Jo Dirt

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  1. Loved one soon to be passing

    Jo Dirt replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Older people don't look at dying the way younger people do, if she said she was ready I'm sure she meant it! She accomplished a lot just by making it to her 90's. I hope she goes peacefully and...

  2. Integrity in nursing (LTC)

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

    + I can't believe those inspectors can stand there with their clip boards and their glasses on the end of their noses thinking things are really done that way. How can they stand there with a...

  3. Integrity in nursing (LTC)

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

    I don't know, at the LTC facility where I work, there are some dedicated nurses who have been there 10 yrs. or longer. The exception is the main NOC nurse, who scored a 1 out of 5 on her yearly...

  4. Integrity in nursing (LTC)

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

    I'm sorry for what you're going through. It doesn't sound like those people need to be there. It would be nice to see some of the higher ups just come in one day and sweep all that trash right out the...

  5. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    Jo Dirt replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    If it was just me, I would stay. I love severe weather and I'm not scared of storms/tornadoes/hurricanes. I'm nutty enough you'd probably see me clinging to a light pole...on the other hand, my...

  6. Does what school you go for your FNP matter?

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

    I'd think having a "pedigree" over a regular degree might help you get your foot in the door, it might get you chosen over someone who went to a less prestegious (sp?) school but in the end I figure...

  7. Warning Signs

    Jo Dirt replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of hours before my 83 year old father-in-law (permanently) lost consciousness from a head injury from a fall, he was yelling "Mommy! Georgie!" (Mommy had been gone 20 yrs., George was his...

  8. Present at death

    Jo Dirt replied to chirstine's topic in General Nursing

    She was a DNR but the son was wishy-washy on what he felt like we should do for her. She died as the EMTs arrived with the stretcher to pick her

  9. Warning Signs

    Jo Dirt replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Mottling of the lower extremities, pooling of blood on backs of legs and buttocks are dead

  10. Present at death

    Jo Dirt replied to chirstine's topic in General Nursing

    Last Monday night we had a 96 y/o patient (eaten up with colon cancer) and the LPN was freaking out because the patient was not able to swallow and acted as though she had a stroke. This LPN felt we...

  11. How did you feel in NP school?

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

    I am in an online RN to BSN program that started last Monday. I'm taking 18 hrs. and I don't know what I was thinking. Getting back in the swing of school stinks. I am exhausted, feel like I'm getting...

  12. Mandatory Vaccines and the Law.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I got through LPN school, ASN school, and two jobs (one in a major hospital on the tele floor) declining the hepatitis B vaccine. Now, I am trying to arrange clinicals for the BSN program and the...

  13. Homework Questions (but not the "gimme the answer" kind.)

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In my professional role development class I am supposed to pick an area of nursing that interests me and interview someone in that area. I'm interested in NP's. Would someone humor me and allow me to...

  14. Homework Questions (but not the "gimme the answer" kind.)

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

    Well, it is an online RN to BSN

  15. Echo Heron

    Jo Dirt replied to Tippy-ta-ta's topic in General Nursing

    Her book about becoming a nurse made me

  16. Rx Writing Liberties

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There is this certain doctor at the nursing home and when he comes around it's like the pied piper--everyone (employees and family members, too) is following this doc around describing ailments and...

  17. Alzheimers is the worst

    Jo Dirt replied to hippylady7211's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Boy, that's the truth. I gave up on that a long time

  18. Ever give thorazine(chlorpromazine)IV?

    Jo Dirt replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

    My cousin takes this. It rotted her teeth out. I understand this is pretty serious stuff, but she has a pretty serious case of schizophrenia (violent type) and

  19. Alzheimers is the worst

    Jo Dirt replied to hippylady7211's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have a former DON on our unit with Alzheimer's. As lost as last year's Easter eggs... My nursing instructor told us that it may be hard for us to see our family slowly lose their mind, at first it...

  20. Hospital NP's=Same benefits as CRNAs?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I heard CRNA's get free medical care. Just wondered if things were the same for NP's in the

  21. CNA trying to hit me up for drugs.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    There is a CNA at the nursing home where I work who has been there a very long time. I've always gone out of my way to be friendly to the people I work with but I now understand why it is not a good...

  22. CNA trying to hit me up for drugs.

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

    My conscience is

  23. Hospital NP's=Same benefits as CRNAs?

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

    I don't "remember." I know I read it,

  24. should i feel guilty?

    Jo Dirt replied to purpil29's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking about this... I have a pretty good amount of net worth (I'm just cash poor), accumulated through years of putting money into real estate. My husband and me own close to a million...

  25. should i feel guilty?

    Jo Dirt replied to purpil29's topic in General Nursing

    Well guess what? I live like a pauper AND I still have to work! Being a SAHM isn't an option for me, no matter what! The houseboat princess only has those things because they belong to her dad....