Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. 'Wanna finish the EC program in 6 months...is it possible?

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

    You only have the info literacy class left before the CPNE? If that is the case, you should be able to. If you still have to take the nursing concepts courses, there is no way, especially considering...

  2. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    Jo Dirt replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    (part of quote removed due to TOS violations)If you think that signing out and registering a different name will mean that this alter ego you are posting under now is the only one that will be banned...

  3. "YOU'RE my Nurse?!?!?"

    Jo Dirt replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's time to transition from the young girl to the working woman. Don't know if this applies to you, we can only assume here, but perhaps a shorter/more mature hairstyle, more conservative make up. I...

  4. Southern Nurses Please Help!

    Jo Dirt replied to AngelicLady's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in the Middle Tennessee area. Tennessee is as bad as Florida as far as development, and I'm very anti-development. They will keep on until there's nothing left to develop, just rows and rows of...

  5. Spouse adjustment problems? HELP!

    Jo Dirt replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    My spouse troubles over my career didn't start until I graduated and passed the boards. My husband, who is disabled, would say mockingly, oh well, now you're big shot RN, you can do what you want...na...

  6. Fraudulent Documentation

    Jo Dirt replied to CseMgr1's topic in Home Health

    My step-son (who is my age and who I have never met as he is estragned from his father from a very young age and only recently started talking to him again... he also lives 1,100 miles away) was the...

  7. help, i'm lousy at blood draws

    Jo Dirt replied to reddellrn's topic in Home Health

    I went to UMC lab in Lebanon, Tennessee and asked for a butterfly needle to do a blood draw on a person who was a very difficult stick. This snotty guy comes from the back and asks, do we normally...

  8. Fraudulent Documentation

    Jo Dirt replied to CseMgr1's topic in Home Health

    I am assuming your nurses are paid by the visit. We recently had a case in the private duty division where it was discovered that a nurse had not been coming in to work but had been signing in and...

  9. how much $ is too much

    Jo Dirt replied to PTU2SLP's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    If you are telling this to nurses, I think you are preaching to the choir. I don't know any nurse who would bemoan you making the money you make. I do, however, know that most lay people believe...

  10. Patient--Sexual Predator?

    Jo Dirt replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. You have to take the confession seriously. But it can get to the point where the police department is on a first name basis with the guy and everytime there is a murder or crime publicized...

  11. Immunization Reminders

    Jo Dirt replied to zenman's topic in School

    I think children are overvaccinated as it

  12. Patient--Sexual Predator?

    Jo Dirt replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    There is a mental disorder associated with this but I am not sure what it is called. Almost like Munchausen's Syndrome. I'm a true crime book junkie, and I have read about these people who show up at...

  13. Bradley Birth instructor equates nursing with 'maid service'

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

    Write her a letter telling her what a fool she

  14. Where is the office manager on the chain of command?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Home Health

    How much say so does she ultimately have in what I do? I'm getting tired of her remarks about us RN's. I didn't take this job to come in and do chart audits all day with my nose to the grindstone and...

  15. help i cant draw blood

    Jo Dirt replied to reddellrn's topic in Home Health

    redell don't feel bad, I'm in the same boat. Just this past week a fellow HH nurse had to drive out of his way to get a lab for me. He said he didn't mind (but I know he was telling a story). I have...

  16. I'm going to refuse to draw his blood.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm doing HH and have had the house from hell this week. The guys has a PICC line and was ordered to have daily gentamicin troughs drawn for one week. I know this is rambling but I'm losing sleep over...

  17. Critical moments in home health nursing

    Jo Dirt replied to cjblu's topic in Home Health

    I sure must be working with the wrong HH agency. This past week has been nothing but a nightmare. Had a patient discharged from the hospital with orders to draw his labs every morning and rush them to...

  18. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it (then I remember the nursing home)

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Home Health

    I checked. Nurses only are supposed to change the PICC line. But today sister complained to the agency and said she wanted another RN to come out because I caused her brother's PICC line to clog up so...

  19. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it (then I remember the nursing home)

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Home Health

    I'm at my wits end today. First of all, why does the hospital d/c patients who apparently are not stable enough to go home, much less send them home with these outrageously complicated orders on a...

  20. The past week has been awful...Vent

    Jo Dirt replied to beautifulb's topic in General Nursing

    You know, I'm a new grad RN and just started in home health. I thought this would be a low stress job (unlike the hospital) but it is turning out ot be a nightmare. They send me out to these houses to...

  21. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it (then I remember the nursing home)

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Home Health

    I hope the sister will do the dressing changes to the PICC line. The house is very old and dirty and even using sterile technique it's bound to be dirty. Don't want that liability. Tomorrow is the...

  22. Not enjoying the hospital

    Jo Dirt replied to ittybittybabynurse's topic in General Nursing

    It would be a life sentence if I had to work in a hospital. I'm a new grad RN and working in home health, though that has proven to be as stressful as a hospital job, but I absolutely can't take being...

  23. PICC line trouble

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a patient I am drawing daily labs on this week for gentamicin trough. The first couple of days it was really easy to get the blood out. The last two days it feels like there is a hydraulic lock...

  24. What if you can't hit a vein to draw blood?

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

    I finally got the other nurse to come help me draw the blood. Of course, he went into this woman's house and put on his southern charm, said "this must be the young lady we are getting the blood from...

  25. PICC line trouble

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

    The line has two ports and where I was able to get enough blood to test yesterday today nothing would come out of either port. The guy's sister acted like she didn't want me to stick him but after an...