KendraLipscombPoole

I work in a regional jail that usually has on the low side of 800 people. I absolutely love it! I came from a nursing home before and left because I was in a rut. Working at my jail, I do everything and it is never boring. I triage sick calls, I assess possible problems on new intakes, deal with assaults and people who have been sprayed with OC. We draw labs (which we didn't do at the nursing home), so EKG's. We don't have RN's on night shift so its just two LPN's and the MA. I feel so much safer there than I did at the nursing home. I always have an officer and we are protected, we are treated like gold by security and most inmates. We get some people who are rude but it is dealt with very swiftly. We work 14 hour shifts though so it's long shifts but I still love it

As I'm sure it is at most places, we are severely understaffed at my facility. There is a shortage of nurses a lot of places. And I was talking to one of my co-workers about why we thought it was so hard for nurses to come and work there. And I was told tonight while I was at work that most nurses do not go into the medical field to work in a jail, that they do not graduate from nursing school and say that they want to work in Corrections. And I understand that most people don't. I did. I had the goal of working in Corrections to help people there. So I'm curious about other people. Why did you get into working in Corrections? Was it the money? Was it a convenient job? Did you think that it would be interesting?