Jo Dirt

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  1. Is the compensation worth it?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm the sole wage earner in my family. My RN salary is fair by a lot of standards but with a husband, three children (who eat like horses) and one due in 1.5 months...I don't see anything but tight...

  2. Im confused. HELP!

    Jo Dirt replied to kmlpn5's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I have an LPN friend who thought Rue, College Network, Chencellor's, etc. were affiliated with Excelsior College and it was required you sign up with them before Excelsior. This could not be further...

  3. CPNE to NCLEX wait time Excelsior

    Jo Dirt replied to Boston-RN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I passed the CPNE (which was my final requirement) at the beginning of January but could not get the ATT until my degree was conferred on the graduation date of March 17. However, things got rolling...

  4. What kind of error puts a license at risk?

    Jo Dirt replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well, not sure you would call this an "error" but one of my husband's relatives was an ADON at a nursing home. This nurse and the DON created a staffing agency and was hiring unlicensed people to care...

  5. Please help-Pregnant nurse caring for chemo patient

    Jo Dirt replied to Genista's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient in the nursing home on cytotec while I was pregnant and was told to double glove when handling her

  6. Is this normal part of aging process?

    Jo Dirt replied to passinthru's topic in General Nursing

    I deal with depression and I assume that is why I have zero energy, myself. Aging itself is pretty depressing,

  7. Dishonest Nurses

    Jo Dirt replied to Pam I Am RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Nothing runs me up the wall like people who put everyone else on such a tight moral budget but the funny thing is they always leave plenty of allowance for themselves. But I can think of several other...

  8. How well is your living status?

    Jo Dirt replied to NoeIssa's topic in General Nursing

    I have a disabled husband and three (soon to be four) children. We own our home (a dumpy old brick house but it is at least out in the country) and land but because there are so many of us we are...

  9. Dishonest Nurses

    Jo Dirt replied to Pam I Am RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think worrying over things like this is majoring in the minors. Most nurses I know are too busy with their own work to go back and check to see if so-and-so listened to each abdominal quadrant for...

  10. Reality in the LTC

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

    I worked with a nurse who did try to do everything by the book. She was very hard to try to orientate to the unit. When I would try to explain things everything turned into a big argument about how it...

  11. Reality in the LTC

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

    When I work in the nursing home I usually have 42 patients. And yes, you are expected to do treatments and meds and all that other stuff. Of course, you realize it isn't about "quality" care for the...

  12. Working at UAMS in Little Rock

    Jo Dirt replied to lucky4timesover's topic in General Nursing

    This hospital sounds far out. I have been wanting to come home to Conway for a long time. I think this would be a place I would check out, especially if they help with furthering your education...

  13. Expectations after your patient dies?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been taking care of a patient in private duty since Feb. '07. She died and the funeral is tomorrow. I don't believe in funerals. I don't want a funeral for myself when I die and I don't go to...

  14. Expectations after your patient dies?

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

    I do not like to look at dead bodies, I don't want to go to a viewing, I don't want to go to a memorial service. I prefer to remember people as they were when they were alive, even if they were frail...

  15. Is the compensation worth it?

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

    By then the kids will be grown and I'll be too old for it to matter anyway. That's usually the way the cookie crumbles,

  16. Abandonment???

    Jo Dirt replied to Happeetxn's topic in General Nursing

    There are a lot of micsonceptions about what constitutes patient abandonment. This nurse did not abandon the patient. It was a mistake, though a sloppy and potentially dangerous one. It also doesn't...

  17. I was fired!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to jnrsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I don't normally defend "the man" I don't know of many places who would wait on someone calling out for an extended period, especially with no doctor's excuse or confirmation of medical...

  18. I want to quit....

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

    That place doesn't sound like a hospital, sounds like a zoo. I don't know how far into the 2.5 yrs. you are, but that's a long time to suffer in misery like that. Likely, they made you sign a contract...

  19. moving to arkansas hoping for some info

    Jo Dirt replied to curlylocks29's topic in General Nursing

    Don't have anything helpful to add, just thought I'd mention my sister lives in Heber Springs, right close to Greer's Ferry Lake. You can see one of the inlets from her house. I've been there and it...

  20. ASN to BSN doees it exist?

    Jo Dirt replied to FocusRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The NCLEX is nothing to stress over. When I took mine I was given a brochure that said most people will pass. I've heard most who don't fail because of a language

  21. Vanderbilt NP program..help!

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

    I haven't graduated from Vanderbilt's program but I'm someone who considered it and decided against it (because of the cost). I even enrolled in a much cheaper BSN program so I at least would not be...

  22. Job at RISK, PLEASE HELP with ADVICE

    Jo Dirt replied to Lylesmom's topic in General Nursing

    To give you no raise is just so WRONG. If they value you so little now I can't see it getting any better. I'd take my purse and head for the door and keep stepping. You can do

  23. What makes the CPNE so hard?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I hear about many poor souls who spend $1500 only to fail this clinical test. What is scary is that they all say they worked very hard to prepare for it, took classes, went to workshops...so this has...

  24. Can you be called "Doctor" with a PhD in Nursing?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This has me curious. I would imagine you

  25. Private Duty Annoyances

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Private Duty

    She called in an hour and a half before the shift ended and it was the fourth time in a row she had done that. I DREAD this weekend...oh gee