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Hello everyone! I have a few concerns about the correctional facility I work at. First, the rns do not want to be bothered by me calling them concerning an inmates problem. If an inmate is complaining of chest pain the protocal in our facility is to have the inmate get an ekg. The rns are responsible to do this. Eventhough an inmate may have heart burn, the protocal is for the rn to do an ekg. The rns continuously push the lpns to restate in the encounter forms what the inmate actually states. For example... Inmate c/o chest pain. Rn says restate as chest discomfort to avoid the inmate causing the rn to do an ekg. I'm really sick of jeopardizing my liscense for their laziness. Are the rns like this at most correctional facilities? I work nights so it could be night shift rns. The day shift rns where I work don't have a problem with seeing an inmate. Maybe cause the don is still in the building. My second concern is the cleanliness at the jail. The inmates clean their own cells. This is not done on a regular basis. Toilets aren't clean regularly, floors are used from cell to cell with same mop water. The inmates are always getting skin infections. The inmates always think "spider bite", but rarely is one bitten by a spider. The inmates say we have the worst facility in florida. Some of you out there may know where I work. Anyways I'm just wandering does any facility out there gets sanitized. Well I guess I can post my other concerns later. Theres just too much to list. Thanks to all for reading.

I am a nursing student and I was SHOCKED when I read your statements.

Are inmates not human? As I said I am a student, therefore I have not witnessed what working as a nurse in a correctional facility is like but I am saddened to think that a nurse (who's job is to provide care to the best of her ability) would avoid giving someone medical attention based on the thought that the majority of inmates "fake it". This may even be true, but I think it should ALWAYS be investigated.

Sorry to be your eye opener but at least 50% of Inmates are probably one level below the human race.I know I'll catch some flack for this statement but "before you acuse, criticize and accuse,walk a mile in my shoes":stone
Sorry to be your eye opener but at least 50% of Inmates are probably one level below the human race.I know I'll catch some flack for this statement but "before you acuse, criticize and accuse,walk a mile in my shoes":stone

:chuckle You're absolutely right Dixiecup! Thanks for telling it like it is.

Sorry to be your eye opener but at least 50% of Inmates are probably one level below the human race.I know I'll catch some flack for this statement but "before you acuse, criticize and accuse,walk a mile in my shoes":stone

hehehe I didn't have the guts to say it here there are so many liberal minded persons who think the inmates need help to reform. LOL For those who don't know, the get a number when entered into the system. Each subsiquent (spelling...again?) entrance adds a letter to the number. Like 234567 first time in, then A234567 next time, then B234... and so on.

Three of us did physicals on these guys, probably averaged 100 a day. We hardly ever saw an inmate without a letter. These people are not, IMHO, worth the time of day, they are a huge drain on society and we just keep on supporting them between crimes!

Oh I best shut up now before I end up on the short end of the string around here again.

hello! technically i'm not even a nursing student yet, as i don't begin college until august. but, i have spent time as a patient in hospitals.... with "evil" nurses like many of those who posted to this thread. and while my experience is limited to personal and caring for injured, sick, and elderly grandparents and aunts.... i doubt that once i enter the real work force will my opinions change.

not to over generalize... it seems to me that many of the responders to this post are themselves complaining. if you see these patients, and yes.. the fact that they are criminals doesn't mean they aren't patients, as a "burden" and "sub human", etc... then why, why are you working in a prison?? if they are useless, then why not go work with people you deem far more worthy? like say, burns? or ER? i have encountered several nurses like the ones, and i don't mean all, that posted here. it's shocking, and sad. do the job you signed on to do. that is what i plan to do. honestly, judge not lest we be judged. and furthermore, the concept of a nurse is a person who is caring enough to handle patients. but the majority of what i see here is resentment. provide the health care. it is needed. a kind face may do a person some good for the long run..... but, yes. some poor people are beyond help and repair. but they are God's problem, not ours. so... just take care of them.

and... as far as clenliness goes... well. a prison should maintain the utmost sanitizing. i mean, close contact with any and every body. i mean they are still human. like what they did or not.... they deserve decency and not to live in filth. think of it this way.... if the inmates who live in the prison are getting sick for lack of adequate cleaning, what is happening to the medical staff that has to treat these patients on a daily basis? oh.... and as a tax payer (yeah, i'm 18 but when i sold AVON i still had to pay my taxes.... i am more than happy to pay the cost that may or may not save a life. why take the chance? sure, lower my dimes that's great... but not at the expence of someone's health care.)

Specializes in Geriatrics/Oncology/Psych/College Health.

This thread has circled the drain. It hardly casts correctional nurses in a favorable light. Closed.

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