Ga_LPN

Hello all. I too am looking into correctional nursing and was just wondering why others are into it as well. I have been an Lpn for only a year but as I work on my RN I know LTC is really not where I want or need to spend the next few years. My ultimate goal is to become a travel nurse and I really want to start my career in a specialty even as an LPN. I was just wondering what it was that has drawn others into the correctional field and was it everything you thought it would be?

Again Thanks!! I am in the long term care facility of a major hospital. So i don't consider myself in the hospital. I am going to go for my associates . I ahve all my prereqs to do and then the bridge program but I will do it. I just got off the phone with a recruiter for the state prisons which have a great benefits package and tuition reimbursement so we will see where that goes. The manager where I am is the one that I believe removed the notes from that day and the next (1 sheet)and the DON is only 1 year there and not a strong allie. From what I have seen she doesn't like to rock the boat but she needs to rock something,last survey 30+ tags

Thank you antidote for the reply. I have only been there 2 months and suggested some things to improve the system but they are way stuck in their ways and very clicky. I have only been a nurse 1 year and the other facility had a great system I am sorry I moved here and am in this position now. They don't even count the narcotic cards only the pills and have alot of agency that comes through. i am afraid that one day someone may take a card of narcotics and the paper out of the book then its whoevers word they believe. I know the system as a whole is a great one but I am going back to school and until then I do think the best thing is to phase out before I lose my chance at a real future in the big hospital.

Hi everyone !!! I am soooo stuck I would appreciate any advice possible . I am sick to my stomach at the place I have chosen to work and I am scared for my license and reputation working with these people. I am working within a very large hospital in the long term care end(subacute)but we haqve way to many chiefs and absolutely no organization,teamwork or management. The scenario is ,I took care of another team of pts on 3/15 and noted in the chart and put in the Np book that one of the female residents had a fishy malodorous smell in her brief when changed. I also informed the unit manager who responded by querying about the residents shower the day before and saying she just needs a shower. mind you she is post CVA,Gtube,contracted and aphasic. She blew it off and now 1 month later the resident is peeing blood,fever 102.7 and here comes the kicker the note I wrote on the 15 is gone out of the chart. What do i do???????????