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1. How long was your training prior to working in the prison?
I had a two-week orientation.
2. Do you feel the self defence course offered prepared you for attack?
Somewhat. No training can prepare you for every possible situation.
3. How would you react to being taken hostage?
The most important thing is to remain calm, and to try to establish a rapport with your captor.
4. Have you ever had to preform CPR inside the prison If so what happened?
I have used CPR in a life-and-death situation a number of times, but not in the prison setting.
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1. Three days with C.O. instructors--to go over "the way jail works and how to deal with prisoners". 3 weeks of orientation "on the floor".
2. Self defense as in physical self defense??? NO! We did have a week of intensive how not to get "conned" training.
3. During that week of "con" training we learned how we were supposed to react. I hope I never have to remember it!!!!
4. No, thank goodness.Of course inmates never "die" in prison, they die in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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1. How long was your training prior to working in the prison?
Four days.I am agency
2. Do you feel the self defence course offered prepared you for attack? None was offered but I took karate prior to working here.
3. How would you react to being taken hostage?Don't know.I might end up behind bars for the rest of my life.
4. Have you ever had to preform CPR inside the prison If so what happened? Yes all the time.Most don't make it out.Many are in bad health shape.
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1. How long was your training prior to working in the prison?
2. Do you feel the self defence course offered prepared you for attack?
3. How would you react to being taken hostage?
4. Have you ever had to preform CPR inside the prison If so what happened?
1. I don't even remember, but I do know it's been changed to like a one day a week, nine week course for new employees. Nurses are given about a one month nursing training before they are on their own.
2. Yeah, but it's nothing more than common sense.
3. Stay calm. Try to talk to them and see what the deal really is.
4. Not inside the prison, No.
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I work in a jail.
1. 4 hours of classroom, 4 shifts of orientation (I'm agency.)
2. What self-defense course?
3. I won't know until I am, and I doubt I ever will be.
4. Nope- had some unconscious people/ chest pain/ emergent situations, but never had anyone stop breathing.
We're correctional nurses too! :)