PrisonrNurs

PrisonrNurs has 8 years experience.

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1. What should I ask the Board of Nursing?

   PrisonrNurs replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in General Nursing

   Our class met with the board today. It was interesting and honestly, I wish it could have been longer than an hour. Anyway, the meeting did go well. I imagine some of you were expecting me to make...

2. What should I ask the Board of Nursing?

   PrisonrNurs replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in General Nursing

   Well I am a student, returning to school after some time in the workforce. Let me clarify. Not all my information is second-hand. The BoN was in our facility to do an audit and were so incredibly...

3. What should I ask the Board of Nursing?

   PrisonrNurs posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone, It's been a while since I posted a thread on here, but I have an interesting situation. The Board of Nursing is coming to our class to discuss violations of the Nurse Practice Act....

4. Nurses sued!!!!!

   PrisonrNurs replied to mina123's topic in General Nursing

   Hey Mina, Believe me, you need to worry about being sued! It can be for anything and everything, and no where in my opinion, is this worse than correctional nursing. I've been a correctional nurse...

5. What's you highest...?

   PrisonrNurs replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   OK, here's my third reply. Had an inmate who never exercised try to do 300 squats. Could only do 150. Complained to the nurse that his pee looked like coke. Rushed to the ER where I was working...

6. Best Corrections Trauma Story and/or "Man Down" Story

   PrisonrNurs replied to EnigmaticParadigm's topic in Correctional

   Among my favorites: Had one inmate upset that his legs were infected. Indeed, they were red, mottled, skin cracked and bleeding. Not an infection though because it ended abruptly at his waistline....

7. Gender Bias & Discrimination from the Board of Nursing?!?!

   PrisonrNurs replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in Men in Nursing

   Thanks for your insightful reply Steve! You're right, yet it's just so unfair. In my case, the board ignored evidence that would have exonerated me. An investigation into the matter showed that...

8. Gender Bias & Discrimination from the Board of Nursing?!?!

   PrisonrNurs replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in Men in Nursing

   Read the title. I'm not mad at the nurse. Actually, I miss her dearly. What I am so angry about is that she got by with a slap on the wrist and I had to go through such a harrowing ordeal with the...

9. Gender Bias & Discrimination from the Board of Nursing?!?!

   PrisonrNurs posted a topic in Men in Nursing

   Hello everyone, I wanted to get your advice on something. A while ago I was reported to the BoN (see my other threads) which turned out to be a nasty, evil mess. I have since then successfully...

10. When your supervisor is incompetent.....

    PrisonrNurs posted a topic in General Nursing

    I love my job as a prison nurse, but by far the most difficult thing to deal with is not the danger from inmates, but my supervisor. Her incompetence as an administrator is so evident that I sometimes...

11. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    PrisonrNurs replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    OK here's another one that got the ER roaring. I had a patient come in (the second time) with abdominal pain. He was driven in by a friend. Both are big burly roughnecks. The friend came in to visit...

12. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    PrisonrNurs replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    Every once in a while an inmate who is a patient in our ER threatens to "call my lawyer!" if he doesn't get what he wants, like morphine instead of Toradol. To his lawyer threat I say, "The same...

13. Violation of the Nurse Practice Act?

    PrisonrNurs posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, In our facility we do a lot of QA's on our charts. Anytime there is a discrepency, we have to go in and correct them. Most are very minor...a discrepency when a patient leaves the...

14. Are late entires a violation of the Nurse Practice Act?

    PrisonrNurs posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Hello everyone, In our facility we do a lot of QA's on our charts. Anytime there is a discrepency, we have to go in and correct them. Most are very minor...a discrepency when a patient leaves the...

15. Are you paranoid yet?

    PrisonrNurs replied to GlowBear500's topic in Correctional

    No, not paranoid or even afraid in our facility. Some days I swear, this isn't a prison, it's a glorified day-care center! I'm not worried about a physical assault, but I am worried about the threat...