Correctional Nursing, or Nursing in Corrections

[OldMareLPN]

Ok, here is my BOM (***** or moan).

After a year nursing in a county jail, I am getting mad. All the other nursing staff seem to get off being nasty to inmates. Sure some of them push you, but I see them as patients, and me as their nurse. Others not only go out of their way to be nasty but then laugh about it afterwards with other nurses ..how they gave greif to a inmate.

Granted the push to run things using sick calls, and the great number of pills to pass out make time a short gift, but I think the answer to a inmates asking what are these should be information and teaching vs 'what the doctor wants you to take'.

Sure I am the last back in the pharmacy, but that just cuts down the amount of time I get to spend yacking with other nurses in the clinic.

Is this prevalent in this field. Is it me or do I just need to find a better environment.

Thanks for letting me splew.

[brookewoutzke]

You are not alone in this. I have been an LPN in the sedgwick county jail for two years and some attitudes from the nurses and the deputies are **** poor. I treat people how i would want to be treated. I just recently got my RN and moved from the medical side to the mental health side.

[RN Randy]

There's a saying about buying a flashlight to carry in the prison, and I always have to laugh when I see those super-size Maglites...

It goes:

'When choosing a flashlight, try to imagine what it will feel like as it goes up your a$$.'

Same goes for personality. Good advice is to imagine who around you is most likely to end up with a flashlight in their butt during the riot, and don't be like them.

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[JDCitizen]

It's not just prison its in the hospitals also...

I have seen inmates be nasty to nurses, nurses be nasty to inmates. Sometimes nasty is in the eye of the beholder and sometimes nasty is just that nasty.. Is this an answer not really but actually with the prison population being what it is and staffing being the way it is the battle will continue.

I myself think the term corrections should be removed from every prison in the United States.