Jo Dirt

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  1. Is it always better to die at home?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I recently lost two patients. One to cancer and the other to COPD. It was known they were dying, and still, they would be sent to the ER with exacerbation of symptoms and neither of my patients came...

  2. When they can't (or won't) walk anymore...

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

    Of course they will. But then when he's gone they come after you and your assets to make up for what they paid. We are in a state that recognizes filial responsibility laws, which says the child of an...

  3. When they can't (or won't) walk anymore...

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

    Yes he does. Funny thing, he started refusing to take his sinemet for about a month because the hallucinations were so disturbing, but when he started stiffening up really bad and said he wanted to...

  4. Filial Responsibility Laws

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Legal

    My 82 y/o father-in-law came to live with us this past August. he claimed he wanted out of the assisted living facility because the people there were getting on his nerves, food was bad, etc. etc....

  5. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    Jo Dirt replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats on your pregnancy. I'm four months along myself, and am looking forward to the day I can kiss nursing goodbye. It's a cut throat

  6. Do you ever wish people didn't know you were a nurse?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm just wanting to gripe a bit. I'm a very private person and don't make it a practice to broadcast info. about myself all over the place. I'm speaking specifically right now of going to the doctor....

  7. Does your work call you at 0530?

    Jo Dirt replied to MarySunshine's topic in General Nursing

    The nursing home where I used to work would block their number or else use someone's cell phone.

  8. Are all nurses that wear white dorks?

    Jo Dirt replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I know a male nurse who said when he had to wear all white at his job people thought he was with the asylum. As for the cartoons, I guess they are okay if you are on a pediatric ward, but it doesn't...

  9. 30 y/o paraplegic dying from decubitus ulcer...

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I can't even imagine the misery this patient lived with. I think there are things worse than death and I would not want to live my life paralyzed. But I don't think lawsuits will help anything,...

  10. Stressed out & Fuming

    Jo Dirt replied to BubbleRN's topic in Home Health

    I cover five counties and while it may not seem like I have a lot of patients (around 30) when they are 100 miles apart it gets to you. Plus, now they are marketing hot and heavy for new referrals....

  11. 30 y/o paraplegic dying from decubitus ulcer...

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    This man said he could only breath in one position, which was Fowler's. The SO said it took about three people to change him and when he had a BM he had to literally sit in it until she could get...

  12. 30 y/o paraplegic dying from decubitus ulcer...

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    They said three other HH agencies had been in before us and they weren't satisfied with any of them. Apparently, the doctor who agreed to take on his case had not seen him yet and was supposed to see...

  13. Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

    Jo Dirt replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

    I'm not sure what EMTALA is...but you could file it 10 or 11 yrs. later? Also, I still have my gallbladder, and I haven't had any serious trouble with it in years. I remember the nurse who saw me...

  14. Do you love your boss?(no, not in "that" way)

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't mean in that way. I mean in a caring way, like brotherly or sisterly love. I know there are a lot of bosses who can be tyrants, but my boss did something today that kind of makes me...

  15. Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

    Jo Dirt replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

    If you're jaundice and vomiting it seems like it would be. And how would he know, anyway? He never even laid eyes on me, and certainly didn't offer a referral to a surgeon. It was about 2am, and the...

  16. Anyone read "Listen to me Good"?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was reminded of this book by a woman named Margaret Smith I read about 11 yrs. ago. I got it from the library and as long as it has been that book still sticks in my mind. It was a very good book...

  17. Anyone read "Listen to me Good"?

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

    That was it! "Motherwit." I couldn't rememmber the title of the book so I tried to look it up on Amazon. But thanks! It has been so long, but I remember

  18. Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

    Jo Dirt replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

    I know what you are saying is true, but looks can also be deceiving. My sister is married to a multi-millionaire (won't say just how many times over, but will say he retired and sold his company for...

  19. Adoption option?

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

    I have to disagree and say this isn't necessarily true. My sister got pregnant when she was 16 and did all she could to hide it from my mother (father was deceased) but my mother had her suspicions...

  20. Deathbed visions

    Jo Dirt replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe hallucinations stemming from a guilty conscience? I read a book about an Afro-American Alabama midwife called, "Listen to me Good." She was describing being at her dying mother-in-law's side,...

  21. Had a mom flip out on me today...

    Jo Dirt replied to ItsyBitsySpider's topic in Pediatric

    I don't like to think I'm not cut out to be a parent, but I'm not exactly good at emergencies, especially when it involves my children. I'm the type to run out the door and start running around and...

  22. Missed certification visits.

    Jo Dirt replied to AmPmRnoncall's topic in Home Health

    We have two full-time RNs (well, the other one just quit...this is the third one we have gone through since I started with the agency in April of '06, I'm the only one who has hung around this long)....

  23. Deathbed visions

    Jo Dirt replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I did some reading up on this when my f-i-l was seeing dead people walking around his trailer and sitting on his couch. From what I found, CBS usually occurs when a patient is socially isolated and is...

  24. Eleven pound baby!

    Jo Dirt replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I read a book by a midwife in Alabama who delivered a baby who weighed 14 pounds. My first weighed 6 pds. 3 oz, and I screamed even with the epidural. My son weighed 8 pounds and I screamed then, too....

  25. Why dont we get respect as LTC nurses?

    Jo Dirt replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If we're struggling to survive we won't be concerned with bedtime stories. I'm sorry,