Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. Any Market for Handmade Scrubs?

    Jo Dirt replied to KentuckyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    People have asked me to sew for them before though I never did but I've often wondered the same thing: could I earn some extra money sewing? I've even thought of offering a service like custom wedding...

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

    Jo Dirt replied to krazy_coconuts's topic in General Nursing

    You know what I do when people criticize me? I listen to them. I don't get all puffed up and defensive and whine about being mistreated and abused. Whether we like it or not, there are things we...

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

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

    I don't generally say anything about it but if I get chatty with the nurse taking care of me it usually comes out one way or another. When I had my son almost four months ago the nurse taking care of...

  4. Uca

    Jo Dirt replied to missnida's topic in General Nursing

    I grew up in Conway and left when I turned 20. 12 years later I can't believe the change Conway has gone through and I don't necessarily think for the better. The town has been eaten alive with...

  5. The exhausting side of home care

    Jo Dirt replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did HH for 8 months and had to get out of it before I had a nervous breakdown. I was eating Tums and drinking Alka-Seltzer like crazy and on the road 7 days a week running the wheels off my car...

  6. Am I sensitive about the title Nurse?

    Jo Dirt replied to SaderNurse05's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if it doctor's are as annoyed when people call NP's and CRNA's

  7. Fired from longtime job, too much LOA r/t cancer, deaths in family. Not Fair.....

    Jo Dirt replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's a pain but it's the trade off for working for working for "the man." Logging is very dangerous and I took care of a 43 y/o man in a nursing home who was paralyzed from a logging accident. I know...

  8. Concerned about Daughter's Assignment

    Jo Dirt replied to imenid37's topic in General Nursing

    No, she won't get to choose her patients as a nurse but she is not a nurse yet and this is totally

  9. Hospital Workers Suspended for Peeking at George Clooney's Medical Info

    Jo Dirt replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    I used to wonder what the big deal with this guy was. I never thought he was all that. But that was before I saw this movie called Oh Brother where Art Thou? and realized, he's really

  10. Burnout

    Jo Dirt replied to paulla29's topic in General Nursing

    I know exactly how you feel. I realized when it got to the point I even started to resent the patients it was time to move on. But move on where? I'm still trying to figure that out for myself. I took...

  11. Highest paid nursing field?

    Jo Dirt replied to NoeIssa's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you there. I made it through ADN school paying as I went along with money I got from being a private duty LPN. I sure was glad not to owe anything. Right now, I'm working two nights a week...

  12. Dressing for Halloween?

    Jo Dirt replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    I think for those sick little children in peds it would be a great way to cheer them up but aside from doing it for the children I don't know what the point would be, really. And what would it look...

  13. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Jo Dirt replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    One of our old farms is very haunted. We've had ghost hunters out there and the Tennessean even called wanting to do a story about the

  14. "Pranic Healing" for healthcare providers

    Jo Dirt replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

    I think somebody is trying to find a way to make extra

  15. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Jo Dirt replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Too many people experience dreams,

  16. Drug testing question...not for me! :)

    Jo Dirt replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

    He may need to get the wax kit and a new bob. Maybe they will take hair

  17. Dressing for Halloween?

    Jo Dirt replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    My teacher in nursing school was talking about professionalism and mentioned this nurse doing compressions in a gorilla costume.

  18. Dressing for Halloween?

    Jo Dirt replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    I'm all for wearing what a person wants to wear but I think the Halloween deal is silly, not to mention over the years I've grown to really feel uncomfortable about celebrating and acknowledging a...

  19. Bariatric Surgery....years later

    Jo Dirt replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in General Nursing

    I have read about people having health problems develop years down the road because of malabsorption issues, I remember specifically one woman losing her

  20. Shots for nursing school

    Jo Dirt replied to nurseontheway's topic in General Nursing

    You know, those people answering the phones and filing admission papers and such. But about the choice or no choice, I think there has been some brainwashing going on through the years until there is...

  21. Advice for a FT working mom looking to change careers

    Jo Dirt replied to mamasangels02's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen and experienced enough (at least in the world of nursing) to know that if you want to do it you WILL find a way. Be prepared, though, because there are a lot of new habits you will have to...

  22. Anybody else work with a "super nurse?"

    Jo Dirt replied to Rapheal's topic in General Nursing

    Being inadequate is my life story. I know this one nurse in particular, very beautiful and smart, too, and I would die a little everytime I saw her because the differences between us were so obvious....

  23. How do you feel about the patients that WON't take care of themselves?

    Jo Dirt replied to diapason05's topic in General Nursing

    It gets me when people think the doctor will get mad at them for having to come in. What are they thinking??? Doctors love it when you come in, that's why your insurance card if the first thing they...

  24. husband begrudgingly supportive

    Jo Dirt replied to RN_Pursuit2b's topic in General Nursing

    This is by far the most sensible response I've read here. I'm appalled at how many people are jumping on the "dump him and fast" bandwagon. First of all, no matter how many red flags or insinuations...

  25. Now What?

    Jo Dirt replied to Medsport's topic in General Nursing

    If you don't get out of this cycle of living on credit cards it will catch up with you and eat you alive and all the dreams of a better life you would have with your nursing career will be flushed...