: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...
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...
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,
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...