susan18

i started out as a secondary ed major, concentrating on french and spanish, as i thought i was going to become a foreign language teacher. my father (bless him) in 1973 said to me, "what are you going to do as a young wife and mother to support yours...

I work as a correctional nurse educator. We discourage verbal orders as well, unless there is a life-threatening event transpiring. We hand the doc the order sheet, smile, and say, "Please just write it". For telephone orders, the nurse is required t...

I agree with arciedee's reply to you. I wrote my personal statement in a similar format, and got accepted to my school right away. Let your heart show through, be sure you state your goals clearly as to why you want an advanced nursing degree, what y...

I am currently enrolled in Loyola Univ. of New Orleans' online Health Care Systems Management MSN curriculum, and I absolutely love it! I am a nurse educator for a large state correctional facility, and plan to teach after I graduate. I am also a Loy...

Reply to ORCA:You couldn't have said it better; I agree with you completely. I love correctional nursing, and find it challenging and rewarding.

Reply to ORCA: Our state prison also posts these appointment lists. We post all Med Clinic appts., all Dental Clinic appts., all sick call appointments in the dorm nursing stations ( have 4 units of these, plus seg, which we give the posting list onl...

Reply to WRCRN: My state prison uses Med Techs, but they are always CNA II's with 1 yr. experience, and we in DOC in our state have to train them through not only a 40-hr. course we administer (that I teach as a nurse educator to these Med techs) but...

I use online nurse websites all the time. I especially look for free offerings, and they are out there. The big drug company websites like Baxter also have free stuff that is not all about medication. I am a nurse educator, and I compile a "Continuin...

I agree completely with sjoe...our state facility works all the time to do things as best and as cost-effective as possible so as to avoid privatization, which we DO NO WANT for all the reasons above. We have a wonderful DON who is a visionary, and s...

We have an Infection Control nurse position in our state prison. The position works mostly with interviewing inmates who have been through a positive TB screen, or had a positive Mantoux test, or come in with a positive RPR from outside. The Infectio...

reply to serenaT: I am a nurse educator in the NC correctional system. I was an ICU nurse, with an ER subspecialty, for 28 yrs until my career change. I have been doing this educator/staff developer thing for a year now, and love it! Because I have a...

In Raleigh its mostly 12 hr shifts, 7 to 7, 3 one week, and 3 with an 8 the 2nd week. We have Baylor contract positions in some hospitals and float pool 8 and 12 hr shifts. I went into correctional nursing to get solid 8 hr shifts, which I could onl...

I remember having to wear my cap until about 1980. I was in ICU by then, and we all voted to not wear them, except on Nurses Week in May each yr. for fun. My cap is pretty traditional with one red velvet band across it. It reposes in a spot on the sh...

reply to ferfer- boy, do i remember these feelings! i was an lpn and a single mom, trying to work 3 12 hr night shifts per wk and get my bsn as a "generic" student, not rn completion. i felt like i lived, slept, breathed nursing. there were only tiny...

Our prison divided the sick call process up by dorms where the inmates live. We only have RNs do sick call. We schedule sick calls every 15 min. from about 0800 to 1300 with a 45 min. break somewhere between 1045-1130 so the RN can come up for air. T...

Orca: Loved those tips. I agree completely. I try to help my new nurses at our state prison with sharing things like this. You couldn't have said it better! Thanks....

reply to Blackcat 99: Yes, I do live and work in Raleigh. It is a great place to live. I say that because I spent years in Chicago with awful winter weather, and I do not like snow at all! And here I was raised in Pa., where we also get alot of cold ...

reply to Nurse Ratched: I started out as an ICU nurse, added ER to my specialty, worked as an Army nurse officer in the reserves, did 1 yr. of a specialty office practice, then looked for a new specialty that would enable me to work 8 hr. shifts, and...

reply to Honda: I work in a state prison for 1300 women. We have a nursing protocol book with standing orders signed by our state Medical Director. They range from GI meds, to cold remedies, to acne meds, hydrocortisone cream, miconazole vaginal crea...

Reply to sjoe: That book is great! I recommend it to al my new hires as a nurse educator in a large state prison for women. We do have to remember where we work, and that this group is not your community hospital patient,at all!- susan18 :)

Reply to nursecookie9503: County jails are alot different than state and federal prisons as far as women go. Have you any opportunity to try a larger prison job, like state or federal? I work in the largest prison in NC, which is all female, and we n...

In answer to Blackcat99: I am an ICU nurse of nearly 30 years. I left critical care 2 years ago to work in a maximum security state female prison, and I love it! I started as a staff RN, was promoted to lead RN, then 1 year ago accepted the nurse edu...