T -Dog

T -Dog has 11 years experience.

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1. Safety of Jail Rn with no deputys or guards?

   T -Dog replied to T -Dog's topic in Correctional

   It makes me feel like I'm not just being a big wussy when most of you, with more experience in a corrections setting than I, agree with me. The jail averages 70 inmates. I can't go through the chain of command because it was the captains idea, and he...

2. Safety of Jail Rn with no deputys or guards?

   T -Dog replied to T -Dog's topic in Correctional

   I wear scrubs so there is no doubt to anyone who sees me that I'm a nurse, not a deputy. I haven't had any jail standards training. Last week after doing sick call on an IM in the rec room I let the IM walk back to his cell by himself. I was later to...

3. Doctors office job..think I made a mistake...

   T -Dog replied to Marshall1's topic in Ambulatory

   It sounds like your time at work is boring, unproductive, unfullfilling, and not challenging in any way. If you haven't been a nurse for very long and you continue in your current job, your skills will still be there, but they will be a bit rusty. Yo...

4. Safety of Jail Rn with no deputys or guards?

   T -Dog posted a topic in Correctional

   I recently started work as an RN at a county jail. Due to budget problems the nurse has to make her med pass and do sick call alone; no deputys or anyone else present. This means I am passing meds by myself, locked in a cell block with as many as 10 ...