Jo Dirt

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  1. How do (or did) you study?

    Jo Dirt replied to daydreamer7130's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think you're suffering major burnout because I am too. I've gotten almost to the end of the semester and I feel like I can't do anymore. I should be working on an assignment now but I'm so numb I...

  2. Fantasy World -Education vs Fighting

    Jo Dirt replied to CraigB-RN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    So, I wonder, will the DNPs be called

  3. 1 year, 2 years, or 3? or 5?

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

    And how! It makes me feel more and more foolish (and resentful) as I toil away on papers (discussing total BS) and jump through hoops. I guess I get to do a couple of more years of it, too. Won't get...

  4. I am GETTING out of hospital work! This is BULL!

    Jo Dirt replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing homes are no better. They expect us to come in if we have to crawl. It's funny, though, pencil pushers (administrators) and supervisors can take sick time off without anyone questioning it....

  5. Not just another Online vs. Gound program question.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well, I'm killing myself trying to finish a BSN by May 2009 so I can go to NP school (I should be studying right now but I've jumped through so many hoops and I'm feeling burned out so I'm taking a...

  6. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    Jo Dirt replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Yea, I'd go through an extra year of school for that. Unfortunately, I don't believe it. I'm not calling the poster dishonest, I just think he/she has been fed a pipe

  7. I'm only 22 years old.

    Jo Dirt replied to oncologynurse77's topic in General Nursing

    Only 22? I've been in nursing since I was 21. Now that I'm 33, I have matured a lot and learned a lot one the way, too. But I never thought I'm only 21, I'm too young to be subjected to all this...

  8. Embarassing...

    Jo Dirt replied to momwithajob2's topic in General Nursing

    I had to go give flu shots at the senior citizens center. Most people were like, "It's already over? I didn't feel a thing!" Then there were some who bowed up and whined and hissed like I was killing...

  9. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    Jo Dirt replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    100K doesn't mean what it used to. Not to mention, it puts you in a higher tax bracket to knock you back down to about

  10. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    Jo Dirt replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Boy, you hit the nail on the head with

  11. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I've been suffering through Health Care Research (undergrad), hoping I will make it through the end of the semester when I can be home-free. FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST!... I was looking through...

  12. Not just another Online vs. Gound program question.

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

    Thank you. I will look at that thread. I think I just need a break. As hard as life gets, it makes it easier when you don't eat yellow

  13. Not just another Online vs. Gound program question.

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

    Why is this something to get defensive over and pull out the boxing gloves? Is it not the truth? Why is a master's prepared NP inferior to someone who has a doctorate, as far as being able to practice...

  14. Not just another Online vs. Gound program question.

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

    Would that be online? What about those who are NPs already, are they going to have to start going to school again? Is a pay increase going to come with the added schooling? (I'm thinking no.) I'm...

  15. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

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

    I hear all that romancing/soliciting from drug representatives is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Good thing, too. I can't stand when they are pushing their way ahead of patients' appointment...

  16. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

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

    No, I'm sure they don't. And I guess we will all understand better when we have to become PhDs and write books no one will

  17. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

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

    I never said I did a BSN and didn't take research. I'm working on a BSN now. I should graduate in May 09 and right now I'm suffering through nursing research. I don't like it. A lot of it is...

  18. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

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

    Why do I have to take a bunch of extra classes to appreciate EBN practice? Also, I don't know many nurses who use that old line "we've always done it that way." Also, nursing practices are based on...

  19. glamouring resume to get high $$$ job.

    Jo Dirt replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    It screams

  20. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

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

    By reading it. I don't need a class on how to read and understand an article. I believe forcing research classes on people who are not going to work as a researcher is just another way to scarf money...

  21. Do you sign "RN' after your name OUTSIDE of the hospital?

    Jo Dirt replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    It probably makes people pity her more than anything else; her little life is so empty and narrow her whole self-worth and only claim to fame is being able to use those initials behind her name. I've...

  22. I did something that now makes me think I was acting like a druggie/doper/thief...

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, the night is hectic and all. I borrowed a nurse's keys to get into the room where the copier was and later that nurse couldn't find them. So, she says, "oh please tell me I didn't lose the keys,...

  23. Graduate School - B grades - allways required?

    Jo Dirt replied to mbtran321's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The funny thing I have noticed about these programs where B is passing, a lot of people make 70s on their tests, but somehow their overall grade is always a B. At least it seems that

  24. I did something that now makes me think I was acting like a druggie/doper/thief...

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

    Yes, she had left them on her medicine cart. She is really a good friend and a good person. She wasn't trying to accuse me of stealing anything, she was just desperate to find the keys (it was the end...

  25. What would you have done?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    At work (nursing home) we have this new dietary...I don't know exactly what her title is, but she oversees the dietary workers, but there is another dietician above her. Anyway, she seems to think she...