Corrections Nurse for a New Grad

[Jah Jah]

Hey y’all,

I’m a new grad and am interviewing and applying like crazy right now. I see an offer for a corrections nurse. Does anyone have any experience with this or any insight?

[Teejay323]

On 9/8/2021 at 1:18 PM, monylo32 said:

@teejay323 Yep Im still at RJD!  I really still do enjoy the job!! Corrections was a great choice for me.  I spoken to a lot of RNs that work here that came from the Hospital and they all wish they would have started here, only because the benefits are great and too your are not prone to get as burned out as you would with bedside nursing, both physically and mentally.   Im mostly in the Clinic, which can be busy but a good place to work.  Wow so your program was pushed back until next year?  Is it a community college or a private school?

It’s a community college, it’s was actually for psych tech because I’m a psych major and thoroughly enjoy it but I’m thinking of just switching to a private school and going straight to RN because the RN programs at the community colleges are equally impacted and delayed 

[Casta Erreape]

@monylo32 sorry to bother, but I was also gonna try to apply for the state in San Diego as a new grad, and on their exam to be on the eligibility list it says I can use my clinical experience as a student to answer their questions. It seems like they give you a few múltiple choice answers to choose from to show your experience which include 0-6 months, 6 months to 1 year, and so on, I was wondering if my clinical experience would be how long my nursing program lasted, or just the amount of hours that I did during clinicals which would place me on the 0-6 months experience?

[Dyson]

I know this is an old post but I am just curious if you decided to go into correction nursing, and if so how did you like it as a new grad?