dansegypsy

I worked in UMass (ZooMass) Correctional Health Care. We we chronically short staffed, one RN & 2 LPNs for a 1500 bed male medium security facility. The comaraderie was tops as we were forced to stick together to survive. We had a lot of emergency calls that would set back our heavy scheduled med passes and clinics. UMass will not back you when something happens, and they seem to prefer to coddle the inmates in fear they will riot. Even some COs buy into this mentality and have not intervened to assist a nurse under attack. The load can stress anyone until they make a mistake, and then it is your fault. Administration will scapegoat a nurse in this ultra-liberal state. The inmates will demand and verbally abuse nurses using sexual metaphors openly on med rounds in the segregation unit. Places to avoid are MCI Shirley, MCI Cedar Junction (formerly Walpole State Prison), Framingham (female) and MCI Norfolk. If you must work there, make sure you have malpractice insurance paid up. If you can, run sreaming, as far away as you can. There are better jobs out there. Try the federal system. Good luck, stay safe and take care.

Better go to the administration and tell what you know. Both of you might become inmates if you don't. Inmates are manipulative social predators!