab on this woman who has a portacath. I told the boss I've never drawn blood from a portacath and she gives me this instruction sheet and tells me it's easier...

  11. Psychiatric NP AND Psychologist?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just out of curiosity...I've been torn between being a NP and psychologist for a long time. I am finishing a BSN with a minor in psychology and wonder if it would be feaseable to eventually be a NP...

  12. Have you seen Zyprexa, Risperdal, Remeron...make a difference?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    These meds are expensive and used liberally in the nursing home. I cannot tell they make any difference in the patients they are used in. We recently had an inservice where this was discussed, and...

  13. Well, this sucks (misadventures in online nursing school).

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Students

    I'm about to graduate from a local university with a BSN (I did the online RN to BSN...wasn't totally online, I had to go to clinicals and such). You know those silly elective classes they make you...

  14. Methodist Hospital in Dallas?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Is this a good place to work? I'm in Tennessee but the jobs have dried up and we are thinking of a move, maybe to

  15. Baby-ish Activities?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    The activities director and coordinator at the LTC facility where I am employed work very hard, but they have been there many years and it seems they need some new ideas. The activities are so...

  16. Got into MSN/ MGH....now what...

    Jo Dirt replied to drfitness's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm the sole wage earner in my family of 6 (4 children and a husband) and I am about to start a FNP program that's total cost will be 15-17k. The first year I can probably work at least 3 days a week....

  17. Need advice from experienced LTC nurses.

    Jo Dirt replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    this is hard to sift through. let me run this through my little orphan annie secret decoder pin and i'll get back to

  18. Need advice from experienced LTC nurses.

    Jo Dirt replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I have never understood why people whine about the loads they are expected to carry at the nursing homes. Nursing homes are NOT acute care hospitals! They focus on...

  19. My God, these family members!!

    Jo Dirt replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They don't put up with crap like that where I work. The DON tells them with a quickness that if we can't meet their needs Mom or Pop can be hauled out of there in a heartbeat. This doesn't mean we...

  20. Very upset and depressed...almost got fired

    Jo Dirt replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    For one thing, what kind of stone-aged place is this that doesn't have provisions in place to allow weekend admissions? For another thing, the facility needs to blame itself if it didn't go over this...

  21. To all the mothers: Day Care Advice (long)

    Jo Dirt replied to Prettyladie's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't legally marry my childrens' father until the oldest was 9 years old and I still called him my "husband." It was nobody's business, but it saved a lot of explaining. I was an LPN/LVN, I was...

  22. To all the mothers: Day Care Advice (long)

    Jo Dirt replied to Prettyladie's topic in General Nursing

    I'll be Frank (and I'll be Earnest, too) but I can only make assumptions, forgive me if I'm wrong. When you say "boyfriend" I am just assuming this is not the father of your infant. If you have not...

  23. Where Do People Dream This Stuff Up?

    Jo Dirt replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This makes me

  24. I can't wait until you become a NP, then, you can write us prescriptions!

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    At the nursing home where I work the other nurses just say, I can't wait until you become a NP, then, you can write us

  25. Need advice from experienced LTC nurses.

    Jo Dirt replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would challenge you to come work where I work. Other than that, this kind of statement will only perpetuate the myth that all nursing homes are horrible. Nursing homes are a fact of life. People go...