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Prison Nursing

I am debating about applying for a prison near my house as a new grad if my ER does not pick me up since that job may or may not happen now that the ER manager was fired/quit/mysteriously left. Does anyone have any experience with working in a prison?

In theory, I should be able to get the ER job since they told me they would post another position closer to my graduation but I am not going to hold my breath for a promise of a job that may not occur. My former aunt (by divorce) liked working in the prison. It would pay slightly better than what I would makie at the hospital plus it is full-time where as the hospital would be part-time only.

I am basically doing a lot of the skills including triage so I think someone would pick me up in some sort of role in the hospital. The charge nurses said they want to keep me too.

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    If you feel like prison nursing is something you could handle and enjoy and you feel like the pay is high enough to compensate for working in a prison then I say go for it.

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    In my area, the prison system pays better than the other hospitals. My aunt works in there and she said it was a lot better. Plus better vacation time and benefits than the hospital systems offer.

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    Sounds like you have a similar situation that is pretty common around where I live, do you take the good money and benefits at the state psychiatric hospital/prison system or do you work at a acute care hospital. The common concern that I would assess is do I want to lose my nursing skills such as IV stuff, catheters, NG tubes, dressing changes, etc. because in that kind of a job you will more than likely never use those skills, so just somethin to consider

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    Wow, type in prison nursing or correctional nursing in the google box. I just did and it lead me to a bunch of threads about correctional nurses in allnurses.com. After reading a bit in one thread, you have to have a lot of guts and be able to not take a lot of their insults personally and to keep them under control, I guess you have to be very tough to be there.

    I'm a recent graduate and I'm looking for jobs too, my last resort is prison nursing, but I don't think I could handle being insulted much.. ayayayay... Good luck!!!

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    You'd probably get paid more working in corrections as a new grad. Yes the inmates might be crude but they are nice to medical. If you need a job apply, you might be surprised & like it.

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