Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. More questions about why you went into nursing!

    Jo Dirt replied to mtnbikeguera71's topic in General Nursing

    I needed a job paying more than minimum wage. Sometimes, I would choose minimum

  2. You won't beieve this

    Jo Dirt replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    These places take losing their patient's to another facility very personally and they are always wanting someone to blame for

  3. My First Write Up

    Jo Dirt replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the time I believe the bosses are too nitpicky for their own good but this is a pretty noticeable medication error. Warranted a good butt chewing but I'll bet you'll watch for things like that...

  4. It's long, dangerous, but worth typing, to me!

    Jo Dirt replied to missrose's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. She can give her opinion, but other people shouldn't? I read somewhere that when you love yourself you have learned to forgive your imperfections, but when you are vain you don't realize...

  5. So I'm fired. Again.

    Jo Dirt replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know it sounds sappy and such but I'll risk it because I believe it is true: when one door closes another one opens. I'm facing a career crisis myself. I understand how stressful it can be to try to...

  6. Cadbury pulling it's awful commercial!

    Jo Dirt replied to ebear's topic in General Nursing

    That J&J commercial...has a narrator talking about what a selfless and noble profession nursing is while it shows these actresses/nurses with hair dishevled bending sappily over some distraught...

  7. Beginning RN Salary in Louisiana

    Jo Dirt replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Cost of living must be mighty low because Tennessee cost of living is considered low and the base salaries start out a lot better than

  8. This year's New Grads.. How much did you start with?

    Jo Dirt replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Middle Tennessee is $18-28/hr depending on the hours and days you want to

  9. I got out of nursing and I've never been better!

    Jo Dirt replied to michelle*rn*'s topic in General Nursing

    I'm working my way out of it, too. So far, the only thing I've found I can do from home is medical transcription and I hear the pay sucks. But right now it's my only option and a good one compared to...

  10. Cadbury pulling it's awful commercial!

    Jo Dirt replied to ebear's topic in General Nursing

    Now, we need to work on that revolting Johnson & Johnson

  11. Reporting a nursing home for uncleanliness?

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

    How do I find and

  12. What does nursing school teach you?

    Jo Dirt replied to diapason05's topic in General Nursing

    I have a patient in private duty who has alzheimer's with a history of falls. I don't have to do nursing care plans there but if I did I might write as a diagnosis: Risk for falls r/t unsteady gait...

  13. Considering LTC

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

    A lot of times you will be doing the same thing the LPN's do, because the Indian positions have far more openings than the Chief positions. You'll get paid a little more, though. I'm finished with LTC...

  14. Some of our residents scare me. . . . .

    Jo Dirt replied to kcalohagirl's topic in General Nursing

    A doctor nearly killed my mother prescribing diuretics with no potassium. She would come to his office shaky and weak and he would send her home and tell her to keep taking her meds. After several...

  15. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

    Jo Dirt replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At the insistence of my husband I was going to have my daughter at home in our shack in the woods with no bathroom and barely electricity and running water but the labor didn't go as planned and I...

  16. It's long, dangerous, but worth typing, to me!

    Jo Dirt replied to missrose's topic in General Nursing

    I think I understand how you feel because I have felt the resentment and bitterness you describe only it was directed at a different (and I know, undeserving) aggregate: old people. Right or wrong...

  17. How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

    Jo Dirt replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Same

  18. How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

    Jo Dirt replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Zippety

  19. "Maybe you shouldn't be a nurse"

    Jo Dirt replied to krazy_coconuts's topic in General Nursing

    It's all well and good to be discerning just be sure there is some objectivity there too because our ego's can be very fragile, making the distinction between reality and denial hard to see. And for...

  20. Healthy women schedule C-sections to prevent vaginal stretching

    Jo Dirt replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was so small they wanted to do a c section but before they could get the OR ready the baby came out and I had a MAJOR episiotomy. I had a little stress incontinence and I found this gadget called a...

  21. Need to brush up on documentation...

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm wondering if anyone knows of some good websites that offer assessment and documentation guidelines for nurses. At my private duty job we are given some blank nurse's notes and a vague assessment...

  22. The exhausting side of home care

    Jo Dirt replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    You know what really stinks? I was out running the wheels off my car but to the office ladies/BOM/pencil pushers if you weren't in the office you weren't working. There was a lot of gossiping and...

  23. "Maybe you shouldn't be a nurse"

    Jo Dirt replied to krazy_coconuts's topic in General Nursing

    Why? Perhaps the teacher lacked in the diplomacy department but maybe the teacher was being honest as well. I don't believe it is right to look down on another with the intention of belittling them...

  24. A Father's Tears

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

    Regarding fathers and babies, yes they feel too. In nursing school I watched a c-section and the father was in the room. This was a big burly guy with tattoos and rough looking but you should have...

  25. Do you tell them you're a nurse?

    Jo Dirt replied to JulieRN07's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This reminds me when I had my rhinoplasty (which I regret more than anyone could ever know) but anyway, I had to spend the night at the hospital. I had this smart young nurse who acted like she'd...