Jo Dirt

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  1. I like to open an HHA

    Jo Dirt replied to maleRN2b_one's topic in Home Health

    If your state is like Tennessee, you can't just hang out a shingle and start up a HH agency. First, you will have to obtain a CON (Certificate of Need). You can't just go get one of these like you...

  2. Is it always better to die at home?

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

    SabbyNC, I would love to read what youare saying, but could you tone it down with the fonts...hurts my eyes! Maybe I'm a bad person, but I don't believe it should necessarily be whatever the patient...

  3. Eeeeeewwwww!

    Jo Dirt replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Even though that clearly breaks the rules of standard precautions, I doubt it does much to contribute to nosocomial infections as we would think. It is still gross. In fact, a lot of the old timers...

  4. Is it always better to die at home?

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

    These are the reasons I think I would choose to die in a

  5. is this abuse

    Jo Dirt replied to southernlady48's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Of course, you don't think you need to work in the trenches to have an opinion, which is why you are so defensive of your opinion. But you will not, cannot know what nurses go through with a lot of...

  6. "Hardened" Healthcare Providers

    Jo Dirt replied to cwinlv's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    They need some NEW coping methods. I woudl have gone further than you did. What a Jack

  7. The Cold Hard Facts?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've been involved in nursing (in some form or fashion) for 11 yrs.. Recently, we took in my elderly father-in-law. I believe I have "been around" when it comes to geriatrics and LTC. The more I look...

  8. is this abuse

    Jo Dirt replied to southernlady48's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    i think this law was written with the assumption common sense would be

  9. Shaken Baby

    Jo Dirt replied to royr's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't be civil to parents whose baby was brought in for

  10. if you've ever worked in food service...

    Jo Dirt replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

    You haven't met jerks and idiots until you've worked in the medical profession. So, you might end up like me, totally burned out and hoping to find something else. Right now, I'm experimenting with...

  11. The Cold Hard Facts?

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

    Why should and does the government pay for about 80% of the crap they pay for and to support people (illegals, foreign countries) and causes that are the true waste of tax dollars. Didn't these old...

  12. NP's are okay to see if you have a cold, BUT...

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I want to become a nurse practitioner. At least, I'm pretty sure I do. I can't say with 100% certainty but it is definitely something I am interested in. I think I would like having my own clinic...

  13. What? I can't put my mom in a nursing home!

    Jo Dirt replied to chuchie's topic in General Nursing

    I feel for you very much. Assisted living here in Tennessee is around $2600/monthly, but I understand California has a much higher cost of living. If she has medicare you could get home health...

  14. The Cold Hard Facts?

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

    Yes, it is. People have been so far removed from death they think life is worth holding onto at any cost. And you go to any nursing home and look at the miserable, contractured, incontinent, bedridden...

  15. The Cold Hard Facts?

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

    I feel for you, carol. I'm sure I'm going to be the most cold heartless b&^%* in the world for saying this, but you should not be obligated to carry this burden on your own. I'm sure it's easy for...

  16. Living off student loans smart idea or not?

    Jo Dirt replied to rkim525's topic in General Nursing

    You do not become prosperous by accumulating debt...of any kind. Someone will catch where I got this from, I'm sure, but these are words to live by: If you always live like the middle class, you will...

  17. is this abuse

    Jo Dirt replied to southernlady48's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You need to work in the trenches before you can truly have an opinion on this. And remember, the nurses in the nursing homes are doing what most families don't want to

  18. Living off student loans smart idea or not?

    Jo Dirt replied to rkim525's topic in General Nursing

    You're going to make 60-100k a year (in your first year) minus the OT doing

  19. Living off student loans smart idea or not?

    Jo Dirt replied to rkim525's topic in General Nursing

    Clee1 offered the best advice: if you are going to do it, use as little as possible. Pay now or pay later. Also, a degree does not mean you will get a good paying job. Of course, to be a nurse, you...

  20. Childbirth in Italy

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

    Be pessimistic all you want. I'm feeling pessimistic, too. He's 50, I'm 32, we've been together 12 years (even though we don't really like each other or even get along very well..I'm a nice person, he...

  21. Living off student loans smart idea or not?

    Jo Dirt replied to rkim525's topic in General Nursing

    Who wants to run up debt? Why would anyone feel content taking years or even decades to pay off a student loan? Student loans are not investments. Student loans are debts. How smart will it feel to...

  22. Water Births?

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

    I love water, and I like the thought of being able to submerge myself in a big warm tub and when out comes the baby they just pass it right to you. So the more I think about this the more I like the...

  23. Water Births?

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

    I can't help it! Squeezing that baby out is agony! I remember thrashing around on the bed when I had my home birth, and I would cry out I can't take anymore! The midwife is kind of a gruff sergeant...

  24. Water Births?

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

    My first one was at a hospital with an epidural but the epidural didn't help as much as I thought it would. My husband insisted I have the second one at home with a midwife and boy, I didn't want to...

  25. Thouroughly Disgusted......comments and suggstions please

    Jo Dirt replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    Leave her a little note telling her to take her histrionics