Can you believe this?

I'm currently working for a prison in SW Florida. At first things were good I was happy about going to work and then the changes started. Companies were coming and going so fast that we couldn't keep up...and now employees that have been around for 10 and 14 years are leaving. The medical department is understaffed and people are constantly calling off including myself. Well, my supervisor likes me...probably because she doesn't have to work when I'm on with her.

Case in point...the weekend before last I was called to come out on the compound to pick up an inmate that had fallen. The officer and I went out to get the inmate we didn't have a stretcher because it's broken so we had to use a rolling chair...and when he finally got back to the ER room the mans vitals were very low.

Get this...my supervisor starts medicating the diabetics...no assessment...she doesn't call me to do the diabetics, no she does them. So, I have to return to the infirmary for something and she's finished the diabetics and know she's smoking a cigarette...Now all the while the 6 am pill line is supposed to be in progress...and guess who's the pillline nurse? She finally calls the doctor for this inmate.

He's a 60 something year old who's apparently thrown himself down the stairs and broken his hip not to mention a few other things and his pain is off the chain...at this time our facility is using a designated hospital so he has to wait for the ambulance to arrive and of course it takes longer than usual. This inmate arrived in medical around 5:30 am and didn't leave the prison in route to the hospital until 7 am. I was off the next day, but my supervisor called me from work that night to tell me that the inmate died. I am still employed at this facility, but I 've cut my hours to 2 days per pay period...until I can find something better.