Jo Dirt

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  1. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    Jo Dirt replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Show them you are willing to do whatever it takes. Kiss butt. It will say a lot for your

  2. liar liar

    Jo Dirt replied to MsKieshaRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is estimated that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath (taken from the book The Sociopath Next Door). One of the identifying characteristics of a sociopath (other than lying) are constant pleas for...

  3. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    Jo Dirt replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, I've seen several posts telling stressed out nurses to go into an area like home care...WHAT????? I just left a nightmare of a home health job! They thought they could start taking in 10...

  4. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Jo Dirt replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    oh

  5. Do you really hate your job?!?

    Jo Dirt replied to jrsmrs's topic in General Nursing

    Well, you will have people (newbies) who become miffed when anyone mentions any negatives about nursing and assumes burned out nurses don't realize there are negatives to any job, then you will have...

  6. Are there any dancing nurses out there?

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

    It would be a humorous sight to see a 5'2", 215 pound woman doing the ballroom dance...so no, I wouldn't dare. I don't really like dancing, anyway, not even to watch it. Belly dancing might be...

  7. Who will hire you at 5 months pregnant?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I've never been fired from a job before, and the people where I worked home health assured me I did NOTHING wrong, and the DON assured me I could ALWAYS count on her to write me a good letter of...

  8. i feel like quitting (long post)

    Jo Dirt replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    As long as unsatisfactory papers didn't mean dismissal from the program I would just take my licks and go on. But if it seems like she has singled you out and is trying to make an example out of you...

  9. Whats to Enjoy about Nursing?

    Jo Dirt replied to sissyboo's topic in General Nursing

    And you get to see previews of what's in store for you if you live long enough...crusty falling off toenails, thinning hair, rotten/no teeth, incontinence "briefs" (ha, ha, I've never had a patient...

  10. Do the office workers accuse the nurses of not doing their job where you work?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Home Health

    I don't know if it's just this agency, but there sure seems to be a lot of animosity toward the nurses by the office staff. There is one staff RN (me), one LPN, and the DON. We are trying to cover 11...

  11. Voluntary C-Sections?

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

    I know I'm a major whiner, but I just know the thought of my butt getting torn up again gives me the creeps. I'm not wanting a c-section because I'm some kind of spoiled princess who thinks because I...

  12. Whats to Enjoy about Nursing?

    Jo Dirt replied to sissyboo's topic in General Nursing

    I do it now strictly for the money. Sorry, but I can't fake that I do it because it means so much to make someone's day or to be told thank you (I can count the times that has happened in my six years...

  13. Voluntary C-Sections?

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

    Thanks for the info. I'm not yet 5 months pregnant but my stomach looks like I've got a basketball under my shirt, I'm terrified this kid will be huge. I'll go through a c-section before dealing with...

  14. Posters that are not nurses

    Jo Dirt replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    It's the worst in nursing school. I remember sitting in class and there were a few hens who would constantly comment on what they saw a nurse do during clinicals and what a horrible sloppy nurse that...

  15. HELP!! Neddlestick w/Hep C + patient

    Jo Dirt replied to melrina75's topic in General Nursing

    I tried to get mine to bleed but I couldn't, I ran my finger under the water and squeezed and squeezed but

  16. HELP!! Neddlestick w/Hep C + patient

    Jo Dirt replied to melrina75's topic in General Nursing

    I got a needle stick while giving an insuling shot in the home to a hepatitis C patient. She would cry out in pain if you even touched her and it would make you very nervous. The needle barely brushed...

  17. My First Delivery, Not A Good Experience

    Jo Dirt replied to nursebrandie28's topic in Emergency

    And people think mandatory sterilization is such a horrible

  18. Dementia patients not getting respect

    Jo Dirt replied to ejmonroe's topic in General Nursing

    It's pretty low to get satisfaction out of ridiculing a person because of his/her infirmity. These were probably the same kids who made fun of others in school who singled out children who were...

  19. Who will hire you at 5 months pregnant?

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

    The owner and rest of the uppers are in on it! They even flew to this agency from their out of state base and had a meeting about it! I feel like some kind of criminal but inherently I know I was...

  20. Who will hire you at 5 months pregnant?

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

    What is so funny is that I was at Books-A-Million the other night and in the New Age section I saw this "kit" complete with a doll, pins, and instruction manual that said, "Don't get mad, get...

  21. Who will hire you at 5 months pregnant?

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

    The "firing" had to do with a blood draw, a backstabbing LPN and a case manager who is refusing to authorize payment for any of the literally dozens of other labdraws I did on this patient unless...

  22. So you thought your ER experience was bad? - this is long but certainly ices the cake

    Jo Dirt replied to SK-222's topic in General Nursing

    My initial impression when I first started reading was that this was the rant of a narcissitic drama queen/king. Nonetheless, it really stinks they didn't see the person had more pain intervention...

  23. Culture Change In LTC?

    Jo Dirt replied to RN 4 Life's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's a nice fantasy, but reality is that it is not likely that such an unstructured enviornment would be feasable for these people at this point in their lives. Of course, they are adults, but the...

  24. My best friend didn't get in!!!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to ILWannabeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Come to Tennessee. I'm not a shining scholar and I got in LPN and RN school on my first try (no, when I applied to the RN school I had not been an LPN

  25. When staff accuse resident's of being racist?

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

    I don't care what kind of a nutjob the patient is, words can still hurt, and what is coming out of their mouths most likely has always been there. I wouldn't take it, and you shouldn't expect this CNA...