michwestRn

Well the positive thing is if you don't like where your at, you only have 13 weeks and you can move on.

I have done over 5 years of correctional nursing. I recently quit my correctional nursing for traveling correctional nursing. Each facility is run different. Correctional nursing is hard but rewarding in its own way. I left an very dysfunctional medical unit in New Haven Michigan . Most nurses who have experienced the prison I worked for would tell me that the prison I worked in was run very badly. This came from nurses who worked at different prisons and ended up at Detroit Prison for one reason or another We had nurses fighting with nurses on top of having to deal with the inmates . Its hard for me to work for someone I know that I don't have any respect for so after 2.7 years at this one prison I decided to move on . I look forward to the new prison that I will be working in I would not give up on corrections because of one bad apple

CMS. In my opinion, they aren't a good company The adminstrator treated you like a slave. We actually had one nurse get into people pay checks.. guess what that nurse is still working for CMS. The pay isnt worth the hassel you get from management. Our Jail went thru 72 nurses in one year.. She is known to be a liar even the police officers had very little respect for the moron. After working for this company for 2 years I had enough and left..

hello nurse i will be going to the site more often to see the out come. it almost appears that they are trying to file a class action law suit. this is the first that i actually seen something in writing about it. i had heard of many rumors but actually didn't believe it until tonight.

Recently I came across this web site : Question has anyone else heard of this? Gambro Da Vita Kidney Dialysis Machines Under Investigation: Lawyers are actively investigating claims of high fever and hospitalizations leading to serious illness or death associated with use of Gambro Da Vita Kidney Dialysis machines. Investigations of Gambro Da Vita dialysis machines are currently pending. Reports include mechanical problems including but not limited to the handling of bacteria by the machine's water treatment system and certain cleaning protocols. Have you or a loved one experienced high fever or been hospitalized within 48 hours of using a Gambro Da Vita dialysis machine? Amount At Issue: $$$ PENDING Stage: Filing

Regarding Divita, I watched today one patient who always sits in her chair until she stops bleeding, however, due to more patients, she was asked to sit in a w/c until the bleeding stopped to give her chair to another pt. This is a common practice at Divita. Divita, cares about one thing. MONEY. You have to asked yourself, why the non license tech's if it is such a speciality? ( I know the answer, and it comes right back to.... MONEY...) Divita, will not back you up in court, when it comes to giving out medications you didn't draw up. We all know, if you didn't draw it up you don't give it. Yet if your employed at Divita, the charge nurse draws up the medication and expects you to give it to the patients. Epogen is just one of many examples that is given on a daily basis. Each section has four patients, and each pct is busy when it comes to starting and taking off the patients.. its almost a race to watch some of them. I watch as pct put patients on and didn't even glove, Walk into the isolation room and not even wash their hands. Forget about infection control. One day I found a note on the floor, It said something to the effect of having a bomb. I took that note to the charge nurse. And she informed me that the facility manager knew about it and decided to ignore it. It wasn't uncommon for the one nurse for over 10 patients and one pct at night. This is very unsafe practice. We all know half of those patients, in clinics wouldn't be able to disconnect themselfs in a emergency. Some of them don't even have the strength it takes to clamp the tube's. If its only you and a one pct, god help all of you if a emergency should happen like a fire. In my opinion, Divita, is a law suit waiting to happen.