BirdyOh

BirdyOh has 7 years experience.

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1. Sheriff Nurse

   BirdyOh replied to Marin2x's topic in Correctional

   Hello Sheriff Nurse, I work in a county jail and let me tell you, you need experience, experience, experience. Not sure who told you that you didn't need strong skills, they are flat out wrong. Correction nurses are basically the doctor and always ...

2. Violence in Prison? Are they common?

   BirdyOh replied to Marin2x's topic in Correctional

   I work in a jail/max security facility. I'm safer in the jail than I am driving TO it! Like another poster said, you can get called names, be shown body parts, also get marriage proposals. One threatened to rape me when he got out. Just throw those ...

3. Staffing ratio in county jails

   BirdyOh replied to amesly15's topic in Correctional

   I work in a county jail. We have approx. 600-700 inmates at any given time. Usually we have 2 nurses in the clinic and 1 to 2 in booking/intake. It can be crazy. You have 600-700 potential problems at any given time. I know that today's shift, lit...