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  1. I’ve hit a new low...

    riverlands replied to Mango Juice's topic in School

    Im a corrections nurse but I lurk in the school nurse forum, because there are SO_MANY_SIMILARITIES. This made me laugh. Because ice-pack-duty-making duty is

  2. Profanity in the workplace

    riverlands replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on the environment! I am in the County Jail. Too much professional language is not always appreciated in the trenches. If you dont joke and you dont swear, you might be a robot or a snitch. We...

  3. Seasoned nurses really affecting my self esteem as a newer nurse..need to vent?

    riverlands replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    You can do what I do as a new(er) nurse (15 months): I play a game in my head called Flip It with crabby pants like this Lead Rn. I flip it around: whatever behavior they are doing to you:...

  4. Why do you do it?

    riverlands replied to KendraLipscombPoole's topic in Correctional

    I took a corrections job because I had less than 1 year acute care experience and could not get hired in the hospital. But I totally love it in jail, although it is: tough, frustrating, and political,...

  5. will i lose my licenses in corrections, jail, prison nursing?

    riverlands replied to wtpsych's topic in Correctional

    I think all jails, prisons and facilities are different. Im in County Jail and its not perfect. But it is safe. Man down, all the deputies are running for that cell. Backup called (fight) they are on...

  6. New Grad Age 60 Can't Land a Job

    riverlands replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Suggestions, yes!! Based on my personal experience...If you can get into an acute care new grad residency, take it. Your new graduate status has an expiration date of 6 to 9 months after which many...

  7. New Grad Age 60 Can't Land a Job

    riverlands replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Hi Nurse Beth. Why did you phrase your response "sub acute, even Corrections?" As though Corrections nursing is the very last resort? Because that's what it sounds like you are trying to say. I'm a...

  8. Swastikas & Nursing | Refusing care based upon moral objection?

    riverlands replied to guest042302019's topic in General Nursing

    AndrewCraigRN: I am a Corrections nurse and my entire patient population is incarcerated. Way beyond some racist comments and a Swastika tattoo and the patient assuming I share their racist beliefs....

  9. Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

    riverlands replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    work in jail. It's a MRSA syphilis tinea GC/CT party over here. We have people with MRSA abscessed draining areas all the time. Other than some gluteal cellulitis outbreaks I'm always surprised there...

  10. New Nurse Tips: Reality Shock and Strategies to Adjust

    riverlands replied to Damion Jenkins's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Im confused. Your very first job you were immediately charge nurse and your very first day of orientation you were given 15 total patients of your own with no

  11. Help me out here....

    riverlands replied to Aunt Slappy's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't the fluid draining from the chest tube coming from the pleural space between the lung and the lung cavity lining? So it's not coming from inside the actual lung itself. Which is where the TB...

  12. Improving Assessment Skills

    riverlands replied to SaggieRN87's topic in Correctional

    OK so Ive been a jail nurse for 9 months now. Here are my tips I have learned: 1. are they on Bactrim or another sulfa drug, you might be seeing fixed drug eruptions...essentially an allergic...

  13. Catheter Came out. Should I reinsert it?

    riverlands replied to fergsu22's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing in the end: never perform a procedure without a physician's order. If the patient is not in danger or acute distress, waiting for an order might be the safest thing for the...

  14. It wasn't funny

    riverlands replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    JC doesnt come to jail, oh darn. For Real Doe, I would sweetly call security and say there was a visitor playing tricks on staff members in the lobby and that I was concerned they were going to...

  15. New grad in need of some more advice

    riverlands replied to Sheika34's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Stick it out!!! You can do this. The preceptor with 7 patients plus charge is completely ridiculous. If you can survive orientation on a floor like that you can survive anywhere. I know i survived...

  16. It wasn't funny

    riverlands replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    That was super rude of that person, disrespectful and harassing. What if you had tripped and fallen. It sounds like someone was showing off. Would they have done that to a male administrator or staff...

  17. What do you hate about nursing and why?

    riverlands replied to ccorreces's topic in General Nursing

    Doctor fights (Cardiology VS Nephrology!!) Passive aggressive nurses That "what did I forget to do" feeling Patients that inject methamphetamine, but freak out when they have an ingrown toenail But...

  18. Stuck Between Two Job Offers: Maximum and Minimum Prisons

    riverlands replied to Nurse_Red00's topic in Correctional

    Congratulations on your new job in

  19. Patients & Pet Peeves

    riverlands replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Pet peeve...Patients who can eat a full meal with silverware, talk on the phone, walk unassisted, reposition in bed, operate their bed and remote control, but need staff to wash and examine their...

  20. Too ugly to be a nurse..?!?

    riverlands replied to RandomNurse2b1's topic in General Nursing

    The idea that an average nurse is a certain level of attractiveness is a stereotypical view, and one that we as professional nurses often work hard to eliminate. It is a myth. My suggestion is that...

  21. Absolute Exhaustion Tips?

    riverlands replied to Lilia777's topic in General Nursing

    I find that going outside and playing in the garden for 30 minutes a day is almost like a meditation. I walk around, look at my plants, water some plants, get a fly-by from my hummingbirds and I feel...

  22. Long hair at the bedside

    riverlands replied to kakamegamama's topic in General Nursing

    Mustache/crazy hair that sticks up/undyed roots...not an infection control issue and NGAF. Long pretty curler set, round-brush blow out hair, draped all down the nurses front and hanging in/on...

  23. Does anyone ever get tired of people thinking Nursing is easy?

    riverlands replied to Nsco2018's topic in General Nursing

    I dont give a....whether they think being a nurse or me being a nurse is easy or hard. They arent paying my rent. Its just jealousy usually, because we are bad ass and they know it, or they dont like...

  24. Nerves?

    riverlands replied to QuietIsntAWord's topic in General Nursing

    If you are a great stick but difficulty holding a direct draw needle and changing tubes, can you just use a butterfly, get a stick, hold the butterfly with one fingertip and pop tubes on and off the...

  25. Please help. Career over before it starts.

    riverlands replied to Emjked123's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Corrections! Im in jail...lol . Im either sitting or standing, rarely bending. Love it. We are an outpatient clinic/detox/psych hospital