Tag: nursing home
member name: donna f.
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May 25, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
Living in a Nursing home is expensive. The average cost of Long Term care in The U.S. is enough to break all but the most prosperous of us. On average, a semi private room in a home today runs between . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
For-Profits versus Non-Profits
In my twenty three years as a Nursing Home Nurse, I have spent the majority of my time in non-profit facilities, working in one, and traveling to numerous others as an . . .
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April 19, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
I wrote and published this to Gather in March 2007. It is one of my first articles I ever published.
Every so often, every nurse gets a patient who touches her (or his) soul in an unforgettable . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Being a nurse, dying is part of my everyday life. I see death in many forms. Quick and unexpected, slow and lingering, peaceful, and agonizing. Recognizing the signs of impending death are a learned . . .
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May 16, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
I have to admit that this is not an original poem. I have read this to every Nursing Assistant class I have ever taught.
This was found among the meager belongings of an eighty nine year old, nursing . . .
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August 29, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
I am a pariah in my chosen field, Nursing. Do I care? Not a whit. In fact, I relish the role, and will tell anyone who asks why I chose to work in the dregs of the nursing profession, the (cue sinister . . .
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November 11, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Holidays in the nursing home can be a time of great joy, but YOU have to make it happen. No one wants to spend their holidays alone, with virtual strangers who are not their family. Unfortunately, . . .
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May 05, 2007 08:24 AM EDT --
Have you hugged your nurse today? If you have ever had a nurse show you compassion, explain away the fear, take a little more time, or "do it quickly", if thats what you needed, today is the . . .
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December 11, 2007 09:41 AM EST --
I'm doin' it, and its about damned time. Tomorrow I reenter the work force. I had been laid off in late July, and while I have enjoyed the time off, its time to get a real paycheck coming in again. . . .
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January 21, 2008 09:20 AM EST --
I found this little story in "ArcaMax Jokes" this morning, and unfortunately,I did not find it very funny. I found it more true than humerous. Please give it a read, and tell me what you think . . .
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September 14, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Dateline: 2027
Life in the Nursing home sure has changed a great deal since I first started writing this column, way back in aught six. For me, the most major change has been in the Nursing . . .
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September 20, 2008 11:15 AM EDT --
As some of you may remember, I spent last summer, the summer of 2007, that is, unemployed. The Nursing Home I had been working at closed due to being sold to a local University for the purpose of renovating . . .
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May 19, 2007 09:00 AM EDT --
Well, it is happening again. Do I have the luck or what?
There have been rumors, and so far, only rumors, that the nursing home where I work may be sold to the University down the street, . . .
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May 24, 2008 05:21 PM EDT --
I recieved the following information in my weekly CDC Clinician Update newsletter. The CDC has given me permission to utilize any information they send me to inform my Gather readers of important topics . . .
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June 04, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Who gets to say "When"? When is enough, enough? Personally, I want to make that choice for myself. I do not have any desire to have my life held in the balance by anyone other than myself.
What . . .
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October 11, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
"Hi Donna, Sorry to bother you on a Friday night, but Mr. Jones is freaking out. He is wandering into other people's rooms, and hollering about finding his platoon . I have already given him a . . .
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November 07, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
**This piece was originally posted last year, but I have tweaked it a bit
Holidays in the nursing home can be a time of great joy, but YOU have to make it happen. No one wants to spend their . . .
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September 12, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
I am having a hard time getting my mind around this one, folks, and I need your help.
In my almost 30 years as a nurse, I have some across some pretty interesting patients. I do my best to show empathy . . .
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October 18, 2008 08:48 AM EDT --
This is a story of love. True, honest-to-God, death- do-us-part-love. You know the kind of love I mean, the kind that we all hope to find one day, and that some never do.
This is the story . . .
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December 29, 2008 11:26 AM EST --
As many of you know, my job was eliminated last week due to "downsizing"(Merry Freakin' Christmas to me). Actually, it was eliminated because the new administrator wanted to hire her friend . . .
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