Jo Dirt

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  1. Anyone Familiar with Extended Care Hospitals?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was just hired on at a hospital that has an extended care hospital. Basically, it is like an extension of the ICU. I was told there are cameras over each bed and experienced critical care nurses in...

  2. Anyone Familiar with Extended Care Hospitals?

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

    You don't know about the cameras??? The all knowing eye? Big Brother? And they can even measure the size of your pupils! Naturally, me and the LPN would be the ones out there like robots with the...

  3. Anyone Familiar with Extended Care Hospitals?

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

    What do you mean hold onto my

  4. Anyone Familiar with Extended Care Hospitals?

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

    No! You're supposed to tell me what a wonderful position I'm about to go into! Not that I was lead to my doom like a lamb at the slaughterhouse! You know what happened? When I talked to the recruiter...

  5. Tell all about Arkansas!

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

    this is funny. i'm a native of conway, which has a large black population. i'm white. my brother-in-law is black, very dark complexion, and my niece and nephew are mixed. i also have a mexican...

  6. Anyone Familiar with Extended Care Hospitals?

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

    What you're describing doesn't sound like what I'm talking about. There are doctors and RTs and plenty of nurses and such, though I'm sure it's no picnic, either. The extended care hospital is...

  7. Newly pregnant and working in stressful med/surg unit

    Jo Dirt replied to laRN1's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in my 20's I worked like a pack mule up until the night I delivered. We're getting to be old ladies. No way could I do this now. With you being up in age and especially with what might be a...

  8. I don't understand (school requirements.)

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Before I started nursing school back in 1997, I was forewarned that more people apply than can be accepted, it was extremely difficult to get in, etc.. This not only applied to baccalaureate programs...

  9. Nurses with spouses with chronic illness

    Jo Dirt replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My husband is 18 yrs. older than me but has always been very active and trim. He was into vitamins and healthy foods and such, and I'm the fat overweight one. One morning last spring he woke up and...

  10. I don't understand (school requirements.)

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

    I've applied at Centennial, Baptist, Vanderbilt, St. Thomas and UMC in Lebanon. The only one I heard back from was Baptist for a position on the renal floor 7p-7a. The recruiter was mistaken and...

  11. What is your opinon of the nursing shortage?

    Jo Dirt replied to SierraN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in my last semester of an RN to BSN program and we are talking about this topic as well. In middle Tennessee, there is no nursing shortage. Even the recruiters at the major Nashville hospitals...

  12. So, not everyone thinks highly of NPs.

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My 11 year old daughter is having a sleep study done tonight and my husband is staying with her. He called me to tell me she was hooked up and getting ready for bed and he mentioned he was talking to...

  13. excelsior graduates

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

    I understand why it could be reasoned the clinicals needed to be as difficult as they are for credibility purposes, but truthfully, it did not make me a better nurse. In fact, I felt like it took ten...

  14. excelsior graduates

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

    I'm an Excelsior ADN graduate. The clinicals are harder than they need to be. If you have the chance, go to an on-site

  15. Methodist Hospital in Dallas?

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

    Wow. Guess that settles it,

  16. Is there a high turnover on the renal floor?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I work in a nursing home. I love the patients and the people I work with, but they are cutting my hours because there are so many nurses. Anyway, I applied to every hospital in Nashville and only one...

  17. Cash Only Practice Ideas

    Jo Dirt replied to kiser56's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You all need to come to Altamont, TN to see the country doctor who takes cash only. His office visits+treatment/procedures+labwork+meds (which he mixes up in his office) costs $20-30. For the whole...

  18. Cash Only Practice Ideas

    Jo Dirt replied to kiser56's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    No matter how good of an idea it seems remember there are probably a lot of others who thought of the same thing and the big money that has its hand over it so there is no chance the little guy can...

  19. Residency programs for NP graduates?

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

    The school I'm going to has 750 hours of clinical

  20. CRNAs Looking Down on NPs

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

    I think I was wise to buy my Cobalt for $12,500 out the door, and it's bought and paid

  21. Lesbian L and D nurse

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

    That is like asking if it would be a problem for a heterosexual male to be a gynecologist, or a homosexual male to work in

  22. Any nurses use a Cpap or Bipap? I found this used one...

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've had sleep apnea for years, I went to a sleep study that confirmed it but never thought I could afford a cpap or bipap machine but my sleep apnea is getting worse. I actually found a place that...

  23. Renal floor to ICU; getting your foot in the door?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I applied to the renal floor of a large hospital (one of those areas that always seems to have a spot available) and think they will call me back for a second interview. I'm really interested in...

  24. CRNAs Looking Down on NPs

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

    I'm living proof a fat woman can comfortably fit into a (paid for) 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt loaded with A/C and SiriusXM radio system and this thing on the dash that tells

  25. I don't understand (school requirements.)

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

    Well, see, this is what I've heard my whole career from practical nursing programs to ASN programs to BSN programs to MSN programs. I heard the same kinds of dreadful statistics. If I had taken this...