stephied

stephied

Surgery 27 years

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About stephied

stephied specializes in Surgery 27 years.


Looking for a new nursing focus

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  1. help with job transform

    Lilyzhou, Your shadow experience will be very helpful to give you an idea of what OR is really all about. Good luck to you!! Stephied
  2. Thanks to you both. It sounds like some inmates try to be very "creative" in their deception.
  3. Is this something you have ever witnessed? Who would you report it to? Could there be retaliation against you if you did report it?
  4. How much medication would you estimate inmates flush down the toilet in your facility? (a percentage)
  5. Does this apply to every inmate or just psych inmates? How do you check?
  6. Job interview Wed, Sept 23

    Chaoticdreams33, The Canyon College course was $950 for 5 college credit hours and it provides a certificate at the end of the course. I think the course was helpful. You can check it out at "Canyoncollege.edu" or google "Canyon College". It led me t...
  7. Strip searches?

    Thanks A New Start, I have see a few unusual metal objects in various places in my career as an OR nurse. I've also seen grown men and women cringe and cry at the sight of a needle but they have tattoos on their body. Go figure!!!
  8. Strip searches?

    Thanks DEYO321, That clarifies the terms.
  9. help with job transform

    I am always happy to see new nurses come to work in OR. We need young nurses to replace us oldies when we retire. I worked 8 years as Lpn- Med/Surg, Pediatrics. Then got my RN and went immediately to OR. 27 years later I'm still there. THe new RN's w...
  10. I'm not a corrections nurse YET, but I hope to be soon. I have not worked in ER either but I can see some similarities in both as you both have stated. There are differences too. My background is OR and I've seen the results of what harm people can d...
  11. We are trained our entire career as nurses to respond immediately so chance of survival is optimum but prison is a whole different ballgame. Safety for the patient but also SAFETY for everybody else too.
  12. Strip searches?

    Deyo321, Is an unclothed search different from a strip search or is unclothed a better term than strip? Or is there a clothed search? If there is , does the nurse have any involvement with it? Thanks
  13. Dress code in the observation cells?

    Thanks Jaila. You are so right about the ones who don't say or do anything to let others know they are suicidal. They have already made up their mind that life isn't worth living. I had a friend that seemed to be improving from her depression and wa...
  14. It sounds like nurses and security can observe the patient constantly. Can the patient also see out of his room to what is going on in the infirmary? Do they have a call button to summon nursing or security for any reason?
  15. Correctional/Nursing Associations

    Thanks Steristripqueen. I knew about the ACA and NCCHC but I hadn't found the corrections.com site. I have it bookmarked now.