Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. Haunted Hospital

    Jo Dirt replied to DeadHeadRN's topic in General Nursing

    At 0430 you're eyes are going to play tricks on you. It's not as fun as believing in ghosts, but I'd bet you were a victim of that sensory perception thing our brains do to

  2. Persistent Nurse Recruiters?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I applied at this hospital for a day shift position and when the nurse recruiter called me to come in for an interview I declined when I found out he only had night shift available. I apologized but...

  3. Hostile Nurses

    Jo Dirt replied to golfergirl17's topic in General Nursing

    It sucks that some people never mature beyond a third grade

  4. Experience with Distance Ed NP programs

    Jo Dirt replied to Dr. Tammy, FNP/GNP-C's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Not everyone who prefers on-campus classes has to be spoon fed everything. Some people appreciate the variety and learning that come from the real world experiences of instructors (because you know...

  5. Persistent Nurse Recruiters?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I hear they are starting RNs at $16.00/hr. I thought maybe in 1988, but 2008? Don't think I can take a $9.00 an hour

  6. Who has read Echo Heron?

    Jo Dirt replied to LiveLoveLearn's topic in General Nursing

    I read Intensive Care. I found it to be very depressing from beginning to

  7. New nurse (RN) with doubts; advice needed soon!

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

    Medication passes are a big part of a LTC nurse's job. It certainly isn't glamorous, and you don't get to bask in the glory of being "the nurse" but it's what you make it to be. Maybe I'm spoiled, but...

  8. Starting a Boarding Home

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Well...the master bedroom is 20 by 20, maybe I could cram a few more in there, like a flop

  9. Persistent Nurse Recruiters?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    The recruiter has been calling and calling. I talked to him today and he talked me into coming in for an interview because "you never know what we have to offer if you don't at least come in and talk...

  10. Starting a Boarding Home

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I have some questions, I hope you don't mind. I know the assisted living facility here charges by what "tier" the person is, ambulatory is tier 1, walker + 1 person assist with goes up to tier...

  11. Would you put your family member in a LTC facility?

    Jo Dirt replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    In Tennessee, Medicaid pays way more for 24/7 private duty nurses than they pay nursing homes. This is why the system is

  12. Would you put your family member in a LTC facility?

    Jo Dirt replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    I would put my family member in the nursing home where I work now. The care they give is second to none. I know of several I would never put a family member in,

  13. Starting a Boarding Home

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I know operating a business is a 24 hour ordeal. I love old people, but truthfully, they are a huge liability. My father-in-law stayed in a boarding home until he kept falling and they refused...

  14. PEG Tubes: when is a "bolus" not a bolus?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    We have a PEG tube patient who strangles and aspirates very easily. So, we received orders to sit the patient straight upright with each bolus feeding and leave up 2 hours after the feeding. There is...

  15. PEG Tubes: when is a "bolus" not a bolus?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    It's so hard for me to do (correct another) I'd rather change ten colostomy bags than do it, and colostomies make me sicker than sick. So, like a big chicken I hid behind the ADON. It's nothing to get...

  16. PEG Tubes: when is a "bolus" not a bolus?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    They tried that. Also they tried keeping the head of his bed up but he would always scoot down in the bed and end up flat again. He was hospitalized twice for aspiration pneumonia. Bolus feedings in...

  17. PEG Tubes: when is a "bolus" not a bolus?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Semi Fowlers. I know she thought she was making it easier on herself, but to me it was way more trouble to drag out that pump and break out a feeding bag and go through all that instead of hand...

  18. PEG Tubes: when is a "bolus" not a bolus?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't stand it anymore and called the ADON. She says that putting a feeding on a pump is not a bolus and he's not supposed to be in a geri-recliner,

  19. When money is low...

    Jo Dirt replied to dipsett08's topic in General Nursing

    Do whatever your conscience will let you live

  20. How are you paying for your MSN?

    Jo Dirt replied to MommyandRN's topic in Post Graduate Students

    In Arkansas they have a program that will transfer your student loans to scholarships if you will agree to teach for each year you were in school. Tennessee has a similar loan forgiveness program....

  21. Rn to bsn online

    Jo Dirt replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    I am about to go into my last semester of the online RN to BSN program at Middle Tennessee State University. For an introvert like me, it is great. We still had group projects in a couple of classes...

  22. Having major concerns going the FNP route....

    Jo Dirt replied to jlcole45's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This worries me. I've gotten to where I have zero tolerance for idle chat myself. It may not seem idle to the people who are pouring their life stories out, but I find listening to them go on and on...

  23. Death bed visions

    Jo Dirt replied to legend0710's topic in General Nursing

    Oh no, this isn't a hostile statement at all... If more people would live by Occam's Razor the world would be a much better place, I'll just say

  24. Had a transvaginal exam, and I'm depressed.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been having some flank pain for a month or so, and I went in for an ultrasound. The technician was kind of gruff at first. Then as she was looking at the screen she asked me when I had my last...

  25. I really think I've been set up.

    Jo Dirt replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    I understand how you feel. There is a unit at the nursing home where they put the retiree's who just work a couple of days a week. There is one in her 70's. Anyway, I have to take over her hall as...