Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. Patients without insurance who self prescribe from livestock supply catalogues

    Jo Dirt replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    There is virtually no money to be made in farming today. You spend more in equipment and maintenance of a farm than you will

  2. Patients without insurance who self prescribe from livestock supply catalogues

    Jo Dirt replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I saw on the news where a 44 year-old woman with ovarian cancer was arbitrarily denied TennCare. Then, you have all these old people with children totally capable of providing their care and TennCare...

  3. Inappropriate sexuality...where to draw the line?

    Jo Dirt replied to Kunzieo's topic in General Nursing

    Laugh at him. What is he going to

  4. Appearance at work

    Jo Dirt replied to peds_cna's topic in General Nursing

    I'm meticulously clean but no matter what scrubs I wear I look slouchy. I keep my hair up in a

  5. Who's gonna admit it that they went into Nursing b/c of the salary?

    Jo Dirt replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    I'll just say if I didn't get paid I damn sure wouldn't come in to

  6. nurses working sick...

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

    OB and pediatrics is one area I think staff should absolutely not come in sick, otherwise I think a nurse should swallow some Dayquil and toughen

  7. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    I know there are families who only care about coming to see Mom or Dad when they know an incident report for a skin tear has been filed and they come looking to see if a lawyer can make a case out of...

  8. Outsourcing nursing home patients.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    Faced with the impossible financial burden of a US nursing home, more families are opting to send their family members who need nursing home care to foreign countries like Mexico and India. I'm just...

  9. Outsourcing nursing home patients.

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

    Good for

  10. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an RN making $18/hr. Crummy pay but good job for me now because it is so

  11. Having Trouble telling people I'm an LPN

    Jo Dirt replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    I know many people who became nurses as teenagers. I also have trouble explaining my degree to people. I really would rather not play the 20 questions but a lot of people are curious. It usually...

  12. Hit 'Enter' Key to make Paragraphs! (Then I can read your allnurses posts!)

    Jo Dirt replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Also, all the posts with bolded text--too hard on the eyes. And posts with too many slang terms ("coz" is the one I hate the most,

  13. Outsourcing nursing home patients.

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

    No

  14. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    As someone with years of experience in dealing with real estate I have to chime in and say that being in real estate is no way to earn money quickly. Those midnight infomercials selling fantasies of...

  15. Code Gone Wrong

    Jo Dirt replied to h20rn's topic in General Nursing

    I would hand in my notice along with why I was quitting and get a lawyer to see if you can keep from paying the $2500...you don't owe it as far as I'm

  16. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    THANK

  17. Outsourcing nursing home patients.

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

    The spoof was about outsourcing child care, the outsourcing of old people to overseas nursing homes is as real as a heart attack. We know because we have checked into sending my father-in-law to one...

  18. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know enough about what I'm doing to do that. I've got the money distributed among several low risk companies in what they call growth stock mutual funds. It just seems like I put money in but...

  19. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    My grandmother is proof that saving has to do with mindset, not income level. She wouldn't even buy a pair of shoes if they didn't come from a yard sale, and by the time she died she had consistently...

  20. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard that once you make the first million the second million is always

  21. Sue Facility For Broken Hip??

    Jo Dirt replied to jacesmom2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's not likely that he fell and then broke his hip. With old people it is much more likely their hip breaks and this is what causes them to fall. I seriously doubt the family would have a case in the...

  22. Holidays=Sad Residents,What would you say

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

    Holidays are depressing to me,

  23. A deeper view of long term care and paying it forward

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

    I dont think there is a one of us who doesn't stop and remember this ever so often. I've felt disgusted with them then will look at this decrepit old man and remember he used to be someone's baby boy,...

  24. Nurses that just "pass the buck".

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

    I was looking through turn and reposition sheet and noticed that Ms. so and so had been turned and respositioned religiously for two weeks in a row after she

  25. Nurses that just "pass the buck".

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

    It sounds like they got bogged down in the drudgery and just swiped that order over the scanner and sacked it up without even looking at it. I understand how that can happen, even if it doesn't make...