cindyrn1

cindyrn1

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About cindyrn1

I am an RN, recently married with 3 beautiful kids. I have been unemployed for 7 months now.

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  1. Introductions

    hello! i too am from missouri and live in the central part. i am a full time psychiatric rn working inside the prison system. i am working at the only intake facility in the state for men. i use to work for the intake center for women but left the...
  2. Web site for federal prisons??/

    Who do you have to provide the Mental Health services in your prisons? We are privately contracted in the prison that I am with in Missouri. I was just wondering who provided your mental health services and how big that staff is? Do you have an RN...
  3. Hello to all! Those of you nurses who have your BSN or MSN, could you tell me about how long it will take me to get my license from an ADN? I have numerous college credits that I can use, but I am unsure as to what is going to be needed for me to f...
  4. Columbia MO RN Salaries

    merry christmas! i wanted to give you another option for your nursing career in missouri......cms in the prison system and forensic psych nursing at mid mo mental health or fulton state hospital. cms is desperate for nurses right now where i work a...
  5. If you haven't read it yet, you need to read "The Purpose Driven Life". I have found in my 40 years as a person, that our Lord and Savior is always there for us and always takes care of us. There are times when I pray for something that I don't end...
  6. Where do you nurse?

    I am the Mental Health RN at the Women's Prison in Missouri. There are two in the State and I work at the largest one. We have over 1800 inmates and over 800 of them have some kind of mental illness. I have been a Forensic Psych nurse for 8 years ...
  7. We use to have a male nurse that would take the cap off of the syringe and drag the needle down the concrete wall on the way to the patients room before giving the patient a shot. This way it would dull it and hurt worse going in!!!!! I never saw h...
  8. When I worked at a State Forensic Psych Hospital I knew an aide that got pregnant by a patient and she still works there. On another incident an aide was caught having sex with this same patient on the floor in the canteen but she called it rape and...
  9. Flu shots for inmates

    There is definetly something wrong with society! Our tax money pays for a lot of things for the incarcerated. You just wouldn't believe the kinds of things these people get! Seriously, I have so many of them that would rather be in prison than bac...
  10. CMS Anne Arundel

    Hello~ I just interviewed for a DON position with CMS and am wondering why this company has such a bad reputation? I would really appreciate your telling me the things that you know are wrong with it so that I can at least have a heads up before mak...
  11. Flu shots for inmates

    I too get very angry when I hear that offenders get the flu shots but individuals that have not committed a crime and need the shot cannot get it. I too think that when you mention chronic illness in the prison population there should be more detail...
  12. I have an LPN friend that desperately wants to go to RN school but can't due to finances. Does anyone have any ideas on how she can get the money and financial assistance to put her through school? She said that they take your last years income to ...
  13. I have an interview tomorrow for a DON of a huge Prison and I am wondering what the pay range is for a DON with CMS and what are some of the job duties that will be required in a job like this? I currently work in the prison system but I am the Ment...
  14. Day in the life of a Psych Nurse?

    I have been a psych RN for 15 years and have worked with every age from 2 to 99. I know for a fact that I would never want to be a social worker for the pure fact that I would be limited in what I could do for them. Right now I am a Mental Health R...
  15. Asperger's syndrome

    Hello! I am a Psych nurse and have specialized in this kind of nursing for almost 20 years. My son was diagnosed with ADHD before he even started kindergarten but only because I knew the signs and he had most of them by age 4!!! If it weren't for t...