Jo Dirt

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  1. Andrea Yates R.N.

    Jo Dirt replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: This lynch mob mentality I see on here is very disturbing, especially among people who are supposedly health care professionals. Of all the illnesses to have, mental illness is about the...

  2. Andrea Yates R.N.

    Jo Dirt replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, come on...this woman is clearly stone crazy. No amount of hell on earth and fire and brimstone will change any of that. An unrational person cannot think rationally. She got to the point she...

  3. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    Jo Dirt replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    I heard a man talking about his "wang dang"...didn't need clarification for that one. A woman used to tell us not to forget to wash "goosey lucy"...no clarification needed for that one,

  4. corrections are driving me mad

    Jo Dirt replied to reddellrn's topic in Home Health

    Why are they being so harsh on your after only two months? I can't imagine what kind of bosses you have. Sounds like they need to be taken aside and be shown a thing or two. The new DON I work under...

  5. Career Change/Age Discrimination?

    Jo Dirt replied to youngheart's topic in General Nursing

    I thin the average salary for a CRNA is pretty well over 100 grand, wherever you

  6. BEST/WORST/least__ __online NP pgms?

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

    I know this is off topic, but would just like to mention that I am also pro-life and I took hormonal contraceptives to *get* pregnant! I took them for six months to shock my nonovulating body into...

  7. RN vs Ancillary Staff

    Jo Dirt replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    I believe that oxygen is considered a medication, but where I worked in LTC there were standing orders to apply O2 per nasal cannula to promote

  8. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    Jo Dirt replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

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  9. Negativity????!!!!!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to Hospice4me's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work now seems to have a healthy balance of optimism and just enough negativity to keep us feisty, but I've worked with people (women) I dreaded seeing come in the door because nothing came...

  10. will somone enlighten me?

    Jo Dirt replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    But you can't compare the level of work by the amount of time it takes. Even though a pharmacists education doesn't take much longer than a nurses, their level of education is much more

  11. corrections are driving me mad

    Jo Dirt replied to reddellrn's topic in Home Health

    I've been in HH since April 26, 06. Don't give up. When I first started it would take me HOURS to fill out an OASIS packet. Now I can get through one in about an hour most of the time. Paperwork is my...

  12. How do I break into school nursing?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in School

    I am in home health right now and it's not turning out to be what I hoped (I took a job with a company in a lot of turmoil and in danger of being shut down by the state, and that doesn't help) but...

  13. RN w/exp. w/? about HH

    Jo Dirt replied to Gorngi's topic in Home Health

    This is about the only job where I think it can be good to be salaried. The HH agency I work for is still fairly small, and some days there isn't a thing to do, other days I'm running until 10pm at...

  14. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Jo Dirt replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    My high school chemistry teacher would tell us he had a friend who was a mortician and would sometimes get people who would sit straight up on the stretcher as he was starting to embalm them. He...

  15. 'White' Crocs??

    Jo Dirt replied to ladybugsea's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Perhaps the nursing schools down here are more conservative. When I was in LPN school, they told us absolutely no clogs, when I was going to go to Baptist Hospital nursing school in Little Rock, AR,...

  16. Are you working the position you want?

    Jo Dirt replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Right now, I am doing what I want to do. I am wearing out my car but I'm not chained to one place all day and I can set my own schedule somewhat. But I feel like something is "wrong." Sometimes, it...

  17. What do you think????

    Jo Dirt replied to KellieNurse06's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man, if a patient is dying give them what they want! Of course, don't send them into a coma, but addiction in a dying person is the last thing to worry about. If I ever know I am dying I pray I...

  18. 'White' Crocs??

    Jo Dirt replied to ladybugsea's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Most nursing schools I know of do not allow the students to wear clogs (even with a

  19. Online AAS/ADN program for students who completed 50% clinicals and failed

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

    I don't think this applies if a person failed out of nursing

  20. will somone enlighten me?

    Jo Dirt replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    Yea, a new patient I admitted was boasting his 20 yr. old son had just signed on with UPS and would be making $24/hour. I'm making $22.50/hr. This

  21. will somone enlighten me?

    Jo Dirt replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    Just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you will be upper-middle class. There are plenty of highly educated people waiting tables. Truck drivers' salary *is* comparable to a nurses, and a...

  22. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    Jo Dirt replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am not capable of working the kind of hours it would take to get up to 100K. I get very depressed when I don't have ample downtime. That is why the home health job I am working is something I can...

  23. Residential Care Homes

    Jo Dirt replied to micheleg1's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Yes, you are essentially a landlord as well. I've got a big heart but I don't think I would have a lot of trouble seeing a nonpaying resident is "transferred" somewhere else. The more I look into it,...

  24. Question about my birth experience...

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

    Yea, that one got me, too. He,

  25. Want To Pursue BSN, but...

    Jo Dirt replied to thepremier's topic in General Nursing

    Part of caring about your child means seeing you can provide for them. I missed my children's toddler years because I was either working or going to school and I regret it. But I'm at least able to...