Jo Dirt

Jo Dirt

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  1. I think I'm in big trouble

    I don't think what you did was wrong necessarily but then again, even if you refused to take the keys did that help with being short
  2. Old nurses dont want to learn new tricks?

    Sounds like the other way around to me. Give me an old timer over a new hot shot
  3. Sleeping techs

    Well...I am going to say this, right or wrong this is how I feel. It is extremely difficult to stay awake all night. For most, it disrupts their whole life, because the world operates during the day...
  4. New Grads that wear RN on badge before licensure

    Their nametags read "So-and-so, RN intern" at the local hospitals
  5. What nursing Managers fail to see

    I think this hit the nail on the head more than any other comment in this
  6. A day in the life of an RN

    Never expect to regularly work an 8 or 12 hour shift and go home. Expect to stay late and work double shifts because of
  7. What nursing Managers fail to see

    I would like to see a copy of this post sent to nurse managers
  8. How to deal with hiring prejudice

    I'm also facing hiring discrimination in my area, and it looks like I may enf up having to drive 70 miles to Nashville just to get a hospital job. From what I can see around these small town...
  9. On one of the private duty cases I work we have an 85 yr. old alzheimer's patient with insulin dependent diabetes, anemia and a spastic bladder. I have worked in this home off and on for a year. The...
  10. Plebian who wants to be tactful

    Ouch! This reminds me of the time when I worked in LTC and it somehow got reported to the DON that a CNA changed a resident's wet diaper without washing him. I remember hearing her screaming at this...
  11. The hospitals here start out RN's at $18.00. Pretty disappointing considering I make $17.00 as an
  12. I'm not getting called for an interview!!

    I'm kind of in the same situation. I'm tired of the private duty scene (among other things with this job) I've been with them over a year and want to get out. But after busting my butt to get through...
  13. Am I too conservative?

    If you're a prude I'm even more of one. I work with someone just like you describe, and it's downright embarrassing when I have to listen to the smut that comes out of her mouth. I don't know how to...
  14. Not cut out to be a nurse?

    Things still gross me out but thing is there's something different about seeing it at work and seeing it at
  15. Anterior Chest Percussion

    I started anew case yesterday with a 14 yr old boy who is immobile with a tracheostomy. He was terribly congested with thick phlegm that was hard for him to get up. After I gave him a breathing tx...
  16. stinking of cigarette smoke

    (I was being
  17. stinking of cigarette smoke

    but it's not hypocritical for a nurse who smokes to counsel patients on the health hazards of
  18. Learned something interesting in Nutrition

    I've learned not to necessarily believe everything I was taught, even if it was in a college textbook. Interesting theory, but I don't take it for the
  19. I recently took on a home case with a 49 yr. old woman recovering from knee surgery. I was really excited about it because it was just a few minutes from my house, compared to the 30 plus miles I...
  20. stinking of cigarette smoke

    this is a classic case of denial. we are not talking about fat nurses we are talking about nurses who reek of cigarettes, and it is not up for debate which is worse. give me a room full of fatties...
  21. stinking of cigarette smoke

    In one of the private duty cases I work one of the nurses has started smoking in the patient's home, even though this is a big no-no (the patient tells the nurses to smoke in her house--still supposed...
  22. 87 yr old new mother

    Are those the only two choices for the viewpoints on this? Because those are both lousy options. Just because there are children born to terrible younger parents doesn't mean that is justification for...
  23. IM Injection Question

    I don't believe I could ever feel comfortable giving an injection like that. That sounds
  24. online schools cheapen our profession?

    It seems like when someone has a controversial idea the people who come to "the rescue" are always new users and they usually have viewpoints that mirror the ideas of the person who introduced the...
  25. 87 yr old new mother

    66 y/o having a