Jo Dirt

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  1. how do you keep your sexy??

    Jo Dirt replied to healthcarefome's topic in General Nursing

    Past about college age, dressing in tight pants and short skirts with a bunch of make-up starts to get kind of pathetic. It screams I'm easy and haven't figured out what being a real adult is like. As...

  2. Working closely with PT and OT and ST...ever want to tell them to shut up?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    Since the nursing home where I work started doing rehab we have to share the facility with all kinds of therapists: PT, OT, ST, RT and all the helpers that go along with those departments. I imagine...

  3. Share Your "Brain" Sheet

    Jo Dirt replied to nurseJ88's topic in Cardiac

    I think it's one of those things you really have to figure out what works best for you. I work in a nursing home currently and the easiest thing for me has been to take a blank sheet of lineless...

  4. My stats that got me into anesthesia school

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

    Where are these warm and fuzzy

  5. Torn Between NP and CRNA

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

    Now wait a minute, I have four children (the second at home with a drill sergerant midwife who laughed when I would wail out in pain--don't want to do that again) and I was ever so grateful for the...

  6. Working closely with PT and OT and ST...ever want to tell them to shut up?

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

    Yes, most everyone so far has totally missed the

  7. horror stories--are they true?

    Jo Dirt replied to NPs4health's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm almost set to start school to become a FNP and I'm kind of worried myself. I've been having a lot of doubts. I want to help people. I thought I may be useful in a rural area, maybe near an Amish...

  8. Torn Between NP and CRNA

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

    The psychNP at the nursing home where I work is not very well thought of among some of the nurses, mainly the ADON. She says, he's pretty useless, he goes and asks them a few dumb questions and writes...

  9. considering switching Jobs...

    Jo Dirt replied to kele24's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you could tell them you would like a new

  10. Barking up the wrong tree?

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

    You sound JUST LIKE me! I used to fantasize about being a stay-at-home-mom and spending time with my children and having a garden and raising chickens and taking fun trips...but my husband is sorry...

  11. My stats that got me into anesthesia school

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

    This is my philosophy exactly. If I had listened to all the horror stories about nursing school I'd still be working as a CNA. I would have never become an LPN, an RN, a BSN. I would have never...

  12. Torn Between NP and CRNA

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

    I'm starting out with my BSN in a LTAC hospital. From what I am hearing, this will provide excellent preparation for the ICU. From the ICU, I would like to think I have a choice to go to CRNA school....

  13. My husband said something that got me to thinking.

    Jo Dirt replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    What stinks is that a lot of times it doesn't matter how far you extend yourself. They don't think anymore of you for jumping through hoops and working like a slave than if you don't do

  14. Excelsior Grad and Traveling Question

    Jo Dirt replied to mdewey626's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to Arkansas to work and I'm from Tennessee (both are compact states.) I called the Tennessee Board of Nursing and was told that as long as I have my primary residence in Tennessee I can work...

  15. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    NrsKaren's post and this short and to the point post was so helpful...not like those other post Thank

  16. Pharmacology Class: I'm going to brag on myself.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm in my last semester of an RN to BSN program through the local university. One of my courses is pharmacology and it is very hard. We have to pass a calculation exam to pass the course, the lowest...

  17. Stress related near breakdown

    Jo Dirt replied to inthesouthrn's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I worked HH for awhile and it affected me in a similar way. I work in a nursing home now and it's drudgery but I'd never ever go back to

  18. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    I know when I'm receiving a snarky answer. It reeked of snarkiness. If that was all they could muster up to say, they shouldn't have bothered. That other dude at least elaborated, though I'm not sure...

  19. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    I can't see where anyone took offense at anything. Please show

  20. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    Yea, well, if this doesn't describe sick patients I don't know what a sick patient is...this is how another poster described LTAC: working in a long term acute care hospital is challenging......I just...

  21. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    Thank you for such a compassionate

  22. Why hospitals wouldn't give a job to a new grad?

    Jo Dirt replied to I RN A's topic in General Nursing

    I'm having to do the same. From Nashville, Tennessee to Little Rock, Arkansas the only position I could find (RN I) was at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Actually, Baptist in Nashville called me...

  23. Why hospitals wouldn't give a job to a new grad?

    Jo Dirt replied to I RN A's topic in General Nursing

    I was told by HR at a large Nashville hospital the market for nurses is firming up. By this she meant that new grads are a dime a dozen and most of the openings are for experienced nurses in fields...

  24. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    Are "extended care" and LTAC the same

  25. Does LTAC count as critical care?

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

    I was under the impression that those in LTAC are basically the old people they don't want clogging up the ICU yet their families don't want to give up and make them DNRs so they dump them in LTAC....