Help! Need advice- prison job or desk job?

[christinacub]

Hi,

I interviewed with a correctional place...light sentencing...not hard core inmates. I was told that a quirk needed to be ironed out so I wasnt offered the job. Another company called me and offered me the job after a phone interview. The company does HEDIS review type jobs(going into DR office and hospitals and making sure claims match diseases in the chart). My husband thinks that the desk job is the way to go at $27/hr and mileage.

Meanwhile, the corrections called back today and said they could make the job offer....still don't know the amt...Im guessing similart.

So, I used to be a school nurse but feel like I need to get back into a clinical setting and the prison job is less acute than the hospital to get my feet wet. However, I have been told that I am too pretty to work in a prison and will never hear the end of it and will be bothered constant and it will get tough for me. I have also heard good things about working in the prison system.

I can't do both jobs because Im in school. The paper job is way less stress and intermittant. The jail job is shift work but lots of interesting diseases but lots of drugs and drunks to deal with as well. I feel like I am getting too far away clinically and want to move back into the clinical world.

The paper/desk job would be the easy way out. Im afraid I will regrett it later for I wont be using assessment skills or be doing any patient care.

Please advise me!!! Thankyou!!!