Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. Some parents amaze me

    Jo Dirt replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    All this talk here about how parents do not value their children and mistreat them, but such low value expressed for the role of parenting. First, society must value parenting and parents. I live...

  2. Rude remarks by doc with his own kids

    Jo Dirt replied to Lorie P.'s topic in General Nursing

    He needs to be more concerned with the butt on his

  3. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    There is a reality to the nursing home business that gets swept under the rug and a lot of people don't want to acknowledge: nursing homes are often dumping grounds for old unwanted people who have...

  4. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that I could think of a whole lot of other things I would rather do than nursing. A whole lot more. Two nurses I work with are in their 70's and can't make it on social insecurity so they are...

  5. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    You aren't peaching to the choir because there are evidently a lot of nurses who don't have a clue (btw, the ratio was 42:1 where I worked). A nurse can go in with the best of intentions, and most all...

  6. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    I apologize (and I sincerely mean that.) I understood what you meant, I just had a knee jerk reaction because that is something that has always drove me around the bend when I hear it. It just sounds...

  7. Do You Look Like A Nurse?

    Jo Dirt replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    That can seem like more than coincidence, but if you study cold reading it will not seem so

  8. Do You Look Like A Nurse?

    Jo Dirt replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    I look like the cleaning

  9. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    They aren't your CNAs. They are CNAs you work with. They don't work hard for you, they work hard for the patients. As for meds, the MAR sets nurses in LTC up for failure. Wait, I can't say that as a...

  10. A Generation of Wimps?

    Jo Dirt replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

    I'm a weiner. I can't help

  11. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    I will venture to say the ones with the strongest opinions on how to work the floor of a nursing home have little to no experience doing

  12. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    Are there only ten residents on your hall? I've been there. I know what it is like to work a floor with 42 patients who get meds around the clock. The only nurses who have lasted any length of time...

  13. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if they've been at it for 17 yrs. I doubt much is going to change with

  14. Do you think some schools are turning out nurses too fast?

    Jo Dirt replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    I think these schools are willy nilly churning nurses out by boatloads-- it's like a faucet and they don't know when to turn it

  15. How do I do this without hurting anyone?

    Jo Dirt replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    My father-in-law was (finally) diagnosed with a personality disorder about a year ago and this is what he does at the assisted care facility where he is staying. Fortunately the lady running the place...

  16. Gving all the meds all at once?

    Jo Dirt replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is important to learn the book way, but I also think the schools are doing a disservice to the students by not at least hinting that book world does not equal real world a lot of the time....

  17. How do I do this without hurting anyone?

    Jo Dirt replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had elderly pt.'s in home health who crave attention and would play for my sympathy. I would humor them a little bit but it would get old with me pretty quick and when they realized I wouldn't be...

  18. New & Ready To Move On To Bigger & Better

    Jo Dirt replied to NewGrad07's topic in General Nursing

    I understand EXACTLY how you feel. We are in a sucker's profession. Maybe we should get into

  19. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    For starters, show the numbers you gave us to a financial advisor and ask them about the wisdom of such a plan. My bank has one who comes in once a month to counsel clients. As for the work record,...

  20. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I can see no one is going to be able to reason with this young man, only time and life experience is going to be able to do that. AlwaysLearning, No one is trying to bring you down or rain on your...

  21. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I know our dreams and plans have a lot of grandeur when we are young. If a person was disciplined to the point of living on beenie weenies, riding a bicycle, shopping at yard sales, not going on...

  22. Can a DON make a real Difference?

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

    I don't believe the aide's are the problem, more like, will administration catch the caring fever? We have to face it: being an aide is a filthy, incredibly difficult, thankless job. Add to it 40+...

  23. Johnson & Johnson Nursing Commercial

    Jo Dirt replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what the new one is like, but if it's anything like the old ones I won't be able to stand it.

  24. Absolute No-No's

    Jo Dirt replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    Recently, a nurse highlighted PM meds on the MARS to help distinguish which meds were to be given on what shift. It caused confusion with a lot of nurses. I know I was looking for a DC order. We...

  25. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

    Jo Dirt replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    I was a loser CNA, then a loser LPN, now a loser