Jo Dirt

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  1. How Do You Do it FINANCIALLY?? Nervous about entering Nursing School!

    Jo Dirt replied to Sl1011's topic in General Nursing

    Since we don't believe in debt and there are so many of us on my one income of a little over 40K a year, we have had to learn to cut corners. I got through nursing school (ASN) with very little debt...

  2. NP working as RN

    Jo Dirt replied to love-d-OR's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I used to live in Missouri City. My brother-in-law moved to another state but keeps his address in TX for income tax purposes (he is a multi-multi millionaire--something I doubt I'll ever have to...

  3. NP working as RN

    Jo Dirt replied to love-d-OR's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I may be wrong, but "benefits" are not what leads me to a job, pay is. Money can buy these benefits. I hear people all the time say their pay stinks but they get good benefits...benefits, benefits,...

  4. How do I deal with a liar?

    Jo Dirt replied to learning2Bnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I know it's easy to get drawn into all the negativity, but I think it is probably a bigger deal to you than anyone else. There is way too many other concerns than gossip. That is all this is: pure...

  5. NICU/Neonatal Nurses: Please Help Me.

    Jo Dirt replied to BabyNurse_PJN's topic in General Nursing

    This is what keeps me from working in the NICU. On one hand, I would like to work with and help those sweet babies, but on the other, I don't know if I could handle the bad parts. I imagine when it is...

  6. Water Births?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I know of an old hippie midwife in my area(she even used to live on The Farm, in Summertown, TN) who swears by waterbirths. She had 11 kids and says she had the last three under water. She is kind...

  7. Vandy's Full Scholarship Program

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I went to see my advisor the other day, and at the university where I am getting a BSN, Vanderbilt advertises what they are calling a "full scholarship" to graduates of this university to pursue an...

  8. Is this realistic?

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

    I'm in a similar dilemma. I have four children but I want to have one or two more, and I'm getting old. I also want to be established in a good profession with plenty of flexibility, excellent pay and...

  9. Is the pay really that bad??

    Jo Dirt replied to myty23's topic in General Nursing

    I hear of nurses complaining about making 50k a year working a couple of shifts a week and this is what floors me. I'm an RN working at a nursing home 4 to 5 days a week and I don't make that much. I...

  10. Any psych NPs out there?

    Jo Dirt replied to RN007's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You don't have to be a licensed psychologist to provide therapy? Or, are you not talking about the same thing as counseling? I would love to do grief therapy, and this has made me torn between a NP...

  11. In your experience.......when a seemingly "stable" patient tells you they are

    Jo Dirt replied to JennRN65's topic in General Nursing

    A few weeks before my father-in-law died he told me he could feel the strong taste of death, and it was the same experience he had in

  12. 2.5 GPA for BA in English

    Jo Dirt replied to reformedlibrarian's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm sure they see this time and again and it is not uncommon for students to mature and do a lot better in their studies later in

  13. Hello from Tennessee!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to my3kidzmommie-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi. I'm in Tennessee as well (middle Tennessee). I also work at a nursing home.

  14. I think I'm being punished.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm the only floor RN at this nursing home. The ADON will work the floor from time to time but most always it is me. They have decided I need to be the one to start training new orientees. I would...

  15. I think I'm being punished.

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

    Thing is, the new trainees don't know how I feel. I laugh and act happy and accomodating and all, but inside I'm in total anxiety. I know someone has to do it, I would never take it out on them. I...

  16. I Quit!

    Jo Dirt replied to Super Nurse JoshuA's topic in General Nursing

    I would like to know where they are, please. I'm in the Middle Tennessee (Murfreesboro)

  17. Compliance nurse driving us CRAZY!!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They hired a nurse just to do chart audits at the nursing home where I work. She "writes us up" everytime there is a blank on the MARS someone forgot to sign or chart a blood pressure. I get so tired...

  18. Bedside Nurse, APN Preferred!

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Funny, just after I read a thread here predicting that one day NP's will have to be going back to the bedside because of the surplus of them, I went over to browse new job openings at some of the...

  19. Vandy's Full Scholarship Program

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

    I do qualify for a tribal card, too, I just don't want to be stuck on a

  20. Start up Home Health business

    Jo Dirt replied to Joe_Black's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    You'll need a CON (certificate of need) which costs LOTS of money. They do not give out new CON's, you have to purchase one. You need a fortune in start up money to start a HH

  21. NP working as RN

    Jo Dirt replied to love-d-OR's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The responses in this thread contradict the responses in other recent threads where most everyone said they enjoyed working normal hours, predictability and more money compared to the workload of...

  22. Vandy's Full Scholarship Program

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

    The school is MTSU in Murfreesboro. According to the ad on the bulleting board, it is called a...I forget the name, something like a Jane Allen full scholarship available only to MTSU graduates. This...

  23. Do you feel resentment when a pt. refuses to be seen by you?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I went to the gynecologist the other day and before I went in I noticed a new name under the doctor's name, with the initials NP. When I was in the waiting room the nurse came in and asked if it was...

  24. I Quit!

    Jo Dirt replied to Super Nurse JoshuA's topic in General Nursing

    I just hate to see it put everyone in a worse bind than they are already in. I would hate to be a patient and know the

  25. I yelled at another nurse.

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

    That's true. You're right about that. In retrospect, I would not have gone about it the way I did, but hindsight is perfect. I wrote the ADON a letter about what happened. I did not apologize but I...