sadie252

I work 3rd shift at a state prison. I am the only nurse there. We have about 2400 inmates. I am so busy I can't see straight most nights. We have lots of assaults, shortness or breath, chest pain, and sports injuries that never get reported until night shift for some odd reason. I have patient's housed in the infirmary as well. I have to do assessments on them, and I have to do day shift's assessments because they are "too busy." I also have to pass day shift's morning meds in the infirmary and pull and pass meds for the entire seg unit. I also have to prepare releases, transfers, out to courts, and stock. I am also assigned audits. We recently switched to computer charting. I have to go through old charts and key in medical history. I have to assist with morning insulin. Last week I had 6 patient's in the infirmary that required Qshift assessments. Two of them were on IV fluid. I had one patient with an extensive dressing change. There's stuff I am forgeting, but you get the point.

I would NEVER take a cell phone into the prison. At some prisons, it is grounds for termination. What if an inmate got your phone? He/she would have access to all of your personal phone numbers. If you have a smart phone, the inmate could possibly get your financial information. At my facility, not even the warden can bring in a cell phone. At my facilty, we get random pat downs. Why do you feel the need to take in your cell phone? I am sure you can make or receive emergency calls if needed.

My first nursing job was on a "medical" floor at a hospital. It was like taking the sickest nursing home patients and putting them on one floor. We had 36 beds and one or two aides. I would say our average age patient was about 70 or 75.

The $170 includes your permanent license too. I did not clarify that in my above post.

I live in Ohio and am also in the process of obtaining a Tennessee license. It is on the webiste. If you PM me, I'll send you the link. You mail in the application, and you can get a temporary permit (good for 6 months) to work on while they process your permanent one. It takes 4 to 6 weeks for the temporary license. You will need a passport photo and go to the nursys website and pay a $30 fee, so they can verify your Ohio license. You will not need your background check yet. They will mail you info on that later. It's not really clear on the application, but I called to verify it. I think the total cost including the permit fee and the $30 verification fee was $170.

I did google it, but from what I've read, there has only been 160 cases diagnosed in the United States in the last 100 years. I doubt I'll find too much. I had already found most of the links posted, but thanks so much to everyone who did post. I really appeciate it. I did watch the TLC videos. Thankfully, my nieces brain was not affected. She got so sick so fast. It really is unbelievable.

It's normal flora. We all have it. From my understanding, it lives in our mouths and intestinal tracts.

My niece was just diagnosed with it. She was in septic shock within days. She was on a vent for 6 days. She has responded well to the antibiotics. She has had some complications, but she is doing much better. The doctor believes the clot in her internal jugular vein has gotten bigger though.

Anyone familiar with Lemierre's disease? I know it's very rare. I have been researching it, but I have found limited information.

We just had 2 nurses and a CO get fired for having relationships and smuggling in drugs. I agree with the comment that small favors turn into bigger ones. I do NO favors and do not trust ANY inmate. I am not there to be a friend. Corrections is a different kind of nursing. If you have not worked it, you cannot understand.

Our inmates are free to shower when they want and have food available in the dorm all the time. They do have to go to chow at specific times (but are not required to go) and pick up meds that are dispensed by the nurse at specific times. They also can only be in the yard from 6:30am until 9pm. They have lots of freedom. This is not your typical prison where inmates are in cells. The ONLY ones in cells are the ones in seg. Most of them get 7 days in seg for fighting or getting caught with contraband. Seg is where our PC inmates go too.

Some of our prisoners who behave this way have 90 day sentences not 30 years. Our seg unit is not really the traditional seg unit. There are 2 inmates per cell. They intentionally wait until the nurse is passing meds and masturbate by the cuffport and the window. They have a shower in each room that has a small brick wall that provides some privacy if they wish to do it in private. They also put their Mediaography on the windows, so I have to look at it during med pass. I make them remove it, or I won't give them their meds. They flop their memberes right out the cuffport when I am placing their medication in their hands. From my experience, the inmates who have been in prison the longest are the best behaved. It's the ones fresh off the street that create chaos for everyone, including the other inmates.

I might seem a little harsh, but I think they have it WAY too easy. Our inmates get free cable with one TV to 2 inmates (flatscreens). They get pop, debbies, candy, free medical care, huge food portions, free gym, free college, a library, internet access, Media magazines, and the list goes on and on. Our prison has flowers and trees everywhere. We have a dog program, so there are dogs out in the yard for the inmates to play with. Our yard has multiple basketball courts. This place is more like a summer camp for children. They all think they are entitled to everything. They throw feces and urine on staff frequently. They steal from each other all the time, and groups of men will beat up an old man or a small man who can't fight back. Most of our offenders don't have life sentences since we are minimum security. These aren't people who have been locked up for many years.

I really don't see it that way at all. Many of these inmates are young and fresh off the street. Some get locked up in seg the first day they are in prison. I see it as more of the mob/riot mentality. One starts doing it, and the rest follow.

I can't believe I am reading this. What your wife and her fellow nurses experienced is what I experience every day. I work at a minimum security prison with dorm style housing except for our segregation unit. I am the seg nurse 99% of the time. There's not one day that I don't witness maturbation or memberes out the cuffport. Nothing is ever done. The response I get is, "They are already in seg. That's all we can do." Some of these men are my son's age. It's disgusting and should not be allowed. I am happy they won their case.