Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. Our teacher fudged our clinical hours let us go home and now I am out of school

    Jo Dirt replied to SaraLee's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I knew what to say to be helpful. The only thing I feel I can add that is relevant is that when I was in LPN school we had a teacher who was supposed to be giving us classroom instruction from...

  2. Hit all time low

    Jo Dirt replied to JentheRN05's topic in General Nursing

    I'll tell you, me & you have an awful lot in common. I've been battling depression since I was very young. And mania doesn't always manifest itself as an elevated mood, it can be anger or...

  3. Rich nurses?

    Jo Dirt replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, you sound just like me, only my husband earns zippety-doo-dah. Bright side is, I don't have to pay sitters most of the time. I know what it's like to have nothing to spare for any kind of...

  4. Incident report- retaliation

    Jo Dirt replied to ICRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how serious the medication error was (of course, they are all serious, but was this Reglan or Morphine?) but in the future (because I am going to assume it wasn't anything that would...

  5. Florence Nightengale Pledge.

    Jo Dirt replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    We just read it off a piece of paper at the pinning

  6. Can your license be revoked over assault?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    If you assault someone and it's not work related can or will they pull your nursing license? For example, a husband cheats on his wife so his wife (who is a nurse) hunts down his girlfriend, throws a...

  7. Rich nurses?

    Jo Dirt replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard people who don't work in the medical field complain nurse salaries are obscene. I feel like that caveman on the Geico commercial when his response to the woman's comments...

  8. "Did you report her?"

    Jo Dirt replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have reported a co-worker one time in my years of nursing for abusing patients. She would jerk them around roughly while barking orders at them and she would even leave bruises. The DON had said I...

  9. Can your license be revoked over assault?

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

    Well, maybe the girlfriend isn't a poor unsuspecting woman who thought she was going out with a man who was single, maybe she is unscrupulous to start with, maybe she is some recycled prostitute with...

  10. Is school still overwhelming if I don't work and have no kids at home?

    Jo Dirt replied to Toots71506's topic in General Nursing

    I knew a single 30ish mother with three children who managed to get through and I knew a young, childless, unencumbered 20something who couldn't hack it. Just depends on your motivation,...

  11. Words of Wisdom from fellow nurses

    Jo Dirt replied to Diahni's topic in General Nursing

    Get it before it

  12. Prayer and patient care.

    Jo Dirt replied to WhiteFlowerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I thought Parish Nurse mean they were from

  13. Prayer and patient care.

    Jo Dirt replied to WhiteFlowerRN's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds just like me. I had to accompany a patient to church recently on a private duty case. When I protested the supervisor said if I chose to wait until church services were over I had to dock...

  14. Nurses marrying doctors

    Jo Dirt replied to Cqc_Cqb's topic in General Nursing

    It's a pathetic little soul whose life's ambition is to marry a doctor. But from what I see out there those pathetic little souls are in good

  15. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    My father-in-law is getting on up there and this past summer has gotten into a deal where he will go to the ER every couple of weeks because he gets dizzy, has a fainting spell, his blood pressure...

  16. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    check it out. tennessee has broken the mold to see children of the elderly are

  17. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    Yea, we understood that unless he is incapaciated he is still in charge of his own decisions regarding his care and even if he had a DNR order he could verbally refute (is that the right word?) it....

  18. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    I've got two things to say about this: 1. Look up filial responsibility law. Children ARE responsible for the debts of their elderly parents. 2. It's easy to make assumptions and pass judgement on...

  19. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    Yes, the good ol' filial responsibility law, active in 31 states. It's war on the midde class. They have basically made it to where there will be no inheritance and no middle class, AEB the Deficit...

  20. Trying to relocate...cluelessly!

    Jo Dirt replied to superifficinscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you want to move to NY? They will tax you to

  21. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    Well, I guess you're right about the proxy deal. I'm glad I refused to be a part of that proxy. But a nursing home is out of the question because in this state WE are financially obligated to see that...

  22. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    The boarding home is basically assisted living. It isn't uncommon for him to have big-time personality conflicts with people and he has been in and out of several. We hope to God this place will work...

  23. Suggesting DNR orders to an 80+ year old.

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

    Yea, we understand how health care proxy works, that is why my husband told the ER no heroics, in case my FIL became incapacitated. With Lewy Body Disease, some days the person is as sharp as they...

  24. Did becoming a nurse change you????

    Jo Dirt replied to TruDivaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I want to tell you that becoming a nurse can destroy relationships, my husband out of the blue would accuse me of trying to be "the boss" and thinking I was high and mighty now that I was an RN (you'd...

  25. What disciplines make up the Rapid Response Team?

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

    That is what worries me. I'm afraid they might say I call them too much, or they will say, you called us up here for