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No lie. I even checked his driver's license. This patient's name was...MAD BOMBER! I can just imagine him being paged in a major airport. "MAD BOMBER. PLEASE REPORT TO TERMINAL 14. YOUR PLANE IS BOARDING."

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. This is probably consistent across the board, but t...

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 an ass of myself and try to debate the BoN on som...

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 rude, our director filed a formal complaint and the...

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 for 5 years, and throughout that time I've had 6 cl...

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 that day. MD did a CPK. What was it? 250,000!!!!

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 resolved that situation (thanks to the Governor) but wa...

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. After "interrogating" him, he finally admitted th...

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 there was no wrong-doing on my part, yet the BoN drew...

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 BoN! There seems to be a clear bias on the BoN's ...

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 wonder how she became a nurse. She expresses noth...

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 and asked me if we knew what was wrong. He jokingly...

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 lawyer who tried to keep you out of jail?" It works e...

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 ER, but some are more important, like not charting t...

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 ER, but some are more important, like not charting t...

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 of law suit. Inmates will do anything to cause t...

I'm not posting this asking for advice (although any you give me would be most welcome) I'm posting this to VENT my anger! The other day I was called into a meeting with my supervisor and Chief of Security (COS) present. There was some concern that t...

Hello everyone, This is an update to my "accused of being a sexual deviant" thread I posted about a month ago. Here is the post URL if you're interested: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/accused-being-sexual-deviant-142249.html?highlight=sexual+devian...

We had a cardiac patient who started going downhill fast. The Dr. ordered him transferred out, and had us set up a dopamine drip. We were not to start it unless his heart started to fail. It was set up and everything was ready. All that was left ...

Actually, all the complaints are unrelated. Matter of fact, one inmate made a complaint while he was in a detention cell, away from the other inmates. lol he said I gave him two red pills which made him pass out, and while he was unconscious, I snuck...

You're right, Undecided. The best course of action would be to refer them to the MD where many of the cases go. What's sad is that these types of cases are very common, from groin rashes to testicular cancer. Even worse, when an inmate has somethi...

Thanks for your reply Marylou. Yes, in the cases that were investigated, the witnesses did back me up. An internal investigation was conducted in all the cases, and they were all found to be false. In two of the four cases, I didn't even have to give...

HA! HA! HA! I had to laugh when I read this thread! In my 2.5 years as a prison nurse, I've been threatened with a law suit at least 14 times, been "charged" with RAPE 4 times and have been presented with at least 2 subponeas. Inmates are perhaps the...

LOL I have a friend I work with...lovable and sweet, but also kina goofy. She has two sons. The oldest is named Jhett and the youngest is named Gryffin. These are the most unusual names I've heard.

I've been working in our ER for nearly a year, and in lieu of recent events, was prompted to open this thread. I am the only male nurse in, not just the ER but in the entire hospital. The nurses I work with are very good at what they do, save for one...