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Correctional nurse for 18 years, all male psychiatric/behavioral setting

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  1. How much do you make?

    1. Registered Nurse in a Wisconsin State Prison (Male) that houses Inmates with Psychiatric and/or Behavioral Problems or are Convicted Sex Offenders. 2. RN with the State for 19 1/2 years. With the exception of a Brain depletion moment (where I ...
  2. It's not the Feds who are choosing to sit on their laurels about the nursing shortage.....it is also our State representatives who are not responding to our dilema. These people seem to forget just who "VOTED THEM TO OFFICE"!!! I would love to be a ...
  3. I Need Your Help

    The "other" area of corrections I work in is a medium security, all male, psychiatric treatment prison. We take care of all the medical and psychosocial needs of the inmates. The request to see Health serivces by way of submitting a written request...
  4. Thanks for the support!!! I need to hear from more nurses in the correctional field about this matter. I am going up against some "big politics" as the spokesperson for the nurses and I doooo want my ducks in a row. Ironically, I just received my ...
  5. Things to learn

    As an 18 year veteran RN in Correctional Nursing I whole-heartedly agree!!!!!!!! We must still be advocates for the healthcare of our "charges" but must do so consistently and without being taken advantage of by them. I have learned to be firm, fai...
  6. HELP!!!!!! I am an 18 year veteran RN in a State Prison for male offenders who also have a mental illness or behavioral problem. We are suffering a 25% vacancy and Management has come up with this "brainchild" of taking unit personnel (who are NOT ...
  7. My best of luck to you. I have briefly read a few replies and I agree. Team up with a "seasoned" veteran where you are going. I have worked with male offenders for over 17 years and the best advice I can give you is...be professional, look at the ...
  8. I work in an all male prison that houses men committed under a sexually violent offender law and also men who have psychiatric disorders. It has always been an unwritten practice that if a male inmate needs an assessment or care to his genital area ...