gaylarn4

gaylarn4

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About gaylarn4

gaylarn4 has 14 years experience and specializes in Psych/Corrections.


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  1. The Nightingale Pledge.

    I am 66 years old, have been on medical leave for my knee since September. I was tentatively okayed to return mid May. I have no serious medical issues except high BP. I work in an ICE detention facility. My children (all grown) love me and would pre...
  2. Where are all the nursing jobs?

    @neurogirl77- I moved from Illinois to CA to take my first correctional position,via a contract agency. (I lived in CA years ago and have grown children here.)It is a federal facility, one of the detention facilities where ICE and Border Patrol place...
  3. I want to quit first RN job after a few weeks.

    This is not where I would start as a new grad. That said, personally I wouldn't work in LTC at any time LOL! Unfortunately, with the way these facilities staff (actually, DON'T staff appropriately!), is IMO, unsafe and unsatisfying, if you are the ty...
  4. Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    I would never had participated-and I certainly would have obtained a lawyer. Let the job search begin!
  5. The Nursing Shortage: A self-inflicted wound?

    Absolutely agree with this!!!!
  6. What is the secret to getting along with custody?

    that's disgusting! I am trying to get into correctional nursing and hope I don't have to deal with losers like that!! I think I have read other posts that said certain types of corrections nursing are better to work at than others, but I don't rememb...
  7. Absolutely agree!!!!!!!!!! I think this is going to backfire on them (hosp admin) in the long run- they are basically taking the attention off of what nurses are supposed to do and making it even harder to do it well- staff cuts, goofy satisfaction ...
  8. Scared at new job in psychiatric hospital

    Fuzzy= Well that just proves my point-it's the people you really have to look out for!!!!! PS- I was making a general statement-I know that you deal with the "parents" of the pets which I have no doubt can be more exasperating/difficult than the anim...
  9. Area of hospital with minimal vomit...

    So did I!!! Especially the part about sucking it up............sorry!! I have a needle phobia and have gotten used to nurses that laugh at me so I have no room to make fun of others!
  10. Area of hospital with minimal vomit...

    :rotfl:
  11. Scared at new job in psychiatric hospital

    Oh he** no!!!!!!! I would rather work as a vet tech (prefer animals to peeps anyway LOL) !! I would probably be less fearful of the animals :)
  12. Scared at new job in psychiatric hospital

    Couldn't agree more-this is way too dangerous and NOT WORTH IT IMO!!! I am trying to get into corrections and may have a shot at it soon. I know jobs are hard to come by but I would rather go to North Dakota as an RN and really freeze my bum off rat...
  13. So unhappy, then a huge life change--is this a sign?

    You may need to talk to someone- your EAP is an option-it could help. So sorry about your mother. We all have different strengths in our "emotional constitution". Do what is best for you-talking to someone non-nursing might help to see things in a di...
  14. What's your weird quirk?

    Cleaning dentures :barf01:I do it without hardly looking-ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
  15. What's your weird quirk?

    I am a needle phobic RN-yep it's true!! I hate even the smell of the alcohol wipe and can get woozy:eek: I hate getting them for sure and giving them to others. I too am neurotic about getting in the right spot and when someone complained that it hur...