Jo Dirt

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  1. Do you need hospital experience to function as a NP?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm agonizing over accepting a job offer at a hospital or staying at the nursing home where I've worked for years. I mean it's kept me up at night. I can think of good reasons do or not do either one....

  2. New BSN, 6 months, no interview. How long before I hang it up?

    Jo Dirt replied to JaxNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    Check out Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were willing to give even me a

  3. New BSN, 6 months, no interview. How long before I hang it up?

    Jo Dirt replied to JaxNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    If you get desperate a nursing home is better than no job at all. And most nursing homes pay better than the

  4. Have you ever tried to leave but pressured to stay?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    The DON where I work is very soft spoken but I have a feeling he is actually a manipulator and control freak. I say this because I put in my notice and ever since he's been trying to get me to say I...

  5. Does LTAC count as critical care?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I've been hired on at a hospital that offers extended acute care. I will be taking critical care training and working with drips and ventilators and all that. Will it count as critical care experience...

  6. Got my foot stuck in the door...

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to get my foot in the door of a hospital, now it's stuck. The nursing home is begging me not to leave. It would be easier to stay, because that is what I know. I want to know what advantages...

  7. Does LTAC count as critical care?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Well....?

  8. FNP School Choices

    Jo Dirt replied to caitiecait's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm going through RODP (Regents Online Degree Program) in Tennessee for the FNP degree. The total cost will be about 15k, which is pretty

  9. Have you ever tried to leave but pressured to stay?

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

    I've never had any luck finding a PRN position. Anyway, I can't keep both jobs, they are in separate states. The CNO is understanding and told me to do what's best for me. Bob (the DON) has been...

  10. Have you ever tried to leave but pressured to stay?

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

    When I tried to give a 2 weeks notice and they told me I was obligated to give a 30 days notice, I wanted to tell them to notice my @$$ walking out the door. I told them I was bored and felt stagnant,...

  11. Have you ever tried to leave but pressured to stay?

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

    Thank you!!! If it wasn't for my toddler who would have such a hard time with my working the night shift, I would be out of there and wouldn't let the door hit my you-know-what on the way out. I...

  12. Is working as a new grad in nursing home a bad career move?

    Jo Dirt replied to nursedani08's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an RN and I've worked in a nursing home my entire nursing career (9 years) so I feel I can advise you to RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Once you get trapped in the nursing home it's like a roach motel!...

  13. Have you ever tried to leave but pressured to stay?

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

    I'm trying to figure out why they pressure people to stay. What are their

  14. Do you need hospital experience to function as a NP?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If I was going to be a FNP I think I would be happy to have a small clinic in a very rural area (maybe near an Amish community) and be that little place that could take care of your UTI or where the...

  15. They told me one pay rate, now trying to give me another.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever been hired on at a hospital and told your pay would be one thing, then later they try to give you something else? I was hired at $28/hr for the night shift, they just sent me an...

  16. To stay or go

    Jo Dirt replied to ggplease's topic in General Nursing

    I hear the travel jobs are kind of drying up because more nurses are holding onto their hospital jobs with the

  17. I am sure this is a silly question but I am truly curious.

    Jo Dirt replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a nursing home and there is a man who faithfully would come and feed his bedridden, nonverbal wife twice daily. He was such a lively person and one day he was telling me about how much him...

  18. Does LTAC count as critical care?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Why is the hospital wasting money to send their nurses through critical care and telemetry courses and all that junk if all they do is babysit vent patients and wipe butts? And are these DNR patients?...

  19. They told me one pay rate, now trying to give me another.

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

    If I was to back out of the deal now, would I be put on the do not hire list? I didn't go through any orientation, just an interview. I wonder if they would get upset. I'm having second

  20. Does LTAC count as critical care?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    So...it's like a nursing home, correct? If it's not med surg, or critical care, or acute care, it can only be comparable ro a nursing home,

  21. Barking up the wrong tree?

    Jo Dirt replied to 4amcoffee's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    That's what I'm taling about!!! To me, it's not hard to tell when someone is embellishing and turning up the drama and that really gets on my

  22. Barking up the wrong tree?

    Jo Dirt replied to 4amcoffee's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It's not the information I don't like, it's the way the information is presented. I like how NA students assume everyone interested in becoming a NA is doing so because they think it will let them...

  23. What do you do to cope with sleep cycles being all messed up

    Jo Dirt replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    I get grouchy and mean when I work the night shift. Feel terrible all the

  24. Got my foot stuck in the door...

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

    I just don't like how the DON is pressuring me to stay, and trying to butter me up with, "we don't just hire any old RN, you're the best we've got and the only one who doesn't mind working the floor."...

  25. Nursing School vs. Reality

    Jo Dirt replied to BeOne77's topic in General Nursing

    Wasn't that the original