JailHouseTeer

JailHouseTeer

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  1. Nurse as a patient...

    On one of my trips to the ER one of my past co-workers was working the ER and was my nurse. She was also doing orientation with a new nurse that was fresh out of nursing school. He and I both did not let her know at the time that I was a nurse becaus...
  2. 2nd Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

    I was only kidding about the duct tape. Please come back to your room.
  3. MRSA outbreak

    Its summer again and it will start all over 1. for those with draining boils shower daily 2. clean linens changed everday towels sheets clothes ect put in a disolving laundry bag 3. dressing changes need to be at least BID for draining wounds. Cle...
  4. Bunch of questions LPN in corrections..

    I kind of chuckled when I read the self defence course. Hun I have been doing this for 21 years now 20 of it in the trenches. I have worked just about every unit that we have in Arkansas and I would not work any place else! I no longer work in the tr...
  5. CMS and others

    I worked for CMS for 20 years and I just left to take a better job with the prison I was working in. Its only as good as the staff that are working there. We have some grat staff here and its no different that any others. I say alotof that too but yo...
  6. WOOO PIG SOOIE ARKANSAS Introductions!!

    Howdy from LA = Lower Arkansas! LPN since 1984- work in the prison system here with infection control program. LOVE IT drives me bonkers at times but........... fits the job!
  7. advice for becoming an infectious control nurse

    I have worked in infection control for 20 years now, but not in a hospital but in prison. It depends on what area of infection control that you want. I just started a new job with the states and I am now the Infection control/HIV Coordinator and so f...
  8. One more poll - a multiple choice question

    After just going through my new employee orientation I think and it may be gross, after getting over the initial shock, I would cover myself in feces and play crazy! Then hope for the best! Now don't misunderstand me I was in nursing for 20 years &a...
  9. PLEASE don't do it!

    Let me see where do I begin, 1. Nurse mets inmate she looses her job. He gets out, they get married. He cleans out her bank account, steals her car. She now has no job, no transportation and he has not been seen nor heard of since. 2. Medical record...
  10. I got a chance for a new job

    I put in for a job with the prison system its self : HIV coordinator and its a chance for a new experence in my nursing life. I hope that I am given the chance for it. It will be a real change from working the floor so to speak. Its a state job and i...
  11. I got a chance for a new job

    homicidial nurse what unit di u wok at in Delaware? I was just there helping get ready for audits that were comming up in December? How did it come out?
  12. I got a chance for a new job

    Thanks jamangel for the words of incouragement I am hoping that they come up on the pay some more I love doing what I do and I'm looking foward to this new stage of my nursing career. The head cheese has nothing but cofidence in me since he has known...
  13. Advice needed, take the leap into corrections??

    working in corrections is not for everyone, but I have learned so much and get to do things that I would not normally have gotten to do. I have been "in prison" little over 19 years and I love it.
  14. Looks a hinderance to being hired?

    Dear, looks at our place makes no difference. Most of us are old and warn out! lol.
  15. How many pts do you care for?

    it has its good days and its bad! Today was kinda quiet, but I really got tired of my name being called! (giggle) I advised all that I was changing my name and not going to tell them to what! My superviser just grinned. :uhoh21:
  16. Weapons in prison

    always expect the unexpectable. [bANANA][/bANANA]Some have nothing else better to do than think up stuff! [bANANA][/bANANA]:monkeydance:
  17. Corrections Nurses: Have You Been Hit Like This?

    I have had only 1 inmate in my 19 years attempt to jump on my and if it was not for the officer he might have made it. He was then transferred to another unit where he had a cast placed on his had and he later assulted a new inmate with it it was tra...
  18. If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?

    Honey, if by some strange chance i did win. I would pay off bills and continue my job, I love it! :monkeydance: :balloons:
  19. Gag Me, The Hospital's Food's Rank ! ! !

    You should try some of the prison food we get sometimes. LOL
  20. How many pts do you care for?

    I work in a medium security prison I just wish we had 16 patients a day. Its a tiny city with MD call 3-4 times a week not to mention chrinic care clinic, sick call, lab draw, little emergencies during the day, pill call and on most days there are on...
  21. WOOO PIG SOOIE ARKANSAS Introductions!!

    [color=darkorchid]cool where do u work? have you ever tried correctional medicine? would you be intrested in correctional medicine? i have done this for 17 years and i love it. i teach the computerized medical records system, do infection control at ...
  22. WOOO PIG SOOIE ARKANSAS Introductions!!

    [ color=darkred]hi my name is ann and i am practicing in the local prison system for the last 17yrs and i love it. its not every day that you get paid to tell men what to do for a change! lol. :rotfl:
  23. Male nurse kills 40 patients...what do you think?

    i agree he had no business taking those lives & i don't see where it makes any difference being male or female both sexes have done it in the name of "mercy" and its been plastered all over the news. wrong is wrong. killing is killing ! bei...
  24. Male nurse kills 40 patients...what do you think?

    Its not my choice to make if they want to end it all let them do it away from where I work. I have no problem with it that way. I am here to help them the best way that I can. I have had to work with death row when it was time for their excution and ...