moongoddess1238

Hi. Hoping for some feedback on the best way to deal with this. I work in a psych hospital run by the depart. of corrections. Recently we have had an influx of patients to the unit I work on. While most of these are fine there are a few that I feel are not stable enough to be on this unit (minimum security). We have had them yell and scream at the nurses,refuse meds, knock over equipment on purpose, accuse the medical and correctional staff of poisoning them. We have one that reports hearing voices, he has no PRN's that I can give him and won't tell me what the voices are saying so I don't know if this makes him a threat or not. All in all very frustrating. I have gone the the treatment team and the unit directors as have the other nurses. They refuse to do anything, although they have asked the officers on numerous occasions to keep certain patients away form their room becausethey are intrusive and bothersome. I am almost at the point of asking to change units and have at times been scared that these patients might hurt me or someone else. Any thoughts on how to deal with this would be appreciated.

Hi I passed my boards in November and have been working in corrections since then. I love it but when I compare jobs with my friends the big differnce seems to be that most of the time I am alone. If I have a question about a med or someone goes bad quick Ihave a doc on the grounds 24/7 but it's going to take them a while to get there and the same thing with other nurses. That being said the population I deal with is more healthy (at least physically) than what I would find in a nursing home or hospital. The floor I work on is between 50-60 people who all get meds so the meds pass is a little heavy and the facility that I work in is for the mentally ill. So there is a new set of problems to take into account. I would definitely ask lots of questions and request a tour of the facility if possible. Not sure if this helps at all

Hi where I work we do the finger stick through the window ofthe nurses trap then we do the insulin the same way. there are some nurses that insist on using a treatment room for insulin but that is mostly for the medical unit (think prison meets nursing home). I wouldn't feel comfortable giving most of my inmates a syringe.