riverlands

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1. I’ve hit a new low...

   riverlands replied to Mango Juice's topic in School

   Im a corrections nurse but I lurk in the school nurse forum, because there are SO_MANY_SIMILARITIES. This made me laugh. Because ice-pack-duty-making duty is real.

2. Profanity in the workplace

   riverlands replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Depends on the environment! I am in the County Jail. Too much professional language is not always appreciated in the trenches. If you dont joke and you dont swear, you might be a robot or a snitch. We know the patient is being over the top behavioral...

3. Seasoned nurses really affecting my self esteem as a newer nurse..need to vent?

   riverlands replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

   You can do what I do as a new(er) nurse (15 months): I play a game in my head called Flip It with crabby pants like this Lead Rn. I flip it around: whatever behavior they are doing to you: backstabbing, overly constructive criticism, checking your ch...

4. Why do you do it?

   riverlands replied to KendraLipscombPoole's topic in Correctional

   I took a corrections job because I had less than 1 year acute care experience and could not get hired in the hospital. But I totally love it in jail, although it is: tough, frustrating, and political, our provider relationships are wonderful and ever...

5. will i lose my licenses in corrections, jail, prison nursing?

   riverlands replied to wtpsych's topic in Correctional

   I think all jails, prisons and facilities are different. Im in County Jail and its not perfect. But it is safe. Man down, all the deputies are running for that cell. Backup called (fight) they are on it. Blatant disrespect to Medical staff, inmate of...

6. New Grad Age 60 Can't Land a Job

   riverlands replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Suggestions, yes!! Based on my personal experience...If you can get into an acute care new grad residency, take it. Your new graduate status has an expiration date of 6 to 9 months after which many hospital systems will not look at you without two ye...

7. New Grad Age 60 Can't Land a Job

   riverlands replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Hi Nurse Beth. Why did you phrase your response "sub acute, even Corrections?" As though Corrections nursing is the very last resort? Because that's what it sounds like you are trying to say. I'm a nurse in Corrections and proud of it. There is no nu...

8. Swastikas & Nursing | Refusing care based upon moral objection?

   riverlands replied to guest042302019's topic in General Nursing

   AndrewCraigRN: I am a Corrections nurse and my entire patient population is incarcerated. Way beyond some racist comments and a Swastika tattoo and the patient assuming I share their racist beliefs. My patients on one level or another, have been char...

9. Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

   riverlands replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

   work in jail. It's a MRSA syphilis tinea GC/CT party over here. We have people with MRSA abscessed draining areas all the time. Other than some gluteal cellulitis outbreaks I'm always surprised there aren't more skin infections. I glove and handwash...

10. New Nurse Tips: Reality Shock and Strategies to Adjust

    riverlands replied to Damion Jenkins's topic in New Nurse

    Im confused. Your very first job you were immediately charge nurse and your very first day of orientation you were given 15 total patients of your own with no preceptor?

11. Help me out here....

    riverlands replied to Aunt Slappy's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't the fluid draining from the chest tube coming from the pleural space between the lung and the lung cavity lining? So it's not coming from inside the actual lung itself. Which is where the TB bacteria would live. So I would think pleural fluid w...

12. Improving Assessment Skills

    riverlands replied to SaggieRN87's topic in Correctional

    OK so Ive been a jail nurse for 9 months now. Here are my tips I have learned: 1. are they on Bactrim or another sulfa drug, you might be seeing fixed drug eruptions...essentially an allergic reaction. I have seen this several times now as smallish b...

13. Catheter Came out. Should I reinsert it?

    riverlands replied to fergsu22's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing in the end: never perform a procedure without a physician's order. If the patient is not in danger or acute distress, waiting for an order might be the safest thing for the patient. If the patient was catheterized for maintene...

14. It wasn't funny

    riverlands replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    JC doesnt come to jail, oh darn. For Real Doe, I would sweetly call security and say there was a visitor playing tricks on staff members in the lobby and that I was concerned they were going to startle a little old lady and cause her to trip and fal...

15. New grad in need of some more advice

    riverlands replied to Sheika34's topic in NP Students

    Stick it out!!! You can do this. The preceptor with 7 patients plus charge is completely ridiculous. If you can survive orientation on a floor like that you can survive anywhere. I know i survived orientation on a cardiac tele stepdown hell floor. Ma...