texascowgirl

I have worked State facilities and privatized prisons/jails. I am curious about which privatized prison corporations yall have worked at, and your opinion. I worked for WCC (Wackenhut Corrections Corporation) and PHS ( Prison Health Services). At one...

I was going to take a travel job working in Shiprock NM in Navajo Nation in the ED.....but i cancelled out...always wondered what it would have been like. I think it would be a very interesting assignment. Maybe I might re-consider someday. Would lov...

i have seen it mentioned a few times. i have been an RN for 14 years and have NO CLUE! i am not a traveler so maybe it is a travel term?

I have never worked in a female prison, nor ever care to. I have heard too many horror stories about how bad they are compared to male prisons. So.........everyone, do you work in a female or male prison/jail? and i am curious to hear about what it's...

i cant believe NSO is not covering correctional health anymore! wow i guess litigation rates have increased alot! would it not be better to go WITHOUT malpractice insurance, which can make you a target? (that is, if you have no assets). when i work...

My dogs are now used to apartment living (having lived for past 4 months in an apt)....so just want to hear from yall who travel with your dogs-what are your experiences with housing and the travel to destinations? i have a pug and boston terrier-the...

OMG that's alot of volume for only 3 RN's! i work in a PACU where we have 6 RN's and 3 LVN's and 2 CNA's and our voume is anywhere from 15-25... oh and we have housekeepers. no patient bathrooms in the PACU. they have to wait until they are out of P...

we have our own little PACU-isms...things that we say on a daily basis, frequently, to kind of break the monotony and just simply make it FUN. here are some of my units. would love to hear what yall say! met criteria for dc from phase I: "i'm ready t...

no i would NOT recommend it to a new grad. i do believe that you need to have some ER or critical care background, and just some experience under your belt, because you need to develop critical thinking skills, which are honed once you actually go to...

yep i worked corrections in Texas and Georgia-in large maximum security prisons, as head nurse. i left to go work ER-started a small rural hospital to ease into it, then went to work for the military in ER. then a short stint working a VERY busy civi...

I am in Texas, former prison nurse (currently working ER) but going back into corrections.........this time state, not privatized prisons.

well in a grocery store, i think it is called jack mackerel...but in prison lingo it's simply jack mack. the inmates liked to mix it in their ramen.

jack mack.......a VERY common thing bought in the commissary. something i have never seen anyone buy or eat except when i have worked in the prison systems, but i know it exists outside of prison, cuz i have seen it on the grocery shelf ha ha! who el...

do you work a TDCJ unit or a privatized prison here in TX?

i want to add to my last post, alot of prison terms are GEOGRAPHICAL. i heard different terms in Georgia, than i had here in Texas, in prisons. when i watch AMERICAN JAIL or LOCKUP, i hear terms, sometimes, that are not familiar to me, though i can f...

the hole-usually refers to ad seg (solitary confinement) bullpen-possibly a term used in some states for "tanks" drunk tank-where people who are arrested and under the influence first go, in a county jail. disp-disposition? or maybe disciplinary? inc...

ODR-officers dining room UOF-use of force DR-disciplinary report

i developed a big time potty mouth, and though i hate to admit it, i started hating men (most of my waking hours were in prison seeing men act like animals, jacking in front of me and basically seeing the worst of humanity)...and i probably took it o...

i would NEVER work in a female prison. i did two weeks at a female detention center, as a contractor, and that was enough. much more difficult and more aggravating than dealing with males.

anyone else avid watchers of Inside America's Jails? and Lockup?

which state do you work in?

you need DVR or TiVo! then you can watch what you want, WHEN you want. i dont know how any nurse lives without it (unless ya dont watch tv)

what the hayull is a "FISH" unit?????????

you obviously have been in corrections for a long time! what you say is right on target. of course, there is the exceptional good relationship that might come out of dating an officer, but overall, what you say is so true.....

appalled to hear this. in Texas, we truly live by the slogan "DONT MESS WITH TEXAS"....i have worked in Texas as a head nurse of a prison and in other detention facilities and i assure you, inmates aint "coddled" and the CO's and rank have always bee...